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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: December 24, 2008
- Total Downloads: 218,566
- Downloads last week: 6,047
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 68 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on May 05, 2009
PDF files are a common format for most businesses today. However, altering and creating fresh PDFs remains a mystery for many people. PDFill PDF Tools hopes to make this process simpler with a number of options, but the busy interface may overwhelm less experienced users.
This freeware program has a cluttered interface that will take some studying and experimentation to master. However, all the elements serve a purpose, and many will look familiar to those who have used a word-processing program. The screen looks very much like Microsoft Word's display, with a ruler running down the side and familiar buttons for saving, creating, printing, and fonts along the top. Along the left side are a string of icons with tools for creating PDF-specific tools like check boxes, drop-down menus, radio buttons, and more. The right side of the screen features icons that help give PDFs a professional sheen, by sizing and balancing the page with various tools. Along the bottom are still more buttons; these allow users to do everything from drawing text boxes, highlighting text, or even adding videos.
PDFill allows users to alter existing PDFs or create documents from scratch. One of its most unique aspects is the helpful hints. When our test PDF opened, it contained no fillable fields and offered to show us how to create them. Boxes pop up regularly throughout and offer other helpful hints.
The only negative is PDFill's crowded interface. With all four sides covered in buttons, it can get overwhelming. However, with a little practice we think that anyone can create and alter PDFs using this excellent download.
Publisher's description
From PlotSoft :Free PDF Tools to merge, split, reorder, encrypt or decrypt, rotate, crop, reformat, header or footer, watermark, images to PDF, PDF to images, form fields delete, flatten, and list, and PostScript to PDF.
You can merge multiple PDF files into one file; extract, split, or reorder pages into a new file; encrypt or decrypt PDF documents; rotate pages by 90, 180, and 270 degree; crop pages to change the view or print area; reformat multiple pages into one page with added note lines or change the page position. Add headers or footers in your international language; add stamp using image or a formatted text in your international language; convert images to PDF or PDF to images; delete, flatten, or list PDF form fields. Convert PS into PDF. Convert Image into Transparent PNG.
Version 6.0 adds Windows Vista and 64-bit support.
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Version 6 adds Windows Vista and 64-bit support.
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User reviews of PDFill PDF Tools Free 6.0
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 68 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PDFill PDF Tools Free 6.0
"Best FREE PDF manipulation software out there!"
Pros: You can do 90% of the things you would ever actually use Acrobat to do for FREE, such as creating, merging, splitting, rearranging PDF's, and more. Did I mention it's FREE?
Cons: Once again, this is FREE for almost all the tools the overwhelming majority of people will ever need. However, it is NOT as powerful as Acrobat. If you need more horsepower, you will need to spend some $$$.
Summary: This program was a great find for me. I have been checking out FREE PDF solutions for a while because I need to manipulate PDS's on 4 separate personal computers (I'm an IT student). I have Nuance's PDF Converter, which I bought a while ago, for any... read more >>
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PDFill PDF Tools Free 6.0
Pros: Program enables you to merge PDF files, and actually insert them in any order during the merge.
Cons: Page sorting has to be done at before the merge.
Summary: For free, this is a great program. I was able to create four loan packages consisting on 40 plus pages each!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PDFill PDF Tools Free 6.0
"Not using a merge pdf file program,before, easy to use"
Pros: Merge pdf simple to use, for this first timer
Cons: none that I know of
Summary: Simplicity for my needs
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PDFill PDF Tools Free 6.0
Pros: I was looking for something that would rotate and crop PDF files so they'd display on my PMP (Archos). This does the job perfectly and does it fast.
Cons: None that I found.
Summary: Don't be scared off by the editor's complaint about the cluttered interface. It's MUCH better than nesting the functions in menus or cute buttons. You can easily find what you want to do and then do it. How is that a negative?
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PDFill PDF Tools Free 6.0
Pros: simple to use
Cons: although mergeing is real easy, other functions are somewhat complicated
Summary: Easily allows you to assemble, reorder and merge pdf files. Great if you have a wireless printer that will only scan one page at a time. Also, to clear it up, the Tools and Writer are free. Only the editor is a trail version. For most folks the tool... read more >>
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