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Downloadable PDF Creators

1. CutePDF: Create a PDF file from almost any printable document. CutePDF has an open SDK and doesn’t bog down their software with popups or watermarks.
2. PDF reDirect: The freeware PDF reDirect offers loads of robust features, including PDF creation, previews, encryption, and more, that go a long way to replacing Adobe.
3. doPDF: Install doPDF as a virtual PDF printer driver, and you can create PDFs using your printer function.
4. CC (Free) PDF Converter: This printer driver can be used to create a PDF file from any printable Windows application.
5. PDFCreator: Use PDFCreator to create PDFs from any printable program, as well as encrypt and autosave files based on predefined terms.
6. Open Office: Open Office has a PDF export feature that allows you to define compression levels as well as handle thumbnails and hyperlinks.
7. Scribus: Use this desktop publishing program to create interactive PDF presentations and forms.
8. HylaFAX: HylaFAX is an open source fax server that can be configured to deliver in PDF.

Online and Desktop PDF Editors

9. PDFescape: This online PDF solution is a reader, editor, form filler, and form designer. All you need to use it is a JavaScript enabled web browser.
10. PDFedit: Use this editor to manipulate PDF documents, with an option to do your own scripting and plugins.
11. Multivalent browser: Although not a pure editor, this browser allows for minimal editing in the form of creating annotations. In addition, it includes several command-line PDF specific tools which allow for things like merging, compression, and extraction.

Viewers

12. Sumatra PDF: This Windows PDF viewer is light and minimalistic. It’s even designed for portable use, so you can run it from a USB drive.
13. FoxIt Reader: The Foxit PDF viewer is an all time favorite (especially of Digg users). And has a strong set of features (with a very competitive price )
14. PalmPDF: Use this PDF viewer for Palm OS devices.
15. Evince: Gnome users can take advantage of Evince, a document viewer that supports both PDF and PostScript documents.
16. Preview: Mac OS X comes with Preview, an application that displays images and PDFs.
17. ePDFView: This lightweight PDF viewer uses the GTK+ and Poppler libraries.
18. Okular: This document viewer for KDE 4 supports PDF, PostScript, and lots more.
19. Xpdf: Xpdf, available for nearly any Unix OS, is a PDF viewer that allows you to read encrypted PDFs, extract images, and more.

Compatability

20. PythonPoint: Use this tool to create presentations that can be opened with any PDF viewer.
21. AxPoint: Create PDF slideshows from XML using AxPoint.
22. DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Create and store documents in a presentation-neutral form that can be published in HTML, PDF, and more.
23. Unipage: Unipage turns any page, online or local, into an HTML file that can function as a portable document. Although Unipage is currently only available on Windows, additional OS and browser support is coming soon.
24. EasyPDF SDK: The easyPDF development toolkit helps you create PDF functions with minimum effort and very little code.
25. KWord: KWord is a word processor for KOffice, and it offers a PDF import function.
26. PDFlib: The PDFlib development tool offers a way for developers to PDF-enable software and create PDFs on their own server.
27. Ghostscript: The Ghostscript software can interpret PostScript language and PDFs interchangeably and convert them to faster formats.
28. Mozilla Archive Format: This extension can save pages in MHTML format, which creates a portable document of the page.
29. Pstoedit: This program converts PostScript or PDF files to other output formats such as WOMF/EMF, PDF, DXF, CGM, and HTML.

Command Line Manipulation and Editing

30. PJ: Etymon’s PJ, the parent of PJX, is one of the earliest open source attempts to make PDF’s more accessible. PJ is a class library in Java that allows parsing, manipulation, and generation of PDF files.
31. PDFlib: The PDFlib development tool offers a way for developers to PDF-enable software and create PDFs on their own server.
32. mbtPdfAsm: The mbtPdfAsm application is an in line tool for assembling and merging PDF files, extracting information from them, and updating PDF metadata.
33. PDF::API2: PDF::API2 offers a “next generation” tool for creating and manipulating PDF files.
34. PDF Clown: The PDF Clown is an open source library which includes capabilities such as document splitting, merging, and more.
35. iText: iText is an ideal library for developers seeking to automate PDF creation and manipulation.
36. FreeDist: This freeware distiller can convert files into PDF as well as compose multiple files to one PDF in a specific order.
37. Pdftk: This toolkit offers command-line functionality for lots of features, like merging, form filling, and encryption.

PDF Creation Libraries, Scripts and Systems

38. CUPS: The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is primarily a system for enabling a computer to act as a print server, but which has a robust feature that allows PDF exporting.
39. Lout: This document formatting system, the implementation of which is referred to as Basser Lout, can be outputted in PDF, plain text, and more.
40. Indexed PDF Creator: This tool automatically generates a keyword index for PDF documents which allows readers to quickly locate specific words and phrases in a document.
41. Cairo: Cairo, a vector drawing library, allows creation of PDF documents.
42. LyX: This document processor which is particularly popular amongst the scientific community offers PDF exporting.
43. Fly2PDF: You can create PDF documents directly using this ActiveX library.
44. PDF Creator Pilot: Use this library to create PDF files from popular programming languages like Visual Basic and ASP.
45. XeTex: XeTex is a typesetting program that offers PDF creation.
46. FPDF: Use FPDF to create PDF files with PHP. You don’t need PDFlib to use it.
47. Inkscape: Inkscape is an open source vector drawing program that offers support for PDF exports.
48. PdfTeX: This typesetting program can output PDF files and allows a number of features like links and tables of contents.
49. ReportLab: This library offers a PDF generation solution specifically suited for web publishers, developers, and creative designers who are looking for a high-speed automated PDF generation.
50. Tiny RML2PDF: You can create a PDF document from RML with this tool, giving it the appearance of a printed document.
51. HTML_ToPDF: This PHP class allows users to convert HTML to PDF files quickly and easily.

Other Tools

52. Skim: For OS X, Skim is a PDF reader with features that allow you to take notes and highlight on any PDF file.
53. Notepad Generator: This tool makes it easy to create a PDF notepad, and it’s fully customizable.
54. PDFmap: PDFmap offers automated generation of interactive PDF maps.