Differences between PDFCreator and PDFCreator Server

New Features

• You can share PDFCreator Server printers in your network, enabling other users to print to them without a PDFCreator installation.

• PDFCreator Server enables centralized management of settings for all users.

• You can convert more files, PDFCreator is not built for lots of files.

• It is faster than PDFCreator and you can use multiple threads to convert files, making it even faster!

• You can save all converted files to a central location.

Unavailable Features

PDFCreator Server is a Windows service application, it converts files automatically without any user interaction. Because of this, some features work differently than in PDFCreator.

• You can not choose a location to save the file to during the conversion, the files are always saved to a predefined directory using the settings from the queue assigned to the printer.

• Created files can not be automatically opened in a viewer (Open File) or an email-client (Email (Desktop)).

• Required passwords need to be set and saved in the settings, it is not possible to set them during the conversion.

• Explorer context menu integration is unavailable.

Table of Contents

• PDFCreator
• PDFCreator Server
  • Introduction
  • Differences between PDFCreator and PDFCreator Server
  • Installing and Configuring PDFCreator Server
  • Setup Command Line Parameters
  • PDFCreator Server Settings
  • Performance Test
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • End User’s Software License Agreement
  • Service Configuration
• Internal License Server (ILS)
• HotFolder
• Support PDFCreator