Printer Emulators, PDF Writers and so on.

Question

I will soon be working on 'Print' and 'Print Preview' features of a product I am working on. I do not own a printer nor do I have any intention of buying one. I am looking for any free software which I can use to test my printing code.

What are the best free options I can use to emulate a printer? I am using GDI+ on Windows but platform independent options such as PDF writers are more than welcome.

Answer 1

I know a quite good pdf printer, used for many years: CutePDF and it's free :)

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Answer 2

PDF Creator is nice (and also open source) .

It creates a virtual printer, and prints PDFs via Ghostscript.