My print driver did not show any registration after activating 3x, rebooting…. Do you have any fixes??

#92 … read up a bit more on this. Jo #77 is right. While you may be able to avoid the toolbar (and one website even put in the batch file command for a clean install) I would stay totally away from PDFCreator and wait for an open source fork of the project.

The surprising thing is that SourceForge itself has really done nothing about this (it is pointed out in their discussion). They are losing a lot of good will and trust.

So far I have about 5 urls about this from blogs and malware discussions and 5 threads on PDFForge and 2 on SourceForge and I just put in a post on Web of Trust with the links.

Freeware-wise .. CutePDF Writer seems to be a recommended alternative. “FREE for commercial and non-commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads!” And other good alternatives were mentioned above.

If you have the GAOTD NovaPDF Lite download today .. that should cover you for awhile. This was a good one, imho.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

#92 .. this PDF Creator toolbar question is hotly discussed at pdfforge. You can put in something like

“yahoo toolbar” pdfcreator

into Google and find the threads at pdfforge fairly easily .. one leads to another as well and they are March and April, 2009.

http://www.pdfforge.org/node/2598
Automatic Yahoo toolbar install? Bye PDFcreator

http://www.pdfforge.org/node/2540
pdfforge Toolbar – browser hijack to vmn.net

Apparently the behaviour changed negatively in a recent release, and a simple untick (which itself should not be there, opt-in not opt-out is correct if there is to be anything, which is dubious. See the recent discussions about Comodo CIS and Softpedia’s notice of adware and also the excellent BillP comment from Winpatrol about these intrusive and aggressive toolbars) does not always work .. e.g. some installs are remote and/or silent and the developer did not handle that right.

All this is quite a mess, even if you can do a simple untick and it works, this does not belong as an opt-out on an open source. Read the threads and decide. For myself, I probably will wait and see if it gets 100% sorted out, reading the threads and seeing if the developer apologizes and fixes the problem.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

Combine a pdf printer with a good fast freeware pdf reader such as the Foxit reader and you have a wonderful way to save such things as webpage articles, photos, data, etc to pdf files and something to use to read them that doesn’t eat much memory, is able to very quickly open the pdf files, and makes using pdf files ENJOYABLE! I used to hate pdf format back when I had to tolerate big slow memory hog adobe reader, and once I discovered Foxit reader and other fast freeware pdf readers and virtual pdf printers, I came to love pdf files!

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http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/download.html
http://www.visagesoft.com/products/pdfreader/

Freeware PDF creators

http://www.tinypdf.com/index.html
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator