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Convert Word to TIFF

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Easily convert Word to TIFF with just a few clicks of the mouse!

As simple as printing, both our TIFF Image Printer and Raster Image Printer work with any Windows® application so you can quickly convert Word to TIFF in seconds.

Why Convert Word to TIFF?

There are several reasons to convert Word to TIFF images. One is to be able to share the file easily. Another is to protect the information in your Word files. TIFF images are very difficult to alter and can be viewed by virtually anyone. TIFF is a common format for faxing, and is often used in document imaging, document archiving and eDiscovery software.

How to Convert Word to TIFF

Below, we are converting a Word document to TIFF using the TIFF Image Printer. If you have the Raster Image Printer, your desktop icon will be a different color but the steps are the same.

You will see the TIFF Image Printer dashboard icon on your desktop after installing TIFF Image Printer on your computer. It does not need to be open to create TIFF images, but is the first place to go after installing if you need to find help or activate your license.

The dashboard is a central place to access printer settings, creating and editing custom printer profiles, video tutorial and help resources as well as license activation and information.

Launch-Dashboard

Open and Print Your Word Document

After installing and licensing, the first step is to open your document in Microsoft® Word.

Once open, the next step is to print the file. This can be a print icon or through File-Print from the application menu.

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Microsoft Word will go to the Print view. From here, choose TIFF Image Printer 12 or Raster Image Printer 12 from the list of printers. Click the the Print button to send the file to our printer to convert it from Word to TIFF.

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Setting Name and Location for Your TIFF Image

A Save File prompt appears so you can choose where to save your new TIFF image. The default location is your Documents folder.

The Filename field will show a name for your TIFF image using the original document name when possible. Enter a different name for your PDF file here if you want.

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Choosing the Format of Your TIFF Image

Next, in the Save as type drop box, select the printer profile that you want to use to create your TIFF Image. For basic TIFF conversion we recommend starting with the Color Optimized TIFF profile if you are not sure.

A printer profile is a collection of settings controlling the image output created by the printer. TIFF Image Printer and Raster Image Printer both include several profiles for creating common TIFF formats, such as color, black and white, and faxable. To create custom profiles, see the the Profile Manager available from the Image Printer Dashboard

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Creating Your TIFF Image

The last step is to click Save to create your TIFF image.

Click Save to create the TIFF file from your Word document

As easy as that and you have a TIFF image from your Microsoft® Word document.

Want to try it out? We offer a free trial for you to do just that. Plus the PEERNET Team is here to answer any questions during your trial.

Download the TIFF Image Printer trial to try it yourself if you are only looking for TIFF images. If you think you may need to create JPEG, PDF, and other image types as well as TIFF images, have a look at the Raster Image Printer trial.

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Convert PDF to TIFF with TIFF Image Printer

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If you need to convert PDF to TIFF , the TIFF Image Printer can help you do that in just a few clicks!

As easy as printing, with the TIFF Image Printer you can quickly convert PDF to TIFF in seconds. It works with any Windows® application which will make it the PDF to TIFF converter you will turn to time and again.

Why Convert PDF to TIFF?

Convert PDF to TIFF images to protect your PDF documents from unwanted copying or changes. TIFF images are very difficult to alter and can be viewed by virtually anyone. TIFF is a common format for faxing, and is often used in document imaging, document archiving and eDiscovery software.

How to Convert PDF to TIFF

After installing TIFF Image Printer onto your computer, you will see the TIFF Image Printer dashboard icon on your desktop. The dashboard is a hub for your license information, setting printer settings, creating and editing printer profiles, and access to video tutorials and other help resources.

Launch TIFF Image Printer Dashboard

Open And Print Your PDF File

Open the PDF file you want to convert. This can be Adobe® Reader or any other PDF viewer software that can print PDF files.

When you have the file open, the next step is to print the file. This can be a print icon or through File-Print from the application menu.

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In the Print dialog, choose TIFF Image Printer 12 from the list of printers and then click the Print button. This sends the file to our printer to convert the PDF to TIFF.

