The business I work for has been running with an Acrobat v9 volume licence since 2008. For the 50 odd staff it's been doing the job of PDF creation and editing (merge, delete a page, and export tables to excel). It's finally time to upgrade to a better PDF editor that does a better job of exporting tables, signing docs and opening PDFs with modern security which v9 can't do. I almost fell off my chair when I was quoted $13k per year for Acrobat for 50 users. Adobe is taking the pi$$, is there any other PDF software you can recommend that stands up to Adobe and is reasonably priced?
PDF Editing Software at a Reasonable Price
brettule on 28/09/2021 - 15:41
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If only Adobe PDF wasn’t hot garbage, this might be true.
I have actually found smallpdf.com is pretty good for handling PDFs. But my needs are mainly converting back to editable files, not working with PDFs everyday.
Have you spoken with an IT Reseller about this?
They should be able to get you an upgrade option/path and licensing at a reasonable price.Foxit - https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/
PDF Xchange Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
Master PDF - https://code-industry.net/
Personally not a fan of this monthly subscription bullshit. With anything…
We only have 12 Adobe PDF and 2 Creative Cloud All Apps
thats painful enoughIt constantly amazes me there is no good open source option for simple stuff like removing or rearranging pages!
PDF Split and merge was decent before it went paid.
Just use the 2.2.4 version of PDF Split and Merge that still has all the functionality: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/files/pdfsam/2.2.4/
No need to use the 3.0 versions.
For windows, PDFill PDF Tools has worked for me pretty well. The user interface is not very pretty though but gets the job done.
Yep totally agree. It's not pretty but it does everything.
If you are an OSX user, the inbuilt Preview tool has some basic functionality - rearrange pages, insert text. I was quit surprised at how good it was .
I believe Nitro is still regarded as the next best paid alternative.
Though 50 odd staff , you must have some pretty OKAY turn over to support, why not just write it all off as tax ?
Sometimes paying for premium for software that works is worth saving headaches, especially for (typically older) staff that want to just stick with what they are familiar with.