List of virtual printer software explained

The following is a list of Wikipedia articles relating to virtual printer software:

Free software

The following are distributed under free software licences:

• CC PDF Converter (discontinued) – A Ghostscript-based virtual printer.
• cups-pdf – An open source Ghostscript-based virtual printer that can be shared with Windows users over the LAN. CUPS
• Ghostscript – A command-line library for creation of PostScript and PDF files.
• RedMon – Redirects a special printer port to the standard input of another program

Freeware

The following are proprietary software but free of charge:

Virtual PDF printers

Virtual PDF printers for Microsoft Windows:

• Bullzip PDF Printer – there is a free version
• CutePDF
• DoPDF – this is a simplified version of NovaPDF
• PDFCreator – a Ghostscript-based virtual printer for Microsoft Windows, with user interface for advanced options (security settings, combining multiple documents, etc.).
• PrimoPDF
• Print To PDF - ships with Windows 10 and 11
• PDF24 Creator – a free virtual PDF printer for Microsoft Windows, with user interface and additional tools like merging, splitting, compressing and assembling PDF files.

Commercial

• Adobe Acrobat – Adobe System's commercial PDF authoring suite includes Adobe Distiller, a virtual printer for converting documents to PDF files. Adobe Distiller is not included with the free-to-use Adobe Reader product.

Virtual printers

Virtual printers for Microsoft Windows:

• Microsoft Office Document Image Writer – Included in Microsoft Office Professional allowing documents to be saved in TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format. MODI is only supported in 32 bit Windows' versions.
• Universal Document Converter – Creating PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PCX, DCX and BMP files. Free version adds watermark.

Notes

1.This software has risk of installing potentially unwanted programs. For more information, refer to its main article.