Compare the Top PDF Software for Windows as of April 2026 - Page 4

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    PDFKit.NET 5.0

    PDFKit.NET 5.0

    TallComponents

    Create and manipulate PDF documents. Split, append, stamp, encrypt, extract, fill, and more. PDFKit.NET is a 100% managed (verifiable) .NET class library for creating and manipulating PDF documents. It consists of just a single assembly that can be xcopy-deployed. It has no dependencies other than the .NET framework. Central to PDFKit.NET is a consistent and highly intuitive object model consisting of classes like document, page collection, page, canvas, shape, bookmark, annotation, field, etc. The focus of the development team is always to ease the task of integrating our class library into a larger application. Fill text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc., and save the form either editable or flattened with the PDFKit.NET 5.0. With PDFKit.NET 5.0 you can populate and consume dynamic XFA documents with the new XFA processor API. Extract all graphics on a page as a collection of shapes with PDFKit 5.0. Shapes can be text, images, and curves.
    Starting Price: $990 per year
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    TallPDF.NET 5.0

    TallPDF.NET 5.0

    TallComponents

    Generate PDF on the fly, from scratch, use code, XML/XSL, or a combination. Central to TallPDF.NET is a consistent and intuitive object model consisting of layout classes like document, section, text paragraph, table, header, footer, etc. Among the specializations of class paragraph is drawing. Use it to draw many types of shapes such as lines, bezier curves, and even barcodes. Use pens and brushes to draw outlines and fills. Instead of building a Document programmatically, you can load it (partly) from XML. In general, you will use XSL to transform from a given XML schema to XML that can be consumed by TallPDF.NET. Headers and footers are added to each page that matches the specified page traits (first, odd, even, last). Include dynamic content such as current page number and total page count. Add Tables to a section. Add rows to a table. Add cells to a row and add any paragraph to a cell. Specify spacings, margins, borders, and backgrounds.
    Starting Price: $990 per year
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    PitStop Pro
    The comprehensive PDF tool for prepress. Confidently preflight and edit PDF files for print. Automatic fixes make prepress more efficient. The global user base of over 135,000. Adobe Acrobat® plug-in ensures standardized PDF. PitStop Pro is the industry standard for PDF validation. It is the one tool that gives prepress power over PDF. PitStop solves pre-flighting, editing, repairing, and reporting for any PDF challenge your team will face. PitStop Pro will generate a preflight report based on the benchmarks that you choose. The interactive report can be as basic or detailed as you require to suit your customers. A PitStop Pro preflight report contains a clickable list of warnings and errors that visually indicate exactly where the issue is located. PitStop provides a molecular look into the construction of a PDF file. It allows prepress personnel to dissect a PDF file to explore and investigate its components and its structure.
    Starting Price: $32 per month
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    PDFRasterizer.NET 4.0
    Render a PDF page as PNG or JPG at any resolution. Starting with version 4.0, we use the Skia 2D graphics library to render PDF pages. It is possible to render directly to a Skia surface. Render a page to single-page TIFF or a document to multi-page TIFF. Specify options such as pixel format, compression and resolution.
    Starting Price: $990 per year
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    Coolmuster PDF Creator Pro
    This is not a single-functional tool, it is a multi-functional PDF Maker program. With it, you can create your own PDF files from 7 different formats, so that you can share and manage files on computer more effectively. Want to convert a batch of PDF files to PDF or only want to convert the specific file? No matter what is your converting needs, this tool can meet your demands. In order to satisfy all user's needs, this PDF Maker Pro have set lots of options for your reference. With the different options, you can choose the one you like to add, edit or convert files without any limitation. Don't want to spend too much time on creating files? Just try this PDF Creator Pro. With it, you can create PDF files from different files at seconds. You are allowed to customize the PDF's page size, document margins and security options. Owner password, user password or detailed permissions can be applied to the output PDF files.
    Starting Price: $19.95 1 Month License
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    Lumin PDF

