Besides being installed as a virtual printer, PDFCreator can be associated with .ps files to manually convert PostScript to PDF format.

PDFCreator can convert to the following file formats: PDF (including PDF/A (PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b) and PDF/X (X-3:2002, X-3:2003 and X-4)), PNG, JPEG, TIFF, TXT.

The business editions of PDFCreator allow users to write their own C# scripts with access to the entire job data.

[7][8] PDFCreator allows the user to disable printing, copying of text or images and modifying the original document.

These placeholders for values, like today’s date, username, or e-mail address can be helpful when printing many similar files like invoices.

All of them allow administrators to predefine specific settings centrally with the easy management of user groups.

[citation needed] Between 2009 and 2013 the installation package included a closed-source browser toolbar that was considered by many users to be malicious software.

Although technically an optional component, the opt-out procedure used to be a two-step process (prior to version 1.2.3), which was considered by many to be intentionally confusing.

[15] In addition to the spyware activity described below, the toolbar allowed one-click creation of PDFs from the current webpage and included a search tool.

On 13 June 2012, PDFCreator once again included another controversial bundled software package, which tests as spyware, called SweetIM.

[29] The now defunct OpenCD project chose PDFCreator as the best free software package for creating PDF files in Windows.