Announcing the Creative Commons PDF Converter

The CC PDF Converter is a free (open source) application that enables you to create PDF documents from almost any application (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and more). The CC PDF Converter also allows you to easily embed a creative commons license in your PDF file.

If you find any bugs or have any suggestions, I would really appreciate it if you leave them as comments on this post.

I can also be contacted through my email (see the About the author page).

One last thing… If you enjoy the CC PDF Converter and you also need to extract data from PDF files to Excel than I would be honored if you could take a couple of minutes to check out our commercial product. It is a professional PDF to Excel conversion utility which is used by over 10,000 companies around the world. If you decide to get PDF2XL you’ll be saving a ton of time on PDF data conversion and helping us create more open source tools for PDF users.

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Yoav Ezer 
Filed Under Adobe, Cogniview, Most Popular, PDF

Comments

31 Responses to “Announcing the Creative Commons PDF Converter”

  1. BobChao on July 5th, 2007 12:11 pm

    hmm… It works great, but no XMP licensing info attached to the result PDF file. Will you add XMP support?

  2. Yoav Ezer on July 5th, 2007 1:42 pm

    Hi Bob,

    Thanks.

    Yes…we know XMP licensing is a must and we are working on it Thank for leaving the comment. If you notify us of any more bugs or have more suggestions we will greatly appreciate it.

    -Yoav

  3. Albert on July 9th, 2007 9:41 am

    Hey, I lost the colours in my new PDF document! Do you know why?

  4. Yoav Ezer on July 9th, 2007 1:33 pm

    Unfortunately Albert, the CC PDF Converter does not currently support color printing.

  5. Cogniview Brings CC Licensing to PDF Output - Creative Commons on July 12th, 2007 1:51 am

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  6. Jedi on July 12th, 2007 3:41 am

    As to XMP embedding, you do have http://www.cogniview.com/creative-commons-info.php project, don’t you? :-p

  7. Yoav Ezer on July 12th, 2007 10:42 am

    Hi Jedi,

    True, but the CC Info Plug in only works if you have the Adobe writer. And it just does XMP embedding. We thought that the fact that the deed itself is merged to the original document is important to the use/spread of the produced PDF files as CC Licensed content. The CC PDF Converter will also embed the XMP data in the near future (once we iron out the bugs). I apologize for the mixed metaphor.

    To put it more simply

    XMP – for machines

    Visible deed/stamp – for people

    -Yoav

  8. James Boyle on July 19th, 2007 4:19 pm

    Thanks for making this, Yoav! I look forward to using it
    Best, James

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  10. Dan on July 21st, 2007 6:40 am

    I was just wondering if CC PDF will eventually support hyperlinks in the PDF documents it generates.

  11. Yoav Ezer on July 22nd, 2007 10:36 am

    Hi Dan,

    We’ve been thinking about it and now that you’ve asked it, it will definitely be added to the future feature list

    Yoav

  12. Yoav Ezer on July 22nd, 2007 10:41 am

    Hi James,

    It’s our pleasure. If you have any ideas for improvement or if you find any bugs, we’d love to hear about them.

  13. Open Source .PDF Converter on July 26th, 2007 6:01 pm

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  14. Anne Wayman on July 26th, 2007 6:02 pm

    yeah, clickable links and color are what I would want before I use it.

    Anne Wayman
    http://www.thegoldenpencil.com

  15. Lourdes on July 29th, 2007 11:13 pm

    I dowloaded the pdf converter but when I tried to convert a short word file, it doesn´t work. I´m using Widdows XP and I can send the word file to the free pdf converter but it took long time and at the end I have to cancel the printing. please help!!!

  16. Thang Nguyen on August 9th, 2007 9:04 pm

    Does it capable of programmatically converting a word file to pdf with CC PDF converter not manual? If it does, how?

    thanks,

    Thang-

  17. Yoav Ezer on August 9th, 2007 9:31 pm

    Hi Thang,

    We will be releasing the full source code of the CC PDF converter in about a week. So you will be able to have full programmatic control over it. However, please note that it will be released under the GPL open source license. This means that if you integrate it into your application you will have to release the entire application under the GPL license.

  18. Matt Keegan on August 23rd, 2007 10:09 pm

    I downloaded the file and am looking forward to using it in the near future. Thank you for taking the time to develop this tool.

  19. Essential Tools Of Pro Blogger Chris Garrett on September 26th, 2007 2:22 pm

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  20. yenping on March 7th, 2008 1:15 pm

    This works beautifully. I converted both .docx and .doc formats and the pdfs rendered near perfectly. Thank you!

  21. Kiqlo on August 21st, 2008 7:50 pm

    wow it works! But it would be nice if you could do that by using command line. At the moment I found a converter pdf swf. It would be nice if I could merge together and do any format to swf :)

  22. Ghoul Friday on September 1st, 2008 5:46 am

    Hi there. I’m using Windows 2000. The software allows me to convert from a Word Doc to a PDF perfectly. BUT if I try to add the creative commons image, it crashes Word before the document can be converted. Ideas?

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  26. clark on April 10th, 2011 4:06 pm

    I’m kinda ignorant about this stuff. Will this allow me to convert ms publisher 07 to pdf?

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