    Lumin PDF

    Lumin PDF

    We are the bridge between paper and the cloud, our seamless PDF workflows help you achieve greater impact with less administration. Edit PDFs within Google Workspace. Open Lumin directly from Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Classroom. Uploading old documents to the cloud has never been easier. Get your team on the same page with real-time feedback and manual tools. Submit work, negotiate terms, and sign everything with Lumin Sign. Enjoy our comprehensive free plan for K-12 teachers and students. Our products are implemented using a rigorous and constantly updated security system. We also have a Google-verified storage system that ensures your files never have to leave Google Drive. Collaborate with your current colleagues and attract new ones with Lumin and Lumin Sign. Our innovative solutions are great on their own, but together they're even better. Lumin reduces the comings and goings of your team. With a cloud workspace integrated with Google, you can collaborate in real-time.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    LynxPDF

    LynxPDF

    Kdan Mobile Software

    LynxPDF is a one-stop enterprise-level PDF solution. It integrates core functions such as editing, conversion, signing, and encryption while supporting advanced enterprise features, including offline capabilities, self-hosted deployment, batch processing, and single sign-on (SSO) to ensure document security and optimize enterprise workflows. LynxPDF also supports Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), which leverages AI-driven techniques to capture key information from documents, images, and tables, improving data processing efficiency and reducing manual input errors. By providing a flexible and secure environment, LynxPDF empowers enterprises to enhance document management efficiency, strengthen data security, and seamlessly integrate AI-driven document processing into their business workflows.
    Starting Price: $1349.90/permanent/10 seats
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    VeryPDF

    VeryPDF

    VeryPDF

    VeryPDF provides a comprehensive suite of PDF tools, multimedia applications, and development packages for Windows, macOS, and the web, covering every stage of document processing. Its flagship offerings include converters for PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, TXT, images or any other format; a full-featured PDF Editor that lets you modify content, metadata and page elements or generate PDFs from Word, PowerPoint, Excel and text files; a virtual printer (docPrint) for high-quality printing and manual conversion; OCR-powered converters for scanned documents; utilities for splitting, merging, watermarking, stamping, encrypting, decrypting, compressing and repairing PDFs; form-filling, table- and text-extraction tools; flipbook and multimedia converters; and command-line SDKs and APIs for seamless integration into custom applications.
    Starting Price: $39.95 per month
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    Adobe Acrobat Studio
    Adobe Acrobat Studio is the newest evolution of Adobe’s trusted PDF platform, combining AI-powered insights with industry-leading PDF and e-signature tools. It introduces PDF Spaces, a conversational knowledge hub where users can chat with documents, summarize content, and receive precise citations. With an integrated AI Assistant, Acrobat Studio helps businesses and individuals quickly understand contracts, reports, and other critical files. The solution also includes Adobe Express Premium, enabling the creation of flyers, infographics, and social posts with professional templates and AI-generated design tools. Security features like Protect PDF, SSL encryption, and compliant e-signatures ensure safe sharing and collaboration. Trusted by over 5 million companies, Acrobat Studio is designed to help people work faster, smarter, and more creatively.
    Starting Price: $24.99/month
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    CleverPDF

    CleverPDF

    CleverPDF

    The team at CleverPDF has been providing document reconstruction solutions for years. In 2017, we decided to launch this website, providing PDF conversion and editing tools online, for FREE, so PDF users can easily deal with the daily task all in the web browser. We also partnered with the industrial leading PDF solution provider and provide a desktop version for Mac and Windows users. The cleverPDF team will keep improving our website and service. Hope you enjoy it! Added 5 more new features, including odt to PDF, reorder and delete pages, extract images and image converter. Improve Asian characters conversion feature, the upgrade will greatly enhance the conversion quality for PDF in Chinese. Converting Word to PDF is super easy with CleverPDF. Just 2 steps, upload your Word document and click 'Start conversion' button, we will do the rest in our servers. You can download the file instantly.
    Starting Price: Free
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    iText

