List of virtual printer software

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

Free software[edit]

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

The following are proprietary software but free of charge:

Virtual PDF printers for Microsoft Windows:

Bullzip PDF Printer^[PUP] – there is a free version
CutePDF^[PUP]
DoPDF – this is a simplified version of NovaPDF
PDFCreator^[PUP] – a Ghostscript-based virtual printer for Microsoft Windows, with user interface for advanced options (security settings, combining multiple documents, etc.).
PrimoPDF^[PUP]
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.

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 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.

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