PDF Knowledgeable for Mac from Readdle affords a seven-day full-featured free trial, which may make it best in the event you simply want an answer now and don’t anticipate to be enhancing PDFs once more for some time. In case you do want it for longer than per week it prices $79.99/£72.99 a 12 months on subscription, or $139.99/£139.99 in the event you select the Lifetime plan.
We discovered PDF Knowledgeable did a superb job of sustaining the fonts, type and formatting of the unique PDF.
There are two choices for enhancing that you could find within the menu on the high of the web page: Annotate and Edit. Beneath Annotate one can find the device to simply add textual content to the PDF. You possibly can select the font and coloration of the textual content right here.
Nevertheless, one can find the higher enhancing instruments underneath Edit. Right here you may have the choice to truly edit the textual content already on the web page, add pictures, add hyperlinks, and redact delicate data (you’ll be able to select to black out names, or you’ll be able to seek for a particular phrase and delete each prevalence of that.)
We had been capable of choose textual content and transfer it across the web page. However as we discovered with all of the PDF editors right here, it wasn’t doable to tug and drop textual content between pages (to get round this we had been capable of reduce and paste and nonetheless make a handsome doc).
Again to the Annotate tab. Right here one can find choices to spotlight, underline, or strike-through textual content, in addition to a pan device meaning you’ll be able to draw freehand in any coloration, in addition to change the road width and opacity. There’s additionally a crop device right here. In Annotate you can even add sticky notes and stamps (e.g. an Approval). You’ll see a column of current annotations on the left so it’s straightforward to see what edits have been made and when. These annotations will be exported as HTML, textual content or markdown.
Including a signature can also be executed by way of the Annotate tab. You possibly can add a couple of signature and these are added by way of the keyboard, trackpad, or a picture. So as to add the signature to your PDF simply drag and drop from the signature pane. You an additionally add a watermark your self, maybe your organization brand, moderately than having one added for you as is the case with among the different trials checked out right here.
Resizing a big PDF was straightforward because of a Excessive/Low slider that indicated the dimensions of the ensuing file. There was additionally the choice to merge information, mix a number of paperwork into one PDF, or particular person pages from a number of paperwork.
We had one PDF that was scanned on our iPhone by way of the Notes app (we clarify the way to scan a doc with an iPhone individually). Clearly such a doc will solely be acknowledged by the PDF editor if the editor has OCR talents which are unlocked within the trial. PDFExpert couldn’t do that so we weren’t capable of edit the textual content within the scanned doc, though we had been ready so as to add hyperlinks to sections of that doc. Clearly, we couldn’t search the scanned doc, or edit the textual content there.
We had been capable of search regular PDFs although, and we had been capable of seek for a phrase and redact each prevalence of it both by blacking it out, or deleting it.
We had been capable of export the PDF into Phrase, PowerPoint and Excel, in addition to to Textual content and Picture.
It’s a free seven-day trial, so in the event you want the software program for longer than that and don’t wish to pay up then you would need to look elsewhere. However in the event you don’t want one thing long run this trial affords every thing you want.