    iText

    Apryse

    Now part of the Apryse family, iText is one of the best-documented and most versatile PDF SDKs in the world. The open-source iText Core library features a powerful layout engine and intuitive high-level APIs for document creation and manipulation, digital signing and validation, and much more. It has built-in support for PDF 2.0, all variants of PDF/A and PDF/UA, FIPS-140-2 and the very latest ISO standards for digital signatures and encryption. You can extend iText's capabilities even further, with add-ons for comprehensive HTML/XML and CSS templating, global language and writing systems, secure document redaction, OCR, document optimization, and working with dynamic XFA. iText Core is free to use under the AGPLv3 license, while a commercial license releases you from the AGPL terms and gives you professional support and maintenance. Visit the iText website to try the entire iText Suite free for 30 days, while keeping your IP safe under iText's commercial license terms.
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    FlipBuilder

    FlipBuilder

    FlipBuilder

    Convert Static PDF Magazines/Brochures/Catalogs into Interactive, Media Rich eBooks That Can Be Viewed, Shared and Distributed on Web, Social and Mobile. Our software makes it easy and simple for publishers to create elegant eBooks and responsive digital magazines from PDF documents. Flipbook software to convert original PDF files into stunning digital booklets with amazing page-flipping animations and sound! Allows you to embed video, audio, Flash and links into Page-flipping eBooks, use command line to automate eBooks creation. Flipbuilder is dedicated to making the best products possible. From design to delivery we focus on simplicity in use and power in function. Our range of applications include tools for converting almost any kind of document to elegant flip books. The flip book software series is ideal if you want to make interactive eBooks, distribute online magazines, newspapers, business brochures, corporate reports, event leaflets/flyers, annual reports, newsletters, etc.
    Starting Price: $49.00
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    SWING PDF Converter for Notes
    SWING PDF Converter for Notes exports IBM Lotus Notes emails, documents and databases to PDF+XML. The tool introduces greatly simplified email and document export and archiving capabilities to IBM Notes/Domino. It adds the PDF icon to the Lotus Notes toolbar, which lets users convert one or more Notes emails or documents. Domino Administrators can archive entire databases or particular views/folders without user intervention. LotusScript API is provided for application developers. Any collection of Lotus Notes emails or documents (e.g. project-related or case-related emails/documents) can be exported into either individual PDF (or PDF/A) files, or merged into a PDF binder with the navigation tree, or saved as compact, searchable PDF Package. Domino Administrators may need to archive entire databases or particular views/folders across multiple databases without user intervention. For instance, a conversion job can be configured to extract emails from specific folders.
    Starting Price: $250.00/one-time/user
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    Mapsoft

    Mapsoft

    Mapsoft Computer Services

    Mapsoft provides a wide variety of plug-ins for the Adobe® Acrobat® platform and server based PDF solutions including our Engage personalization products and web based solutions. Our Acrobat and server based plug-ins allow users to edit, markup and modify pdf documents for distribution and publishing purposes. Tools include Bookmarking, Table of Contents, stamping (including bates), page numbering, masking, changing media sizes and contents, security, optimizing and many more. Free tryout versions of all our products are available, and as all our products come with one year's free technical support as standard you can buy from Mapsoft secure in the knowledge that help is always available should you need it.
    Starting Price: $1449.00/one-time
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    Filestar

    Filestar

    Filestar

    Do anything to any file. Tens of thousands of skills at your fingertips. Quickly convert files in a few clicks. Choose from over 30 000 file conversions. Both common and unusual file formats. Single files or in bulk. Easily merge one or many files at once. Combine files for many different file types. Merge documents, video, audio, Visio or other file formats. Split large files with many pages into several separate ones. For text file formats like .pdf, .doc and .txt. Divide files and documents into parts. Change or alter files. Rotate, add filters, replace file names, add watermarks, add text to images, and much more. One at a time or many at once. Simply compress or reduce the file size of your files. Wide selection of file compression formats and zip options to choose from. Smoothly extract selected pages or elements from a document. Collect images out of a file, or get all images or text from a document.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    PDFill

