Typewriter feature… A bit of a marketing gimmick it is essenitally an 'add Text' annotation.

Good use and implementation of the various compression schemes. Compressing… Smart use of compression provides an optimum between file size and handling speed.For this feature, there are other good products out in the market.

Combining… Again, it is the library Adobe developed (for their own and for licenceable use), which can very well read, understand and write PDF.This library is considered to be top class, and therefore, using it does make a lot of sense… Converting to PDF is, of course, a side effect of the PDF-creation library Adobe uses in their other applications (InDesign, Illustrator, PostScript, etc.).However, there are other implementations out there, and anyone is free to do something following ISO 32000… In detail: And Adobe has the market power… which they do use.Īpple would have the resources to do something useful, but Apple gives a shit about PDF (that's obvious, considering Preview.app messing up certain PDF documents beyond all repair).Ībout the features mentioned in the OP… Most of these implementations by Adobe are well done, and kind of mature technology. Why Acrobat? Well, Adobe has 25 years of experience and knowledge on how to create a PDF viewer. Tough to reengineer or if there are patents protecting the format?įirst and foremost, there is the ISO 32000 standard, and anyone is free to create a viewer which is compliant to that standard. but for Mac?ĭoes somebody could help out, and state if the technology is really Windows their is at least Foxit and Nitro. Protecting Adobe? Why is there no competition earning the name? For That was the time I started to ask myself, are there patents Again I was shocked, either the UI was really bad or the features were not even close to Adobe DC. Then I tried to research and test alternatives using this page and also Mac's own tools (Automater, Preview). I was shocked and thought thats way to much for a software just moving data from one format to another! Looking at the price I either could pay 29,74 € a month on demand, or up front either 17,84*12= 214,08 € per year or 665,21 € ones. Having a MacOS I sadly had to realize I could only get the Adobe Acrobat DC Pro, because the Standard is not available for my OS. Really liking the software I thought about buying it. (really delete) blacken content to send around without exposing confidential parts of a document.Use the typewriter feature to fill out forms.Compress - Enhance and test around compression.

Combine - Merge multiple pdfs into one document and order them.

I recently started working and came to know AdobeAcrobat DC which I really, really like as a tool to archive and send around information.

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