I sunk a few thousand dollars into Nuance software because the features were great: PaperPort Pro, Omnipage and PDF Converter Pro are an amazing combination if only Nuance would have stopped assuming I was pirating their software even after I had given them my receipt numbers from their online store. After 3 activations I had to call the mothership every time I did so much as plug in an iPod. The Nuance software was the best for features, but they treat their customers like shit and made me re-activate over and over again for small hardware changes to my computer. I've personally used Nuance PDF Converter Pro, NitroPDF and Foxit PhantomPDF. I would assume Adobe Acrobat would be the best, but it's so expensive that Adobe needs to consider accepting human sacrifices as a form of payment. docx within which you can edit them, then convert them back to PDF. The ones I haven't tried are:įWIW, Microsoft Word 2013 will convert PDFs to. I also tried PDFill, and it was extremely user unfriendly, though it seems like it would have powerful features in the right hands. I have interns set up with PDF-Xchange viewer to save licensing cost and it seems adequate for editing, though I think printing to PDF and merge/split are separate packages. I haven't used it thoroughly, as my work PC has Acrobat X. Some PDF editors break out their software into separate packages for 1) editing 2) printing to PDF from other applications 3) merging and splitting pages Very useful for when you want to cover up something or lock down editing of comments/mark-ups.įully featured client. No 'flatten pages', though the only way I know to do so in competitors' products is a custom JavaScript extension for Acrobat X, but at least it's available there. This would be very helpful for drafting/engineering. No automatic dimension call-out tool like in Acrobat X. I was down for a weekend waiting to get to phone support so that they could reset my license. If you reformat your HDD, you must deactivate your current install before thereformat, else you will not be able to activate the fresh install. For this alone, I recommend against it, hopefully they have grown more flexible in their design in the newer revisions.

No ability to open PDFs in separate windows, all open PDFs are forced into one window with a tab bar. I bought NitroPDF v6 2 years ago for $12 from a Circuit City deal.

Phantompdf vs nitro pro