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- Price: Free to try (Watermark on output); $19.99 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7
- Date added: August 03, 2009
- Total Downloads: 564,613
- Downloads last week: 3,556
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 142 votes
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It might be hard to believe, but the PDF sun doesn't rise and set on Adobe Acrobat. This suite of PDF-creation tools offers a cheaper alternative based on open-source software called Ghostscript. PDFill PDF Editor lets you design PDF documents complete with text boxes, embedded images, hyperlinks, and forms, and can output encrypted PDFs. In addition to the main application, the suite provides a number of utilities for splitting and merging documents, watermarking them, and adding headers and footers. We're glad to have them, but we would be even happier to see them integrated into the main program. Besides the logo the demo places atop every document, our only other complaint with PDFill PDF Editor is that it's quite slow at opening large (400-page) PDFs, even on a fast computer. Overall, PDFill PDF Editor probably won't make Adobe quake in its boots, but it's a good option for users who don't need the power of the Adobe package, or don't want to pay for it.Publisher's description
From PlotSoft :Looking for an inexpensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat? Please try PDFill: PDF Form Filler to save fill-in PDF forms with data import, export or Autofill; Type your international word into PDF like typewriter; PDF Form Maker to create, edit, delete, reset and submit PDF form; PDF Filler to add rotated, styled, transparent and bordered Text, Checkmark, Image, Hyperlink, Whiteout and Highlight; PDF Commenting to add free annotation, sticky note, popup, file attachment, video and shapes; PDF Drawing to add basic shapes and curves with border and filling style. Tools for Multiple selection, Tab order, Precise Alignment, Spell-Checker. Save all the editing back to PDF with Information, Encrypt, View and Presentation options.
Comes with a free writer to create PDF or Image from any printable program, and free Tools to merge, split, reorder, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop, reformat, header, footer, watermark. Version 7.0 adds Windows 7 support, Transparency, Curve and Pen Drawing, and Header and Footer.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 142 votes
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Version: PDFill PDF Editor 7.0
"my favorite software discovery"
Pros: I love all the things that pdfill helps me to do with documents. Check out a trial and you will be amazed at its worth. It's a great buy
Cons: I don't have any cons. I like everything about pdfill
Summary: It is wonderful how pdfill lets me edit pdf documents to make use of pdf documents that I otherwise could not use. It is a very helpful software
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Version: PDFill PDF Editor 7.0
Pros: Easy to insert text into any PDF. Included tools are great to manage multiple PDF files.
Cons: Can be difficult to line up text.
Summary: This is the easiest and least expensive product I have found to fill in PDF docs that don't have the auto fields. It is also great to scan docs into PDF's and then edit and fill in forms. Included free tools are useful for managing any PDF documen... read more >>
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Version: PDFill PDF Editor 7.0
Pros: easy to use and very effective
Cons: no downside
Summary: this product is very simple to use. it allows us to edit pdf's very easily. we would recommend it
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Version: PDFill PDF Editor 7.0
"pdfill is a very nice software"
Pros: it is easy to use and the price is reasonable
Cons: There isn't anything that I don't like about the pdfill software
Summary: I like the fact that I can scan any form or application and use the pdfill software as a type writer to fill in the information for a professional finish. It helps me a lot for my business and personal goals.
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Version: PDFill PDF Editor 7.0
"Tried to use product with NO success."
Pros: Pros - None
Cons: Cons - tried to use the program but had zero success at it. Eventually gave up and tried having someone at work (in IT) do what I needed done. Much simpler!
Summary: Bottom lind - Not easy to figure out and no reasonable help available.
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