momostarsky / clawPDF

Open Source virtual PDF printer for Windows // Print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text

clawPDF // PDFCreator 2.3 fork

Yet another PDF Printer? Yes! This PDF Printer has the intention to be completely open source.

Open Source virtual PDF printer for Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 2008 / R2 / 2016 / 2019
Print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text

Download

https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawPDF/releases/download/0.8.4/clawPDF_0.8.4_setup.msi

Tested under

• Windows Server 2016 RDS/Terminalserver
• Windows 10 x32/x64
• Windows 8 x32/x64
• Windows 7 x32/x64

Changelog

v0.8.4 (2019.06.11)

• [bugfix] unicode filename support (thx to daooze for bugreport)

v0.8.3 (2019.05.31)

• [bugfix] starts under System-Account
• [cleanup] migrated code from c++ to c#
• [update] ghostscript 9.27
• [bugfix] author metadata

v0.8.01 (2019.02.10)

• [bugfix] performance boost for RDS environments

v0.8.0 (2019.02.10)

• initial version

Features

• print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text
• 24 languages
• many settings
• easy to use
• easy to deploy (MSI-Installer)
• no adware, spyware, nagware
• ...

Requirements

• .Net Framework 4.5.2+

Screenshot

Roadmap

• keep ghostscript up to date (continuous process)
• add more features
• remove DataStorage.dll, DynamicTranslator.dll and TrueTypeFontInfo.dll
• rewrite group policy settings
• batch printing

Build

• Visual Studio 2019

Third-party

clawPDF uses the following licensed software or parts of the source code:

• main code: PDFCreator 2.3 (https://github.com/pdfforge/PDFCreator), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• PDF library: iTextSharp 5.5.13 (https://github.com/itext/itextsharp), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• logging: Nlog 4.5.11 (https://github.com/NLog/NLog), licensed under BSD 3-Clause.
• parts of the ghostscript control: PdfScribe 1.0.6 (https://github.com/stchan/PdfScribe), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• redirection Port Monitor: clawmon (https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawmon), licensed under GPL v2 license.
• Postscript Printer Drivers: Microsoft Postscript Printer Driver V3 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/print/microsoft-postscript-printer-driver), copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
• Postscript and PDF interpreter/renderer: Ghostscript 9.27 (https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• SystemWrapper 0.25.0.186 (https://github.com/jozefizso/SystemWrapper), licensed under Microsoft Public license.
• ftplib 1.0.1.1 (https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=ftplib), licensed under MIT license.
• DataStorage.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
• DynamicTranslator.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
• TrueTypeFontInfo.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
• appbar_save (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
• appbar_cogs (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
• appbar_page_file_pdf (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

License

clawPDF is licensed under AGPL v3 license
Copyright (C) 2019 // Andrew Hess // clawSoft