Invoking the installation with winget, it fails with error code 8 without any details
PS C:\Users\administrator> winget install PDFCreator-Free
Found PDFCreator Free [Avanquestpdfforge.PDFCreator-Free] Version 5.3.3
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Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 8
Logging into the winget log, the last lines contain:
2025-04-04 12:31:04.314 [CLI ] Starting: 'C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\WinGet\Avanquestpdfforge.PDFCreator-Free.5.3.3\PDFCreator-5_3_3-Setup.exe' with arguments '/COMPONENTS="MAINPROGRAM,IMAGES2PDF,HOTFOLDER" /SILENT /log "C:\Users\administrator\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir\WinGet-Avanquestpdfforge.PDFCreator-Free.5.3.3-2025-04-04-12-31-04.313.log"'
The above mentioned logfile does not exist.
Executing the command line manually, it does nothing visible. Leaving out the /SILENT parameter, the Welcome screen with language choice is shown.
Other programs successfully install with winget.