PDF Studio

Kommentare: Overall, it is an outstanding PDF editor. Linux users often need a powerful PDF editor - PDF Studio is one of the few options available but luckily, its also one of the best options regardless of which operating system you are using.

Vorteile: PDF Studio 2018 is a cross platform application that allows users to switch between different computers running Windows, Mac and Linux using one license. The software continues to develop and add new features. Over the years, PDF Studio has added optical character recognition, text redaction. The newest version 2018 includes a full set of annotation tools, scanning to PDF, apply watermarks, measuring tools, digital signatures. One outstandingly feature is the “Optimize” tool which compresses PDF file size according to three settings: “aggressive” which involves heavy lossy compression; “balanced” medium compression; and “light” compression. This is an extremely useful tool that I have used numerous times over the past few months. Online tools for optimization do indeed exist, but they are awkward to use and uploading your PDFs to an unknown ‘cloud’ server seems rather unwise. PDF Studio is also significantly cheaper than Adobe Acrobat. The program has been around now years, and is a mature, well thought-out product.

Nachteile: Cons: PDF Studio does not include a variation of Adobe Acrobat's "ClearScan" function, which performs OCR and creates a scanned document using vector graphics. I regularly convert poor quality bitmap PDFs using Adobe’s OCR vector graphic Clearscans. I suppose such a technology is tricky indeed, but if PDF Studio offered such a feature, I would consider it a full replacement for Acrobat.

Kommentare: It is well designed, cross platform running in Linux, Windows, Mac. For me, this cross platform capability is essential and is outstanding. PDF Studio allows creation of notes in PDF documents and highlighting of text.

Vorteile: -- includes OCR that is invaluable for converting scanned text into text-searchable documents. -- allows full editing of PDFs including highlighting and notes. -- includes a redaction function that allows the user to remove sensitive or personal information from PDF documents. -- I've found situations where Acrobat is unable to open a PDF, but PDF Studio is able to open it without any problem. -- The company produces portable versions of PDF Studio that run on Android and Blackberry 10 mobile phone OS as well. The Blackberry 10 version works particularly well. The program has been around now for years, its quite a mature, well thought-out product. The company produces portable versions of PDF Studio that run on Android and an outstanding Blackberry 10 mobile phone OS as well.

Nachteile: The only drawback is that it does not include some of the advanced features that Adobe Acrobat offers. Adobe Acrobat's "ClearScan" function, which performs OCR and creates a scanned document using vector graphics, is a feature I use regularly. If PDF Studio offered such a feature, I would consider it a full replacement for Acrobat.