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Choose Where to Save Your TIFF Image

A Save File prompt appears so you can choose where to save your new TIFF image. The default location is your Documents folder.

The Filename field will show a name for your TIFF image using the original document name when possible. Enter a different name for your PDF file here if you want.

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Select Your TIFF Image Format

Next, in the Save as type drop box, select the printer profile that you want applied to your output TIFF Image. For basic TIFF conversion we recommend the Color Optimized TIFF profile.

A printer profile is a collection of settings controlling the image output created by the printer. TIFF Image Printer includes several profiles for creating common TIFF formats, such as color, black and white, and faxable. To create custom profiles, see the the Profile Manager available from the TIFF Image Printer Dashboard.

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Save Your TIFF Image

The last step is to click Save to create your TIFF image.

Click Save to create the TIFF file from your PDF

And there you go. You have now successfully converted your PDF file to a TIFF image, and all as easily as printing the file.

PDF to TIFF Using PDF Creator Plus

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While PDF is a very popular format for file sharing, there are still times when you need to convert PDF files to TIFF images. TIFF images are historically popular with insurance and legal companies, and the go-to format in document archiving and e-Discovery systems, as well as common format for faxing documents.

Converting a PDF file to a TIFF creates a file with each page as a picture in the file. This can help protect the file as it makes it very hard to alter the content. Virtually anyone can open and view a TIFF image. Most computers and mobile devices include image viewing software capable of opening and displaying TIFF images.

Convert a PDF to TIFF Image

To convert a PDF file into a TIFF image, we first have to load the PDF file into the PDF Creator Plus builder application. The builder application holds a collection of pages we then use to create the TIFF image. This collection of pages is a PDF Creator Plus project.

Open the PDF File

Begin by opening a File Explorer window and finding the PDF file you want to make into a TIFF image. Right-click the PDF file and choose Open With – PDF Creator Plus from the context menu.

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This will open the builder application and load a copy of the pages from the PDF file into the PDF Creator Plus application. This leaves the original PDF file intact, no need to worry about overwriting it.

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Convert your PDF to TIFF

Now that the pages from your PDF are loaded in PDF Creator Plus, it’s time to create your TIFF file. Click the Create TIFF button or select File – Create TIFF from the menu.

In the Create File window, enter the name of the new TIFF file and choose its location. There are Image Options here to configure the color and resolution of your TIFF image.

If your PDF file has multiple pages, this is also where you can choose the format of the TIFF file. Like a PDF file, a TIFF image can contain multiple pages. Leave the Mulitpage option checked to create this type of TIFF image. If you uncheck it, you will get a single TIFF image created for each page of your PDF file.

The final section, Actions allows you to automatically open the TIFF file, or the folder containing the file, after your TIFF is created.

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Press the Save button to create your TIFF file. A progress dialog appears while we create your TIFF, and will close when complete.

That’s how easy it is to create TIFF files from a PDF document using PDF Creator Plus.

Viewing Multipage TIFF Images

If you selected the Open file action, your new TIFF file will open using the default image viewing application on your computer. This is often Microsoft® Photo Viewer, but can also be the Microsoft® Paint, or another image viewer application.

If your TIFF file contains multiple pages, both Microsoft® Photos and Microsoft® Paint will only display the first page of the file. To properly view all pages of the TIFF image, right-click the image and choose Windows® Photo Viewer from the options listed. Another viewer shown here that is popular, and free to download, is IrfanView.

In Windows® Photo Viewer, there is a page widget at the bottom to navigate through the pages in the TIFF images.

Combine PDF With PDF Creator Plus

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PDF Creator Plus makes it easy to combine PDF files, and other document types, together into a single PDF. Drag and drop PDF handling makes combining multiple PDF files into one PDF file quick and easy. Need to add pages from a Microsoft® Word or Excel document to an existing PDF? No problem! The included PDF Creator Plus printer lets you add pages to your PDF from any document that you can print.

Combine Multiple PDF Files into a Single PDF

The simplest method to combine PDF files is to drag and drop the files onto the PDF Creator Plus builder application. The builder application collects the pages from the files together for you to preview and edit in a project before creating your new PDF file.

