Features

PDF Suite features for every document task

PDF Suite combines six products in one licence: a reader, a creator, a converter, an editor, a form filler and a security toolkit. Below is what each part of the application does and when you would use it.

PDF Reader

Open and read any PDF the way it was meant to look.

  • Text search across the whole document
  • Bookmarks, thumbnails and page navigation
  • Read view for long documents and e-books

The PDF Suite reader opens long reports, e-books and scanned manuals quickly, with single page, continuous and two-page spread views. Full text search jumps to any word, bookmarks keep your place, and thumbnails make navigating a 400 page document straightforward. Zoom, rotate and reading layout settings are remembered per document, so you continue exactly where you stopped.

PDF Creator

Turn anything you already have into a clean PDF.

  • Create from files, clipboard, scanner or URL
  • Merge several documents into one PDF
  • Control page size, metadata and compression

Create PDFs from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, the clipboard, a scanner or a web URL. The virtual printer means any program that can print can produce a PDF Suite document. Combine several sources into one file, insert or delete pages, and set the metadata, page size and compression before saving.

PDF Converter

Move content between PDF and the formats your team uses.

  • PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and TXT
  • PDF to JPG, PNG and TIFF images
  • PDF/A output for archiving

Export a PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT, HTML, PDF/A or an image format, keeping paragraphs, tables and fonts close to the original. Batch conversion handles whole folders at once, and PDF/A output is available when documents must be archived to a long term standard.

PDF Editor

Change the document itself, not just a copy of it.

  • Edit text, fonts and images in place
  • Move, rotate, extract and delete pages
  • Watermarks, headers, footers and links

Edit text directly on the page, reflow paragraphs, change fonts and colours, and replace or resize images. Reorganize the document by moving, rotating, extracting or deleting pages, then add watermarks, headers, footers, page numbers and links. Everything happens in the same window, so a small correction takes seconds.

PDF Form Filler

Fill in forms you receive and build the ones you send.

  • Fill and save interactive forms
  • Build forms with fields, checkboxes and lists
  • Digital signature support

Complete interactive forms and save your entries, or type into flat scanned forms with the typewriter tool. Create your own surveys, purchase orders and onboarding documents with text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and combo boxes, then collect and export the submitted data.

PDF Security

Decide who can open, print or copy your documents.

  • 256-bit password protection
  • Permission restrictions for print and copy
  • Permanent redaction and whiteout

Apply 256-bit password encryption, restrict printing, copying and editing, and permanently redact confidential text or images so removed content cannot be recovered. Add stamps and sticky notes during review, then flatten the file before it is distributed outside your organisation.

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