What's the best PDF editing software?

efeezy

efeezy

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My wife deals with PDF files all day for her job and is in need of a good editing platform for making changes and republishing as a PDF file. Will Acrobat X Pro do this, or is there a better (& cheaper solution). Her company is a bunch of cheap ass bitches and wouldn't spend a dime to make their employee's jobs easier, so I need to find something that will work for her. Cheers.

Oh and she's not uber software/tech savy, so we need to keep this as simple as possible.
 


LibreOffice has a PDF import extension that works well (albeit a little slow at times.) Probably the best and cheapest option for her.
 
IMHopeful said:
LibreOffice has a PDF import extension that works well (albeit a little slow at times.) Probably the best and cheapest option for her.
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Came here to say open office, is the cheap and easy route, adobe of course is the best.
 
Sounds like a work related deduction to me.

Seriously. Fuck them if they don't want to buy the software needed for their employees to do their job.
 
Shit might backfire if she's suddenly hammering out teh PDF's like no one else...

Buy her the easiest and fastest shit and set it up at home. She can knock out her work in an hour and thumbdrive that shit. Next day she can drip feed that shit in and surf lingerie sites all day for her good man. Just have her setup a hotkey that launches a screenshot of her shitty work software during moments like this:

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Nitro PDF would be your best bet. It has an amazing capability of converting PDFs to Word documents with unmatched standards and once edited these can be exported back to PDFs. Me & people in my company use it all the time. And at $100, it's not exactly pricey!

However, as someone already pointed out, shit can backfire. If she finishes her work earlier than usual, she might be bombarded with more work - which is the regular norm of offices i.e you can never have enough work. So the home thing would be awesome.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. She works from home, so getting done with work to fast isn't a problem. She just needs something to make her daily job easier and the fact that the company won't pony up and get the software their employees needs drives me fucking nuts.
 
efeezy said:
Thanks for the suggestions. She works from home, so getting done with work to fast isn't a problem. She just needs something to make her daily job easier and the fact that the company won't pony up and get the software their employees needs drives me fucking nuts.
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Well then there's no doubt about it. Ask her to get Nitro PDF - Free Download | Nitro PDF Professional 6 Buy it or Pirate it - your call!

You won't regret it. Especially with not much of a learning curve with it - since its pretty much drag & drop!
 
AuthorAji said:
Well then there's no doubt about it. Ask her to get Nitro PDF - Free Download | Nitro PDF Professional 6 Buy it or Pirate it - your call!

You won't regret it. Especially with not much of a learning curve with it - since its pretty much drag & drop!
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a10sys said:
+1 Nitro PDF
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You two might want to try using OpenOffice or LibreOffice. I haven't PAID for a program to create or edit PDFs, but I seriously fail to see the advantage of these programs.

LibreOffice has "export to PDF" out of the box and "PDF Import" takes all of two seconds to install.
 
Have you ever had a PDF that needs editing but doesn't have a source file? Or maybe a 72 page report on "Management-Employee" relations that your boss pirated from somewhere and wants rebranded for internal circulation?

I've never faced these problems but I've been in situations where I had PDFs but lacked source files. When you convert a PDF to a Word document using Nitro PDF it's looks and feels the same as the main file (I mean one with background images and text overladen and with perfect image/text alignment etc.)

Also, since am in the internet business I tend to get emailed a lot many documents from clients most of which are scanned copies of actual content/info or even contracts. At such time the OCR functionality works wonders. (Speaking from experience.)

Another major reason is the ability to make PDF printable forms. I know there are a lot of softwares that can make forms but I just find it easier with NitroPDF.

If it was just exporting to PDF from Office based programs, I could easily download Bullzip PDF printer and convert all my documents to PDFs in seconds. But NitroPDF just gives me a better control :)

/end fanboy talk!
 
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