    PDFill

    PlotSoft

    Please try PDFill if you're looking for an inexpensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat. You can use the Free PDF Writer to create free PDF or Image from any printable application. You can use the Free PDF Tools to merge, split, reorder, delete, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop and reformat PDF pages, add information/header/footer/watermark, convert image to PDF or PDF to image, scan a Paper to PDF, and more. You can use the FREE PDF Editor to fill the form, type text, comment, create form, and more. Besides, with a fraction of the cost of Adobe Acrobat, PDFill PDF Editor can do more than the free Adobe Reader. Group texts, shapes or pictures into a complicated object. Lock the object from editing. Save the PDFill Object and use it later easily. Scan your paper form or photo directly into a new or existing PDF document, then you can fill it in using a computer!
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    SCHEMA ST4

    SCHEMA ST4

    SCHEMA Group

    The SCHEMA Group was established in Nuremberg in 1995 and is a medium-sized software manufacturer with more than 130 employees. The SCHEMA Group produces component content management and content delivery solutions for authoring departments creating product-related content. The SCHEMA ST4 component content management system is one of the most frequently used systems for the modularised creation of documentation, package inserts and marketing documentation. The system covers all areas of creation, versioning, variant control, translation, management and publication of product-related content – from authoring assistance during input to the finished layout for the printed catalog. A documentation portal based on Quanos InfoCube provides a central point of contact on the Internet where all technical documentation is available. Users can quickly and precisely find the right content in the entire information inventory with an easy-to-use search system.
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    Icecream PDF Converter
    Meet free PDF converter that enables you to convert to PDF format and vice versa. While converting to PDF (Word to PDF, JPG to PDF, ePub to PDF, etc.) you can merge all files into a single PDF, as well as use various output file settings. You can convert PDF to DOC, JPG and other formats. Icecream PDF Converter has a built-in PDF reader and supports password-protected files. PDF Converter is available on Windows 10, 8, 7 and XP. Use free PDF converter to convert files to and from PDF format easily. Add multiple files to the queue of the PDF Converter and convert them in a single click. Recognize text in scanned PDFs to create editable Word documents. Choose page size, orientation and margins; rotate and select content position converting images (JPG to PDF, TIFF to PDF, etc.). Select page ranges of a PDF file to convert to images.Merge several documents or images in one PDF file. Convert files of any size both from and to PDF.
    Starting Price: $19.95 one-time payment
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    Ashampoo PDF Pro
    The universal PDF editor - create, edit and convert with ease. Ashampoo PDF Pro 2 is the complete solution to manage and edit your PDF documents. The program has everything you need to create, convert, edit, merge and protect your PDFs. Create perfectly sized documents that are readable on any device and use encryption to protect your property when needed. Your PDFs are now as easily editable as Word documents! If you use Ashampoo® PDF Pro 2 at home, you can run it on up to 3 PCs! A single license is enough to provide your entire family with a powerful office suite! If you use it commercially though, it's one license per installation. Ashampoo PDF Pro is not only ideal to fill out forms but also to create and edit your own. It takes only a few clicks to add interactive elements, like selection lists, checkboxes or input fields, to your PDF form. These forms can then easily be filled out by anyone using a standard PDF reader.
    Starting Price: $30 one-time payment
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    CutePDF

    CutePDF

    Acro Software

    CutePDF Writer: Easiest Free PDF Converter. Convert to professional quality PDF file from any printable document. New version 4.0 has more settings and do more. Windows 10 and Server 2019 Ready. CutePDF Professional: Easy-to-use PDF Utility. Seamlessly integrate with CutePDF Writer. Make PDF booklets, impose (n-Up pages), combine PDF files, add watermarks, edit forms, add comments, add headers and footers, rearrange pages, security, digital signature, scan, FTP and much more. Integrate PDF creation ability into any application, solution or service. Fully support programmatic access. Use your own PDF printer name. Support both silent installation and un-installation. Windows 10 and Server 2019 Ready.
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    Aiseesoft PDF Converter Ultimate
    It lets you convert PDF files with texts, images, layout and format to Word/RTF file so that you can edit losslessly. Advanced OCR technology can accurately recognize languages like English, French, Chinese, etc. in PDF file. Convert all, selected PDF pages to other formats or convert more than one PDF files at a time. With OCR technology, the software recognizes over 190 languages like English, French, or Chinese, artificial languages and programming languages, simple chemical formulas and more. So it is strong enough to extract text from image based PDF files as editing text with keeping its original format and graph lossless. This all-in-one PDF Converter enables you to import multiple PDF files and convert all of these PDF files to different output formats at one time, or convert a section of a PDF file to remarkably improve your work efficiency.
    Starting Price: $16 per PC per month
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    Synap PDFocus