Open the PDF Builder

Start by finding the PDF files you want to combine to PDF in a File Explorer window. Next, right-click the first PDF file you want to combine. In the menu, use Open With – PDF Creator Plus to send the PDF to the PDF Creator Plus builder application.

This action opens the builder application and loads the pages of the PDF file into a project, naming the project using the name of the opened PDF file.

If the builder application is already open with pages in its collection, this action appends the new pages to the open project.

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With the builder application open, add the rest of your PDF files by selecting and dragging them from the File Explorer window onto the builder application window. You can drag them all at once to add them as a group. If you need them in a particular order, drag them one at a time in the order you need.

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Combine PDF with Password Protected Files

Password protected PDF files will prompt for their password when opening and adding the pages in the builder application. We cannot open and add pages from the PDF without the password. Entering the password will add the pages. From here you can then create a new PDF with or without a password as needed.

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Creating the New PDF File

The final step is to combine the collected pages into your new PDF file. Select the Create PDF button from the task window, or select File – Create PDF… from the menu.

From the Create File dialog, choose the name and location for the new PDF file. If you need to keep the original PDF files, choose a different name from your source PDF documents.

Additional PDF options for security, font embedding and hyperlinks can be set here as well. The default options are suitable for most uses. The Actions section allows you to to automatically open the new PDF, or containing folder, after creating the file.

Press the Save button when you are ready to create your PDF document. A progress dialog appears while we create your PDF, and will close when complete. The new PDF file then opens using your default PDF viewing application if the Open file action was ticked.

Combine PDF with Other Documents

Not only can you combine PDF files into a single PDF but you can also add new pages from other documents that are not PDF files. Using the included PDF Creator Plus printer, if you can print the document, you can add the pages to an existing PDF file.

From the steps above, we have a collection of pages from existing PDF files open in our builder application. We now want to add the content from a Microsoft® Word document before we create our new PDF.

Open and Print the Other Document

To get the new pages, open the Word document and print it to the PDF Creator Plus printer.

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When receiving pages from the PDF Creator Plus printer you are prompted to choose where you want to add them. You have three choices:

  • append the pages to the end of the current collection of pages
  • insert the pages at a particular point in the collection
  • discard the open collection of pages and start a new project

Choose Append the pages to the end of the project to add the pages to the end of our page collection.

Create the PDF with the Additional Pages

With the new pages from the Word document in the page collection, let’s create the new PDF file. Like above, we select the Create PDF button from the task window, or select File – Create PDF… from the menu.

Set the name and location for your new PDF file and any PDF options. Click the Save button when you are ready to create it.

Give it a Try!

See how easy it is for yourself – download the trial and try it out.

If you own a previous version of PDF Creator Plus, we encourage you to upgrade to the latest version and take advantage of all the new features.

PDF Creator Plus Dashboard

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The PDF Creator Plus Dashboard is a brand new feature for PEERNET’s latest version of PDF Creator Plus – Version 8! This centralized hub brings all the tools and resources into one place.

From the dashboard you can open the PDF Creator Plus builder application and set the printing preferences for the PDF Creator Plus printer. There are also convenient links to help resources and tutorials to get you started.

Additionally, the dashboard is also where you activate your product, view license status and check for product updates.

Dashboard License Information

The top-left hand corner of the dashboard displays current license status. When the product is activated, it also displays your serial number, license type and subscription status.

Open PDF Builder

The Open PDF Builder tile launches the PDF Creator Plus builder application. This is where you build and preview your PDF before creating it. Pages are added in either one of two ways. The first way is by dragging and dropping PDF files into the PDF Creator Plus window. The second is by printing documents to the PDF Creator Plus printer.

This collection of pages is a project. You can use the included page editing tools to re-order, copy and delete the pages in your project. There are also annotation tools to markup pages by adding images, text and hyperlinks, and hide content before creating the final PDF.

Printer Preferences

The Printer Preferences tile gives quick access to the PDF Creator Plus printer setting right from the dashboard. From here you can set paper size and orientation of the pages. You can also set custom settings for resolution and hardware margins, or copy these settings from another printer.

