PDFCreator Help
 
 

General Settings

The General Settings page sets the basic properties that the entire PDFCreator application will use.

Print Test Page: Creates a sample PDF to test the PDFCreator printer and drivers. This allows the user to make a PDF without having to go into another program to test the application. This is especially useful when troubleshooting PDFCreator on your system.

Processpriority: The process priority determines how much of your computer's processing power will go into creating the PDF when you go to print. If changed, the speed at which PDFCreator creates the new documents will increase or decrease. This can be useful on systems with low resources.

No processing at startup: When you use this setting, PDFCreator will start without processing any documents. You can manually start processing by going to the Document menu and selecting Print or by unchecking the Printer Stop option in the Printer menu. The setting is useful if you want collect some files first, then combine the files into one and create a pdf.

No Confirmation on Temporary Changing to Default Printer: Occasionally, PDFCreator is required to be the default printer to perform some tasks. When checked, PDFCreator automatically changes itself to the default printer temporarily to complete the task. When not checked, PDFCreator will ask each time it is needed.

Method to send an email: This option allows the user to set the method in which PDFCreator sends the document to email.
Properties:
Automatic - PDFCreator detects the mail client and chooses the best method. (Default)
MAPI interface - PDFCreator uses the MAPI interface.
Using sendmail.dll - PDFCreator uses the "Send To/Mail Recipient" shell extension.

Associate PDFCreator with Postscript Files: When this is clicked, PDFCreator becomes the default application for opening Postscript (.ps) files in Windows. Do not click this if you have another program that you wish to be the default instead.

Frame color of the options dialog: With this setting you can change the colors of the frames in the options dialog. This can be helpful for people with sensitive eyes or people with poor eyesight.
Properties:
1 - Red and blue gradient (Default)
2 - Simple red and blue color

Show an animation during the process: This setting enables the user to disable the animation during the process of creating a PDF or bitmap file. The animation is on by default.
Properties:
0 - show no animation
1 - show an animation (Default)

Integrate PDFCreator into Shell: When this button is clicked, PDFCreator integrates itself with the Windows shell. When you right-click on selected documents in Windows Explorer a new menu item will appear called "Create PDF with PDFCreator". This enables the user to quickly convert documents to PDF without having to open the document. Note that this functionality requires PDFCreator to be temporarily assigned the default printer status.

Remove Shell Integration: When clicked, removes the PDFCreator shell integration described above.

Install  PDFCreator Browser Add On: Installs the PDFCreator Browser Add On to convert web pages to pdf with a single click. It additionally offers you to efficiently search the web.

Update check: Allows to automatically check for updates. You will then be informed about new versions of PDFCreator. You can set the interval to Never, Once a day, Once  and Once a month. You can immediately check for updates by clicking Check now.