PdfScribe is a PDF virtual printer. Check the releases page for this project to download a prebuilt MSI package.
- 64-bit Windows Vista or later
- .NET Framework 4.0 or later
Visual Studio 2017, Wix 3.11, and Votive 2017 are required to build PdfScribe.
PdfScribe links to, and distributes the following third party components:
- Microsoft Postscript Printer Driver (V3)
- Ghostscript (64-bit)
- Redmon 1.9 (64-bit)
Ghostscript is AGPL (more restrictive than GPLv3), so PdfScribe is bound by that license.
In the application config file (PdfScribe.exe.config), there are the following settings in the "applicationSettings" element:
- AskUserForOutputFilename - set value to true if you want PdfScribe to ask the user where to save the PDF.
- OutputFile - if there is a constant filename you want the PDF to be saved to, set its value here. Environment variables can be used. PdfScribe will overwrite each time. This setting is ignored if AskUserForOutputFilename is set to true.
- OpenAfterCreating - set value to true if you want the PDF automatically opened with the default viewer. This setting is ignored if the file extension is not .PDF
- Allow auto-generated filenames with sequence numbers if the user doesn't want to overwrite (ex: OUTPUT-001.PDF, OUTPUT-002.PDF, etc)
- Allow file appending if OutputFile setting is used.
- GUI for configuration
- Allow selection of page sizes other than default
- Watermarking output