Activate Product/License Wizard

The dashboard gives easy access to all of your licensing and activation needs. The last tile in the first row reads Activate Product when you have not activated the software using your serial number. Clicking the tile will start the License Wizard where you can enter in your serial number and activate your software

Once the software is activated, this tile changes to License Wizard. Start here if you need to change or update your serial number. You can also manage your license activations via your PEERNET online account from here.

PDF Creator Plus Help Resources

The middle three tiles are all about help resources. There are links to a quick start guide, tutorials and the product user guide.

The Quick Start Guide PDF introduces you to the features and layout of PDF Creator Plus. The guide also walks you through creating your first PDF file.

The Video Tutorials tile takes you to our tutorials page on the PEERNET website. Here you can find a range of tutorials from basic to advanced on using PDF Creator Plus.

The last tile, User Guides, launches the PDF Creator Plus User Guide web page on the PEERNET website.

Licensing and Product Updates

The bottom row provides quick access to your PEERNET online account. Your account is where you manage your product licenses and renew your subscription. All product updates are also available in your account.

When an update is available in your account, the last tile will change from Up to Date to Check for Updates. Clicking the tile will take you to your My Products page to download and install the update.

Everything in One Place

We hope you like the new addition of the dashboard. Our goal was to make licensing and activation simpler. We also wanted to centralize access to all of the help resources. We like it, let us know what you think!

Word to PDF With Bookmarks

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Convert a Word to PDF with bookmarks and hyperlinks using the Save as PDF Microsoft Add-In. This Add-In is installed with PDF Creator Plus. Bookmarks in a PDF file have the same purpose as the Headings in the navigation pane in Microsoft Word. In both places they make for easy navigation of large documents.

When viewing a PDF file in Adobe Reader the bookmarks in a panel on the left hand side. Clicking on a bookmark moves to that section in the document. This is the same as moving around in a Word document using the navigation pane or a table of contents page.

The Save as PDF Microsoft Add-In will also process and keep hyperlinks in the Word document as well. This includes links in a table of contents and links to web pages, internal locations and other files created in the body of the document.

Using the Save As PDF Add-In

To create a PDF with bookmarks from Word, use the Save As PDF tool. This tool is on the Add-Ins tab on the ribbon interface.

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To send your Word document with bookmarks and hyperlink information to PDF Creator Plus, click the Save As PDF button. This will open the PDF Bookmark Creation Settings dialog.

These settings control which headings and styles from your Word document we will use to create the bookmarks in your PDF.

The initial settings include all text styled as Heading 1, 2 and 3. They map to Level 1, 2 and 3 bookmarks in the PDF. We show how to add additional bookmark levels below. For now, leave the settings to the default of three levels.

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Click OK to start converting your Word document to PDF with bookmarks and hyperlinks. A progress dialog shows the steps as Save AS PDF Add-in processes the document. This can take a bit of time depending on the complexity of your document.

When complete, the Add-In sends the pages as well as the bookmark and hyperlink information to PDF Creator Plus.

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Creating the PDF with Bookmarks and Hyperlinks

We can now create from our Word file a PDF file that will include bookmarks and hyperlinks. To start, click the Create PDF button from the task window, or select File – Create PDF… from the menu.

From here, choose where to save your new PDF file and set any additional PDF options.

To create a PDF with bookmarks, make sure you check the Create hyperlinks and Create outline option in the PDF Options section.

You can have your PDF file open automatically by checking the Open file option in the Actions section.

Press the Save button to create your PDF document. A progress dialog appears while we create your PDF, and will close when complete.

There you have it, a PDF file from a Word document with bookmarks and hyperlinks.

If you selected the Open file action, your new PDF file will open using your default PDF viewing application. This is often Adobe® Reader. but can also be the Microsoft® Edge browser, or another PDF viewer application.

A Note on PDF Bookmarks and Word Styles

The Save As PDF Add-In maps Word styles to PDF bookmark levels. In a Word document, using styles to format your text leads to a polished and professional look. They allow for quick formatting of headings, paragraph text and other elements. An added bonus, the built-in heading styles make it easy to generate a table of contents.