    Synap PDFocus

    Synapsoft

    Synap PDFocus converts and merges documents in more than 30 different formats into PDF without any application installation. Disarmed and reconstructed PDF documents can be created to be shared and the document management efficiency is improved by merging different document formats into a single PDF format. Converts HTML, MS Office, and electronic approval formats into a single high-quality PDF document with no application installation. Document management efficiency is improved by merging different format documents into a single PDF format. Detects/removes items suspected of being malicious codes and reconstructing them into PDF, with SynapSoft’s proprietary format processing technology. Electronic approval document and attached files are saved as a single PDF file and kept. Receives an email after converting to a PDF for safe attachment verification. Merges educational materials in different formats into PDF and provides them as a single file.
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    PDFlib

    PDFlib

    PDFlib

    PDFlib GmbH is completely focused on PDF technology. Customers are using our products since 1997. In 2006 we were one of the founding members of the PDF Association (formerly PDF/A Competence Center). The company closely follows development and market trends such as ISO standards for PDF. PDFlib GmbH products are distributed all over the world with major markets in Europe, North America and Japan. PDFlib is a well-established developer component for generating and manipulating PDF documents. PDFlib’s main targets are dynamic PDF creation on a web server and PDF creation in any kind of server, desktop or mobile application. You can use PDFlib to dynamically create PDF documents from database contents, similar to dynamic Web pages. Since 1997 PDFlib has proven itself in a wide range of use cases and development environments. Application programmers use PDFlib to create PDF output with text, images, graphics and interactive elements.
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    Foxit PDF SDK

    Foxit PDF SDK

    Foxit Software

    Our high-performance libraries add robust PDF functionality to enterprise, mobile, and cloud applications across all platforms: Web, Windows, Android, iOS, Mac, UWP and Linux, using the most popular developer languages and environments. Build on a modern tech stack that integrates tightly with the platform you’re working on. We continuously improve our products and they gain new features every month. We grow with you as your requirements change and your project evolves. Our core API is designed from the ground up to deliver a seamless development experience across all platforms, without requiring deep PDF knowledge. Foxit is known for our management of edge cases, and for working with 100% of PDF files across all standards. With only one SDK to work with, you dramatically reduce your exposure to third parties. We provide sample, projects, demos, API docs and more for every single feature in the PDF SDK to get you up to speed quickly. You will receive support by real developers.
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    PassportPDF
    This modern cloud infrastructure offers freemium microservices, productivity-oriented solutions in many fields such as compression, unified APIs working on any platform, on any client, from any programming language, and a new SaaS licensing. A guide and complete documentation provide all the necessary steps for authentication, communication with the API, processing documents, and managing errors. There is also a section about best practices regarding efficiency. Minimalistic and straightforward ASP.NET Core MVC application which demonstrates how to use DocuVieware through the PassportPDF Rest API to visualize documents. This application will evolve over time, as other similar demos are implemented. Minimalistic and straightforward ASP.NET 4.6.2 application which demonstrates how to use DocuVieware through the PassportPDF Rest API to visualize documents. This application will evolve over time, as other similar demos are implemented.
    Starting Price: $6,000 per year
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    WorkinTool PDF Converter
    Practical All-in-One Desktop PDF Conversion Software. WorkinTool PDF converter is a useful all-in-one desktop PDF conversion tool with a user-friendly interface and clear navigation. Installing it on your PC within seconds, you will have a PDF reader, converter, combiner, splitter, compressor and more. Also, only a few clicks will quickly and safely lead you to your desired outcome and it works perfectly with various operating systems like Windows and macOS. PDF to Word Convert PDF files to editable Word documents like doc and docx with 100% accurate format PDF to Excel Turn PDF files into easy-to-edit Excel spreadsheets like xls and xlsx PDF to PowerPoint Change PDF files to editable PowerPoint (PPT) slideshows like ppt and pptx PDF to JPG Save each page of a PDF as separate images or extract all the images from it Convert from Word to PDF Make a Word document (doc and docx) into a PDF with ease Excel to PDF Export Excel documents (xls, xlsx and CSV) to PDF
    Starting Price: $0
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    axesPDF

