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Windows On Windows, the easiest way to create a PDF is to use a PDF printer driver. These programs create a virtual printer that can be selected while printing, allowing you to create PDFs from any program that has print functionality. Some of the more common printer drivers are: * *PDFCreator*, a free (licensed under the GNU GPL) printer driver that allows you to create PDFs, postscript files, and images (e.g. PNG and TIFF, among others). * *Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer* and *Adobe Acrobat Distiller*, two printer drivers that come with Adobe products and may already be installed on your computer.

Use PDFCreator? But it's not portable I guess?

What is a terminal server? Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems. You will find, that this what most people understand as pdf writer or creater can not be made portable.

This is in any case a printer (thought it prints to a file) which has to be installed on your system. Unless you can make somethink like it will install itself on demand and deinstall when closing, then the pfd creating software can not be portable. Sure there can be a way like open something in a ceratin software and this software has build in pdf export for the files opened in it.

This would be OO for example. Otherwise one can copy - paste something into an open document in one of those software like OO and export it into pdf. The original poster wanted to print web pages as pdf files. As you know that would mean having a pdf print driver, which at this time can not be made portable. Even if a driver could be made portable, then all it could do is print the entire page or selection. And we all know that when we select content to print off a web page that sometimes we get unwanted content and that the page layout can not be controlled very well. If the web pages are firstly saved to disk, they can, as already pointed out, be imported into Open Office for editing and exported as a pdf.

Another option to Open Office is portable Tomahawk which can be downloaded off the Softpedia web site - about 5mb installed. However it is not completely portable in that there are some registry entries made but it is much faster than Open Office, so if anyone is not too concerned about the registry entries then it could be a consideration.

Perhaps someone could make a portable launcher for it. I have just made my install portable with JauntePE. I've tried countless options to make PDF's, and PDFCreator was only one of the PDF-printer* options.

I also tried DocPrinter, PDF995, to name but a few. My favourite (throug trial and error) is CutePDF, as it is the simplest and best in terms of quality (of the final PDF). You can of course also set the image's dpi quality in the printer's options under the Control Panel. I would use PDFCreator if it gave me the same quality, as it is more in line with the open source movement, although CutePDF is also free. I am a graphic designer, so quality is the one final decision-making factor. And it doesn't make larger files compared to similar programs.

While most web pages are difficult to print as we would like it, CutePDF prints it as the system would print it on any other printer, so while not portable, it would in fact be what the original poster was looking for, if also considering that none of the above answers points to true portable apps. I appreciate that, which is why I'm resigned to the fact of having to install at least one program on every PC I use at home/work (permissions withstanding). It's just my personal preference, I like having a PDF printer. Obviously if I'm on a 'foreign' PC then I have to get a little more creative, but I can't say that it's ever been an issue.

Given the number of programs that I have to install now versus say 5 years ago, I'm not complaining. I think I'm down to about 3 or 4 now, and of those, you can't practically speaking NOT have a resident anti-virus solution, so one of those (just like the PDF printer) is a given (for me). EDIT: I just found this post I made a while back about. I mention PDFCreator. Ben 10 Omniverse2 Download For Wii. Most people don't need one.

About 95% of what people need PDF creation for is for Word or other office docs, which OpenOffice.org does nicely. A few more people need it for Firefox, which there are some solutions available. So we're working it from that angle. Personally, I never use a PDF printer anymore.

I used to way back in the day when I used MS Office. But now that I use OpenOffice.org, I never need it. I never save web pages to PDFs (HTML is just fine). So let's drop the talk of PDF printers and focus on portable stuff. Now I'm confused. It says here that print to pdf programs install a printer driver that just prints to a pdf file - and 'all' printer drivers need admin rights - hence cannot be portable in the sense of working from a flash drive without admin rights on the host machine.

OK - I heard that. But then, how can OpenOffice Portable print its own files to pdf without having admin rights? And how come 7-pdf (shareware version)- claims (in German) that it is portable. Heck it's not so expensive, I'd be happy to take the risk and try it - except I have had a bad experience with German-language spam (real spam, not post purchase nagging) as a result of downloading a (paid-for) German program, so I won't risk it from a German company I've never heard of). Does the assurance that you *must* have admin rights mean that 7-pdf won't really work fully portably? That it must be a scam? Or have they found a way round the problem?