The PDF Bookmark Creation Settings dialog uses these styles to decide which styles, normally the built-in Heading styles, map to which PDF bookmark outline level. You can choose what outline level, from 1 to 9, to assign each available style in the document. Only styles assigned a bookmark level will be in the outline.

The default settings map heading styles 1,2 and 3 to PDF bookmark levels 1,2 and 3, respectively. Text in the Word document marked with these styles will become the PDF bookmarks in your PDF.

To add additional PDF bookmark levels, map level to the appropriate style. Here we add any text styled as Heading 4 and Heading 5 in our Word document as level 4 and 5 bookmarks in our PDF.

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Create PDF from any Document

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With PDF Creator Plus you can quickly and easily create Adobe® PDF files from any document you can print. Widely in use today, PDF files were created by Adobe® as a portable document format (PDF). They are a reliable way to share documents with the guarantee that the person on the other end will be able to open and view the document.

As a popular format, many applications already have the ability to export their documents to a PDF file. What they often cannot do is combine multiple documents into a single PDF.

PDF Creator Plus includes a virtual printer with a builder application that collects the pages as you print. This unique approach allows creating a PDF from a single document, with the flexibility to leave it open and continue printing, or adding existing PDF files, to build a new PDF from multiple documents.

The PDF Creator Plus builder application also includes tools to edit the pages in the PDF before you create it. You can move, copy and delete pages as well as add text, shape and image annotations on each page.

Create a PDF by Printing

If you can print your document, you can send it to PDF Creator Plus to create a PDF. This allows creating PDF files from Office documents, AutoCAD files, web applications, any application that can print. The only file you do not need to print is a PDF file. PDF Creator Plus can open and import the pages of a PDF file without having to print it.

To start, let’s print a Word document to PDF Creator Plus. Open a Word document and go to File – Print. Select the PDF Creator Plus printer from the list of printers, then click Print.

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The PDF Creator Plus builder application will launch if it is not already open. It then loads the pages from the Word document into a project. A project is a collection of pages that will become your PDF file. The project’s name is taken from the name of the Word document.

Thumbnails of each page are shown on the left hand side. The first page is open in the page view area on the right hand side.

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Add Another Document to the PDF

If we want to add additional documents to our PDF file, this is where we would leave the builder application open and continue printing other files to collect the pages from those files.

What if we want to add a PDF file next? We don’t need to print PDF file to collect their pages. The easiest way to add a PDF file is to drag the file from a File Explorer window and drop it onto the builder application. This loads copy of all of the pages in the PDF file and add them to the end of the current collection.

To do this, find your PDF file in a File Explorer windows and select it. Keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag it over the PDF Creator Plus builder application window. When you are over the window, release the left mouse button to drop the file.

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Creating the Final PDF

Now that we have collected all of the pages we want in your new PDF file, it is time to create it. Select the Create PDF button from the task window, or select File – Create PDF… from the menu.

The Create File dialog is where you choose the name and location for your new PDF file. This dialog also contains options for enabling security, font embedding or hyperlinks, if you need to do so. For most, the default options are suitable.

The final section, Actions allows you to automatically open the new PDF file, or the folder containing the file, after your new PDF is created.

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When you have chosen the name and location and any PDF options, press the Save button to create your PDF document. A progress dialog appears while we create your PDF, and will close when complete.

That’s how easy it is to create PDF files from multiple documents using PDF Creator Plus.

If you selected the Open file action, your new PDF file will open using the default PDF viewing application on your computer. This is often Adobe® Reader. but can also be the Microsoft® Edge browser, or another PDF viewer application.

How to Install and Activate PDF Creator Plus

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Your copy of PDF Creator Plus 8 is available as a digital download in your online account in the PEERNET Store. Here, we walk you through how to get access to your purchased software, find your serial number, and install and activate PDF Creator Plus software.

Downloading the Software

If you were testing the trial version of PDF Creator Plus before buying, the first step is to download the new setup program from your online account.

