+1

"Turnips" :)

My beef with PDFCreator is that they dropped the MSI option. I'd be quite 
interested in another option that includes an MSI.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 12:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Free PDF creator/printer for Win 7

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Erik Goldoff <egold...@gmail.com> wrote:
> footnote, from comments on the sourceforge.net site regarding PDFCreator :
>
> Formerly a big fan running older version. Was not happy to find out, 
> upon downloading the most current version, that it contains unavoidable 
> spyware.

  The reviewers saying that are idiots.  (This is the Internet, after all.)

  PDFCreator's installer does bundle an *optional* advertising toolbar 
(Yahoo's, IIRC).  A panel of the install wizard is dedicated to this fact, 
complete with a screenshot of the toolbar, and a checkbox.
Un-check the box and you don't get the toolbar.  The turnips clicking "Next" 
without looking are getting the toolbar.

  While I'm certainly no fan of bundled adware, PDFCreator is hardly the only 
one doing so ("Download Windows Search to improve history and favorites 
results"), and you can easily opt-out.

-- Ben

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