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Creation of PDF files using PDF Studio and PDF printer driver

Q: If I want to make a PDF of a document that's in another file format, how can I do it with PDF Studio?

A: PDF Studio can create PDF documents on the fly by opening the following file format / support and automatically converting them to PDF:
  • Scan paper documents into PDF

  • Convert Images (gif, png, jpeg, tiff format) to PDF

  • Convert Word documents (.doc and .docx) to PDF

  • Convert Text documents (.txt) to PDF

PDF Studio is also integrated with Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) and it is possible to convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF using Google Drive's conversion services. All this can be done without leaving PDF Studio. You can upload documents to your Google Drive account and then open the documents as PDF in PDF Studio. Choose "Open As PDF" in the right-click menu (CTRL + click in Mac) after selecting a file in the Google Drive File Manager.


PDF Studio does not provide a PDF printer driver like Adobe does. In general, we found that this is not needed needed anymore these days as most business applications include a Save As PDF function.

On Mac,
  • Users can convert any document to PDF from the Print dialog, by choosing the option to save a document as PDF.

On Windows,
  • Office 2010 comes with a "Save As PDF" function in each application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • For Office 2007, Microsoft distributes a free add-in to Save As PDF.

On Linux,

  • Print to PDF using cups-pdf.
  • Use Openoffice Writer to export files as PDF.

To print any documents to PDF, there a number of free PDF printer drivers, like CutePDF Writer, available for download. Once installed, these printer drivers will show under the list of printers in your print dialog, allowing you to save any file or web page to PDF.