To download your new setup program first log into the PEERNET online account you used when purchasing. All your PEERNET products are listed in the My Products tab. Each tile shows the purchase information, serial number and a Download button.

Make note of your serial number shown here, you will need it to activate the product after installation. Your serial number is also available in your order confirmation email.

Select the Download button to download your purchased copy to your computer.

Install PDF Creator Plus

After the download is complete, double-click it to run the setup program. The setup program detects if you have a trial version and prompts to replace it with your purchased copy. If you see this screen, select Next to remove the evaluation and replace it with your purchased copy.

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Click Next through the install wizard screens to complete the install. At the end of the installation process you have the option to launch the dashboard. This is the quickest way to proceed with activation your software.

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Activate PDF Creator Plus

If you didn’t open the dashboard from the setup program, double-click the desktop shortcut for the PDF Creator Plus 8 Dashboard. In the dashboard, select the Activate Product tile to start the License Wizard.

When this tile says Purchase Product, it means you still have the evaluation version installed. Download and install your purchased copy from your online account to proceed.

To activate, enter in your serial number and your user information. Your serial number is available in your PEERNET online account or in your order confirmation email.

You do not need to fill in the user information fields, only the serial number. However, the user information fields are useful for managing serial number activations in organizations with multiple licenses.

While product activation requires that you have access to the internet, you can activate manually by following the steps for Manually Activating PDF Creator Plus.

If you do have internet access, click the Next arrow in the lower right to continue activating.

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Upon successful activation, the next screen will show your status.

If the activation failed, a failure status screen with an explanation is shown instead. If you need assistance in activating your product, do not hesitate to contact PEERNET Support.

Click the close icon in the bottom right to exit the License Wizard. The dashboard will update to provide your license information in the top left hand corner. This includes your serial number, activation status and the days remaining in your subscription term.

Activating Without Access to the Internet

If internet access or firewall settings have blocked the activation, you will need to manually activate PDF Creator Plus.

Introducing New Features in PDF Creator Plus 8

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New for 2023, PEERNET has released the latest version of PDF Creator Plus – Version 8! This new version brings a range of new features and major improvements both by request from users and others we’ve been planning on.

Featuring Drag and Drop PDF Support

You can drag and drop PDF files onto the PDF Creator Plus builder application for easy editing and combining. The action of dropping an PDF file onto PDF Creator Plus loads a copy of the pages from the PDF into a PDF Creator Plus project. This leaves your original PDF files intact.

A project is a collection of pages that you will use to create your new PDF file. In this project, or sandbox, you can drop additional PDF files to combine PDF files together. Add pages from other documents by printing to the PDF Creator Plus printer. The printer will send the pages to your open project.

You can use the included page editing tools to re-order, copy and delete any pages in your project. There are also annotation tools to markup pages, add images, text and hyperlinks, and hide content.

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New Improvements to PDF Text and Image Quality

This version includes major improvements to both the PDF Creator Plus builder application and the PDF Creator Plus printer driver.

You can create PDF files from any Windows application simply by printing the document to the PDF Creator Plus printer. Updates to the printer in version 8 give clearer text and improved graphics in the pages received from the printer.

In the same vein, we have also made improvements in the display engine in the PDF Creator Plus builder application. Text on the pages is clearer and easier to read. Pages now display faster, as is zooming in and out on a page.

Microsoft® Word Add-In Improvements

The included Save As PDF 8 Microsoft® Word Add-In allows creating PDF files from Word documents. These PDF files include all headings, outlines and hyperlinks from the Word document.

A major overhaul to the Save As PDF 8 Add-In has improved the speed of processing documents. This version also resolves incorrect spacing and location of outline and hyperlink areas that occurred with some documents in previous versions.

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The PDF Creator Plus Dashboard

The new PDF Creator Plus Dashboard is the centralized hub that brings all the tools and resources into one place.

From the dashboard you can open the PDF Creator Plus builder application and set the printing preferences for the PDF Creator Plus printer. There are also convenient links to help resources and tutorials to get you started.

Additionally, the dashboard is also where you can activate your product, view license status and check for product updates.

