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A Powerful PDF Maker—PDF Creator

A Powerful PDF Maker—PDF Creator

Maybe you need to convert multiple kinds of file formats to PDF document everyday. Do you have a helpful handy tool? If not, please choose VeryPDF PDF Creator which is a virtual printer designed for you to create PDF document from any kinds of printable documents, including file formats of MS Office, OpenOffice, TXT, HTML, Webpage, AutoCAD, various image formats, etc. It is also a good tool for editing PDF description, encrypting PDF document, emailing created PDF, etc.

In this article, you will see how to use PDF Creator to create PDF document. Before knowing how it works, you need to download and install it on your computer by following the installation wizard. In the end of the installation, you will be reminded whether to set this virtual printer as default printer. Of course, you are recommended to choose Yes if you need to create PDF document often. Please see the introduction for this application in below contents.

Set parameters

You will not see PDF Creator in your computer disk because it locates in Printers and Faxes folder. Please find it, right click the printer and click Properties—Printing Preferences to open the window which contains ten tabs. Then you can set different parameters in each tab.

Page Setup

In this tab, you can customize PDF page size, page margin, page orientation, PDF graphic resolution, etc. according to your needs.

set PDF page

Figure 1

Compression

In this tab, you can compress color, grayscale or Monochrome image for created PDF document with different kinds of compression methods to reduce the PDF size.

compress PDF

Figure 2

Doc Info

In this tab, you can choose the version for output PDF document for suite different PDF reader or viewer. You can also edit PDF description like Title, Subject, Author, etc.

edit PDF description

Figure 3

Save as

In this tab, you can choose the output location for target files if you want to create PDF documents in batches. You can also the rename methods. For viewing the target file at the first time when the conversion is over, please check the option View after creation.

save PDF in batches

Figure 4

Font Embedding

You can add all the fonts appear in source file in this tab so that the created PDF document can be successfully read in any PDF viewer or any computer.

embed font

Figure 5

Security

In this tab, you can choose to encrypt PDF by adding open password to protect the document from being opened freely or set permissions for protecting the document from being modified, copied, printed, etc. The encryption level can be set as 40 or 128-bit.

encrypt PDF

Figure 6

Email

This tab enables you to email the created PDF document to your friends, families, etc. via SMTP server. You just need to input the address of recipients, Outgoing SMTP Server, your authentication user name and password. Then check Email after creation in Save as tab shown in Figure 4, this function will be activated.

email PDF

Figure 7

Then please click OK button. When you want to create PDF document, you just need to print the document to PDF Creator, then the conversion will be done. There are also Pro version and COM version of PDF Creator for your requirements. For more information, please visit its homepage.

A Powerful PDF Editing Tool—Advanced PDF Tools

A Powerful PDF Editing Tool—Advanced PDF Tools

As we all know that there are different kinds of PDF descriptions in one PDF document like tile, subject, author, creator, producer, password, etc. If you want to edit or change these information, you may need to open the PDF document and change them one by one. But if you have VeryPDF Advanced PDF Tools installed on your computer, you will be able to make this work with high quality and efficiency.

Advanced PDF Tools is able to edit PDF description, set Open action for the edited PDF document, modify the page size, optimize PDF by removing metadata, javascript, bookmark, etc., compress image, customize new description, etc. The batch process mode allows you to edit PDF property fast one time.

If you need to use this application, please download it via clicking here. Just by double clicking the installer and following with the installation wizard, you will be easily finish the installation process. Then you can open Start menu or double click the application icon to launch Advance PDF Tools. You will see a tab control in the interface and the default one is Summary tab which is shown in Figure 1.

summary tab of Advanced PDF Tools

Figure 1

Now what you need to do is to add PDF document into the application. You can click Open button to open file picker window and choose document from it or you can directly drag the file you need and drop into the file list.

In this tab, you can edit different properties for input PDF document like title, subject, author, keywords, etc. When you want to edit the description, you just need to check the box before each description, input the new description and then click Change button to save the new one.

By clicking Open action tab, you can edit the PDF Open action like initial view, hiding menu bar, hiding tool bar, resizing window to initial page, etc. Please see Open action tab in Figure 2.

Open action tab of Advanced PDF Tools

Figure 2

If you want to set the page options like page rotation, page size, page scale, page range, etc. for newly created PDF document, please click on Pages tab and then edit each option in it according to your needs. Please see the tab in Figure 3.

Pages tab of Advanced PDF Tools

Figure 3

If you want to optimize PDF document to reduce its file size, you can choose to remove its information like metadata, javascript, bookmark, private data, etc. in Optimize tab which is shown in Figure 4 or compress different format of images in input PDF document with multiple supplied compression methods in Image tab which is shown in Figure 5.

 Optimize tab of Advanced PDF Tools

Figure 4

Image tab of Advanced PDF Tools

Figure 5

If the original description is not enough, you can customize new one (s) in Custom fields tab shown in Figure 6. You just need to add the key name and key value in related box.

image

Figure 6

If you have finished in editing each kind of option, please click Change button and then all the changes will be saved in the input PDF document. For knowing more details about Advanced PDF Tools, please enter the homepage of the application.