Windows Package Manager (Winget) Installation¶

PDFCreator can be installed using Winget.

The install command can be used to install all PDFCreator editions.

PDFCreator Free Sample:

winget install PDFCreator-Free

Note

The winget install command provides a silent installation by default.

If an interactive setup is necessary, please use the --interactive flag.

Use the following command to install a specific version of PDFCreator:

winget install <package-id> --version <version-number>

where:

--version is a flag that enables you to specify an exact version to install. If the flag is not specified, Winget will install the latest stable version of the package.
<package-id> is the package identifier of the product to be installed.
<version-number> is the version number (e.g 5.2.0).

Please refer to Edition Names for a list of the editions and their respective package identifiers

Business Editions¶

When using Winget to install the business editions of PDFCreator, the DeferLicenseCheck command line parameter (see Setup Command Line Parameters) is automatically used by Winget. This means that the user is only prompted for a license activation once PDFCreator is started for the first time after an install or update.

Attention

If PDFCreator is installed/updated using Winget and a license key is provided (although not necessary for the installation), the license key will be saved to registry. During startup, PDFCreator will attempt to get a license activation with the (newest) license key in registry.

Custom Parameters¶

To run the installer with custom command line parameters, the --custom flag can be used.

winget install <package-id> --custom "<params>"

where:

<params> is a placeholder for a list of custom command line parameters separated by a whitespace
<package-id> is the package identifier of the product to be installed.

Warning

Please note that the list of custom command line parameters is wrapped by double quotation marks.

For example, in the following line the Desktop icons are disabled and the language of the software is set to German:

winget install <package-id> --custom "/NoIcons /Lang=de"

Attention

PDFCreator Server utilizes a Windows service to convert documents.

For security reasons, we strongly recommend creating a dedicated user account for this service.

This user account should have the following permissions:

Write access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Write access to the Windows temp folder %WINDIR%\Temp.
The ability to establish network connections to license.pdfforge.org

Please refer to the PDFCreator Server Configuration page for more information on installing PDFCreator Server .

Edition Names¶

Edition	ID
PDFCreator Free	PDFCreator-Free
PDFCreator Professional	PDFCreator-Professional
PDFCreator Terminal Server	PDFCreator-Terminal-Server
PDFCreator Server	PDFCreator-Server