For existing users of earlier versions of PDF Creator Plus, we encourage you to upgrade to version 8 to discover for yourself all the new features and changes. We hope that these changes make creating and editing PDF files easier and more efficient for you. If you have any questions about the new features do not hesitate to reach out to the PEERNET team.

If you are new to PDF Creator Plus, the best way to get started is by downloading our free trial. This is a fully functional trial with a watermark added to all output files. As always, the PEERNET support team is more than happy to answer any of your questions and help you evaluate the trial.

Drag and Drop Merge PDF with PDF Creator Plus

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New in version 8 – introducing drag and drop merge PDF! You can now merge PDF files by dragging and dropping PDF files onto the PDF Creator Plus builder application for easy editing and combining.

Dragging and dropping PDF files onto PDF Creator Plus loads a copy of the PDF pages into a PDF Creator Plus project. This leaves your original PDF files intact. Your project is a collection of pages that you will use to create a new PDF file.

PDF Creator Plus includes page editing tools that let you re-order, copy and delete any pages added to your project. There are also annotation tools to markup pages, add images, text and hyperlinks, and hide content.

Opening the PDF Builder

To start, open the builder application, PDF Creator Plus by double-clicking on the desktop shortcut. You can also open the application from the Open PDF Builder tile in the PDF Creator Plus Dashboard. The application opens, or is brought to the foreground if it is already open.

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Drag and Drop to Merge PDF

The fastest way to open a PDF in the builder app is to drag and drop the file onto the application.

Drag and drop merging of a PDF file consists of three actions. First, selecting the file, then dragging it to the target location. The last action is to release, or drop it over the target.

  • Select the files in a File Explorer window, with a single click using the left mouse button. Keep the left mouse button pressed.
  • Move the mouse pointer to drag the files over on top of the PDF Creator Plus application window.
  • When you are over the window, drop the files by releasing the mouse pointer.

You can also drag and drop groups of PDF files by selecting multiple files and dropping the collection of PDF files onto the application. To select multiple files in File Explorer, left-click with the mouse and drag the select rectangle over the icons for the files. You can also use Ctrl key + left mouse click to choose individual files one by one. Use the Shift key + left mouse click to pick a continuous group of files.

Drag and drop to merge by selecting PDF in File Explorer and dropping onto PDF Creator Plus

The pages from the PDF file are copied into your PDF Creator Plus project. If the project is empty, the drop action names the project using the name of the dropped PDF file. When dropping into a project with pages, the drop action appends the new pages to the end of project.

Drag and drop to merge PDF and edit pages from the PDF files in PDF Creator Plus

Drag and Drop to Merge Multiple PDF and File Order

When dropping a group of files, there is no guarantee of the order in which we receive each file. If you need the pages in a particular order, drop the PDF files individually one by one. Alternatively, you can still drop the group of files to collect your pages. Then use the page tools in PDF Creator Plus to re-order the pages before creating the new PDF file.

Combine Password Protected PDF

Drag and drop merge PDF also works with password-protected PDF files. Dropping a password-protected PDF requires that you supply the password to open and add the file. We cannot open and add pages without the password.

Entering the password will add the pages. This is useful for combining secure documents with multiple passwords that you know. From here you can create a new PDF file with a new password. You can also create a PDF file with no password if that is what you need.

Creating the New PDF File

After dragging and dropping all of the PDF files to collect the pages, the last step is to create your new PDF file. Select the Create PDF button from the task window, or select File – Create PDF… from the menu.

This brings up the Create File dialog. This is where you choose the name and location to save the new PDF file.

Other PDF options such as security, font embedding and hyperlinks are here as well. For most, the default options are suitable.

The last section, Actions allows you to to automatically open the created file, or containing folder, after creating the file.

After setting your name and location and any PDF options, press the Save button to create your PDF document. A progress dialog appears while we create your PDF, and will close when complete.

If you selected the Open file option in the Actions options, your new file will open using the default PDF viewing application on your computer. This is often Adobe® Reader. but can also be the Microsoft® Edge browser, or another PDF viewer application.

That’s it! That is all there is to easily combining and editing PDF pages in PDF Creator Plus.