    axesPDF

    axes4

    axesPDF is the most powerful tool for validating and fixing the most complex challenges faced by remediators. To make a PDF fully accessible and compliant with PDF/UA, WCAG and Section 508, axesPDF simplifies the process by making content compliant in a few clicks. Start with a tagged PDF, find accessibility issues easily and fix most of them instantly with a single click. PDF accessibility can be challenging using tools that weren't designed with accessibility as their primary focus. axesPDF looks to overcome those challenges with a specific focus on making the most complex challenges easy to address with a series of clicks in an easy-to-understand user interface. axesPDF is the only tool that can fix over 50 of the most challenging compliance requirements for PDF/UA. Testing and validating PDF/UA compliance is easy, as axesPDF provides a structured report that shows a summarized result of all 89 machine-checkable failure conditions.
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    Intratech 3D PDF Exporter
    New, fast way for delivering intelligent 3D data to support your efficiency and smart problem-solving. Dynamic and static dimensions as well as hierarchy, 3D model properties. Intratech’s Smart 3DPDF exporter creates 3D PDFs for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) and shipbuilding industries. Smart 3D PDF prevents drawing errors and end-users from misreading the drawings. PDFs of 3D models with dimensions and labels can be read using the free viewer, Adobe Reader when using Intratech software to convert them to PDFs. The ability to view the hierarchy, drawing properties as well as static and dynamic dimensions allows even inexperienced workers to intuitively understand accurate installation information. By automating dimensions and labels creation in 3D PDF, you can reduce the efforts to add information to 2D. 3D PDFs with basic installation information (dimensions and labels) enable operators to actively search for accurate information.
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    Advanced PDF Manager

    Advanced PDF Manager

    Tweaking Technologies

    Advanced PDF Manager is a straightforward, easy-to-use application that makes working with PDFs simple. You can merge, rotate, split, and do more using it. Customize and reorganize the pages of added PDF files in any view by dragging and dropping the pages over others. Merge, rotate, split, print, duplicate PDFs, add blank PDFs, and protect confidential PDF files with the powerful & excellent Advanced PDF Manager. Advanced PDF Manager for hassle-free editing allows viewing added PDFs in Collapse View, Small Multiview, Medium Multiview, and Large Multiview. Quickly merge, split, rotate, password-protect, rearrange, duplicate and print multiple files with Advanced PDF Manager. Avoid creating PDFs from scratch, and save them as new PDFs.
    Starting Price: $39.95
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    CoolPDF

    CoolPDF

    CoolPDF

    CoolPDF is a fast, robust, and affordable way to create professional-quality PDF documents for both novice and pro. CoolPDF works as a printer driver on all operating systems, making PDF files of anything that can normally be printed. CoolPDF is a very cost-effective solution for turning just about anything into a PDF. And the coolest thing about it is that it generates PDF documents extremely fast and works with almost all languages in the world. CoolPDF settings do not require much tweaking to get the quality, resolution, and file size you want, and this is easily done following the menu or the manual that comes with the software package. CoolPDF provides such quality settings as default, screen, ebook, print, and prepress optimized. The resolution of PDF documents produced by CoolPDF can be lowered to 72 dpi or enhanced to 4000 dpi. Encryption features are available for advanced users who want to secure a PDF document by setting a user password and owner password.
    Starting Price: $99 one-time payment
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