In any case, how does OpenOffice get away with it? Please put me out of my misery and explain? A PDF add-on program, that allows all programs (like MS Office) to be able to create PDFs directly is actually done as a virtual printer. It installs a virtual printer at the OS level and then every app that can print can create a PDF instead of a printout. This is the way most PDF apps work. The disadvantage is, since it is a driver, it requires admin rights.

The advantage is, it works with every app with every file format. OpenOffice.org includes the ability to *directly* create a PDF from anything within OpenOffice.org including documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Since it's a part of the app itself and requires no driver, it'll work everywhere. The disadvantage is, it only works with files you can open in OpenOffice.org. Luckily, this fulfills probably 90% or more of all user's PDF needs. 7-PDF is a third type of app. A standalone app that can directly read in a file and create a PDF from it.

The advantage is that it isn't a driver, so it'll work everywhere. The disadvantage is that it has to be able to read and interpret every kind of file itself. So it's only as good as its file format interpreters. I haven't used 7-PDF itself, but my experience with other products of this nature has shown that, generally, they only work for simple stuff and complex stuff winds up with formatting issues. That said, I'd be curious about experiences with 7-PDF as I haven't looked at apps of that type in quite some time.

Hi, I have read the whole thread and I see there are -some apps that can convert particular formats to PDF and can be portable (OpenOffice, XnView, various FF plugins.) -there are virtual printers that print to PDF - they can convert anything, but are not portable (except the whole portable OS solution with a Linux distro). There is another possibility - not perfect, because it's not working on any Windows computer, but close to the virtual PDF printer solution. Computer with Office installed should have the Misrosoft Office Document Image Writer (MSODIW), which is virtual printer able to print to multipage TIF files. The TIF can be converted to PDF by XnView. Advantage: This way you can convert any file that can be printed, just like with a virtual PDF printer. Disadvantages: -No colors, MSODIW can produce only BW output. -Poor quality of graphics - max 300 dpi BW, dithering of grey levels.

-Not really available on any computer, depends on MS Office. So with the shortcomings in mind, it is possible to use this method if you have installed portable XnView, and I'm sure it could be possible to automate the process somehow with a script.

This is not portable but what it does do well is: That All links Work!!!!!! (its free) and it also integrates into MS word (as a tab/menu ETC) down side is you need to install ghost script and when you print it mucks you around a bit with too much pop-up boxes and options.then takes a while. But for the links that work 100% of the time i have to use it. So i think it would be cool if a portable pdf creator of some description. (even if it is not practically possible to have it function as a windows printer) could none the less integrate automatically into the most common programs (top 10 or what ever) this would be almost as good and would serve the majority. (also another idea would be for the portable app to register a printer when you start it up then remove it when you close down the application. This way the app could be portable as im sure people dont move their 'portable apps' while they are using them LOL).

Ok everyone who is using the 'can't' word. I knows there's lots of different types of drivers, but I don't get all the nuances and repercussions.

All I know is that MS & Apple are a PITA! I'm win7 AT LEAST until I have native touchy-stroky-hardware. I adore native virtualisation, and am experimenting with registry and software magic using differencing disks instead of the poxy (typo?) sysRestore. Anyway, drivers, for devices.

I use a portable, virtual cd drive. Check out cdemu, it's beautiful, and I don't understand why apple & co can't do something similar, ie why all apps can't be portable. For trendy devwhizzkids have a peek @. I'm not a genius or a dev, so all I can do is fiddle, and imagine. Is there a diff between (v)cd-drives, and their drivers, and (v.pdf)printer devices, and their drivers?!

Anything is possible. A driver means it requires admin rights. On Windows, to install a driver, you need admin rights.

While it makes sense in the context of certain system utilities in a portable fashion, it doesn't really make sense just to print to a PDF when the main things you'd want to PDF you can already 'print' to a PDF (aka export) just using LibreOffice. Spreadsheets, documents, presentations, all can be saved as a PDF right from LibreOffice.

No drivers or admin rights required. The only real reason for the hacky print to PDF drivers was really Microsoft Office. And if you're using Microsoft Office on your PC and have the admin rights required to run a PDF print driver. Just install it.