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My old copy of Adobe Acrobat 8 has finally decided it doesn't want to play - is there any program out there that lets me edit PDFs without having to pay a monthly fee, use some advert-covered web service or sign up with my Facebook account?

<luddite> What ever happened to just buying software that does something and using it? </luddite>


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 9:30 am
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If you're on a Mac, [url= https://pdfexpert.com/ ]PDF Expert[/url] is good


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 9:51 am
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PC unfortunately...


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 10:13 am
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Word


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 10:26 am
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The whole Adobe business model is the reader is free but you pay to create/edit (edit although as above now Word and Mac/iOS Pages let you create)

I mark up pdf on iPad using the excellent iAnnotate (£25 I think I paid years ago), well worth it even thiugh Mac programms like Preview can do similarish for free


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 10:31 am
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Do you need to edit what's already in the document or just overlay additional text (form filling, comments, etc)? Foxit Reader can do the later. I use SumatraPDF as a reader as it's very lightweight and fast.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 11:01 am
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Nuance Power PDF Standard seems pretty good and is cheaper than Adobe. We've bought one license at work and we're testing it...

[url= https://www.nuance.com/print-capture-and-pdf-solutions/pdf-and-document-conversion/power-pdf-converter/power-pdf-standard.html ]Nuance Power PDF[/url]


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 11:16 am
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Cheers all, I'll try them out - it's just filling in forms.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 11:51 am
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Foxit do some good programs, from a free reader to a few different editor type programs.

I find them far easier to use than the Adobe versions.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 11:58 am
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If you're on a Mac, PDF Expert is good
on a Mac, Preview (part of the OS) will do this, no extra software required! In fact it's excellent for all kinds of PDF/image faffage.

(Doesn't help OP, I know.)


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 12:24 pm
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<luddite> What ever happened to just buying software that does something and using it? </luddite>

No longer the software business model, it's all about subscription these days...


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 12:30 pm
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Not going to help you at all, but when I used to work in the communications dept of a certain royal institution the elderly editor of one of our in-house magazines asked me for a quiet word one day. She'd heard that we going to be employing paedophiles. It took a few seconds for the penny to drop, and all was smoothed out. Within a few weeks she was creating her own paedophiles on her new Mac.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 12:31 pm
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NitroPDF is also a good one for form-filling PDFs.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 12:33 pm
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[url= https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/ ]Acrobat Reader DC[/url] allows form filling, signing, saving and printing thereafter. Works OK for me on Win10 - and it was free.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 1:14 pm
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www.sejda.com. Free online version if you don't save over 5 PDF edits an hr.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 1:31 pm
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on a Mac, Preview (part of the OS) will do this, no extra software required! In fact it's excellent for all kinds of PDF/image faffage.

Preview is good, and better than PDF Expert at some things, but PDF Expert allows one to edit the original text in a PDF, and do other stuff, that Preview can't do


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 1:31 pm
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Nitro, brilliant software.

Great for pdf editing too.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 5:52 pm
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Nitro pdf is what I use. Seems ok.

Primo pdf is good as well.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 7:01 pm
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
Filling in forms, adding your signature (scanned in beforehand), once saved they are embedded. I've set up a few processes at work where A hyperlink to a file is emailed round, people then go in & add their signatures.

Or adding comments that can be removed. Even pasting images in. It's the software I use most these days.
Creating PDF from Office is as easy as Save_as these days.
On the odd occasion I need to add to a PDF I use Primo PDF printer, works well is simple to l use.


 
Posted : 13/09/2017 7:10 pm

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