PDF Escape (online, browser-based and free).Master PDF Editor (Non-free, a basic free version available).Qoppa PDF Studio (Non-free, free trial available).Inkscape (Free, available on the snap store).LibreOffice Draw (free and available by default on most Linux distros).Although these products are nothing like the many useful Acrobat tools, they can help you with basic PDF editing.īelow is a list of products we’ve researched and found some readily available and free for your purpose: However, you can install Acrobat products via Wine on Ubuntu or use a variety of other Linux-based PDF viewing and editing programs. Unfortunately, there is no standard PDF editor on your Linux systems. On Windows and macOS, you probably are familiar with and rely on the widely used Acrobat products for viewing and editing PDF files. It's well worth checking out.PDF or Portable Document Format is usually our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing, and sending documents, especially larger documents. Many applications such as Microsoft Office and Open Office have that feature built in, but if you want to create a PDF from other applications such as your browser, you'll need to download a free PDF printer driver such as doPDF or CutePDF Writer.Overall, PDF Studio Pro does everything I need and more, at less than half the price of Adobe Acrobat. Unlike Acrobat, PDF Studio doesn't include a PDF printer driver to create PDFs from other applications. If you want to modify print options such as auto-rotate, page scaling, and whether to print annotations, you have to do it via Edit / Preferences / Print instead of in the Print Dialog. It has a few minor shortcomings compared to Acrobat 7: You can't wrap the display of long bookmarks, but version 9 will apparently display the full boomark as a tooltip. In particular, the Pro version lets you do batch operations such as applying headers and watermarks to multiple files simultaneously. It seems to have all the features of Acrobat 7 and more. The trial version will warn you about this when you attempt to save a document.Earlier versions of PDF Studio had significant drawbacks, such as no OCR capability, but that's been fixed in version 8. The trial version places a watermark and header on every page, so make sure you only test it out on copies of your documents. Since people typically use only a small subset of a software product's features, the best thing about PDF Studio is that you can download a fully-functioning free trial to see if it does everything you need. I looked at several other PDF Editor options and found that PDF Studio Pro 8 does everything I need at less than half the price. To continue using Acrobat, I'd either have to buy Acrobat XI Standard at $300, or subscribe to Acrobat XI Pro at $240/yr. With Microsoft ending XP support, I upgraded to Windows 8.1, which is not supported by Acrobat 7. I've been using Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard on Windows XP for many years for personal and small business use. Fixed issue when trying to save annotated documents in side by side comparison mode.īy Anonymous reviewed on January 10, 2014Īcrobat functionality at less than half the price. Fixes: Fixed issues with smtp connection in the newly added email function. Improvements: Remember Last Tool Used: Grouped buttons on the toolbar remember the last tool used after restarting PDF Studio. Fixed issue when trying to save annotated documents in side by side comparison mode. PDF Studio is perfect for anyone who doesn't like working with Adobe Reader and needs to add different types of annotations to their PDFs Probably the snazziest little feature is the ability to add sound and interactive elements to PDF documents - ideal for creating questionnaires and quizzes. If you want to join or split some PDFs, you can do that too and even add a password to open the PDFs you create. From here you can add text, draw diagrams, add watermarks, apply stamps, and generally deface documents to your content. Editing documents is done via the formatting toolbar across the top.
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