PDFelement 6 - PDF Editor for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Roger -Dot- Lee

  A perhaps unsurprising failure

  If an application can find a way of screwing something up, this one does it in spades. Any attempt to convert from PDF to any other format leaves you with a competely incomprehensible mess that can only be fixed by deleting the original and any saved copies and starting from scratch. This is the type of product I expect from a windows box, not an OS X application that attempts to make you pay. I might consider buying it if I had any inkling, even the slightest hope that it would actually allow me to edit and save a PDF. Unfortunately, it fails at all levels. A complete waste of time, disk space, and effort. The amount of time spent is part of my life that I will never get back. Try at your own risk, and don’t blame me if they screw up your documents as badly as they screwed up mine. I suggest the authors, programmers, and support staff all take up competitive needlepoint, because as a software developer, they fail miserably on all counts.

  
  
• By Sealwrangler

  Finally I can work with PDF files

  I have always enjoyed the value of Adobe's PDF format but frustrated by the limited things one can do with the files. The Macintosh PREVIEW appliction has limited flexibility with PDF files and Acrobat, unless you pay a lot for the premium version, is basically read and sometimes form fill only. This app allows very good exports to the common MS Office formats and is fast and intuitive. The only problem I have with it is that it seems to have a non-Windows like interface which is frustrating. I have other applications from this developer and they are my go-to apps for media reformatting and editing, and their UI is much nicer than this one. But it is quite useable and flexible.

  
  
• By JohnAGoldsmith

  Compared to Acrobat

  I downloaded a copy in return for a review of the program. If it was in fact the restricted try-out version (rather than the full version, as others have said here) then I agree that the wording I read is deceptive; I certainly expected it would be a full working copy. I trust that the company reads these remarks. Please do not leave a misinterpretation after conscientious users tell you how we potential users read your English. I need to convert pdfs from latex into Word, and I found that this program does that better than Adobe Acrobat.

  
  
• By John Stellberg

  Best low-cost PDF editor I’ve found

  After I retired from my job in the graphics industry, I sorely missed hving access to all the power of the full version of Adobe Acrobat. So I was pleasantly surprised when I came across PDFelement. Although it is nowhere as sophisticated and seamless as the full version of Acrobat, it does almost everything a home user like me needs to do with PDFs. The features I use most often are adding signatures and text to documents, and PDFelement makes this a breeze. It’s somewhat less capable when it comes to editing existing text (the existing formatting always seems to change just a hair), but it’s usually good enough. For the price, I haven’t found any PDF editor with better features or user interface. It should definitely be on your computer if you work with PDFs!

  
  

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