Pdf Editor For Mac Reviews 2016

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The standard version for MacOS allows you to easily convert PDF files to Word, and comes with a score of basic editing tools that allow you to treat any PDF as if it were a word processor file.
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Microsoft Office 2016 (for Mac)

Editor Rating: Excellent (4.5)

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$100.00

Pros
Improved performance. Strong OS X integration. Seamless cloud-based sharing with Office for Windows, iOS, and Android. Familiar features and interface for Windows users.
Cons
Requires OS X 10.10 or later. A few minor first-release glitches.
Bottom Line
Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac is worth the five-year wait it took to get here. It's still by far the most powerful set of productivity apps for Apple computers, fitting more smoothly into OS X than ever, while adding cloud support. And the free preview version is stable enough for most people to use day to day.

Microsoft Office 2016 for the Mac is the kind of upgrade I hope for but rarely get. It took five years from Office 2011's release to get this latest Mac office suite, but it was well worth the wait. Almost everything is improved, with a bright, spacious interface, yet the learning curve is almost flat. That's because all of the suite's essential features work as they always did, though with added options and conveniences. There's nothing so startlingly new that it will get in the way of being productive. In August 2016, Microsoft released an automatic update that replaced the old 32-bit code of Office for the Mac with 64-bit code. The 64-bit version starts up faster, but otherwise it looks and acts like the earlier code, which was already an Editors' Choice for office suites.

Payment Options
Microsoft managed to make using Office for the Mac easy for anyone familiar with Office for Windows, while also integrating it more closely than ever into the OS X ecosystem. Office 365 subscribers can download Office 2016 for as little as $6.99 per month for one license, or $69.99 per year. If you prefer the traditional buy-once-use-forever model, Office Home and Business will run you $229.99 for one license. A stripped-down Office Home and Student is also available for a $149.99 one-time fee. The main difference in Home and Student is that it does not include Outlook or Access. If you can't afford even the $6.99 per month, you might try the free LibreOffice, but you'll be sacrificing some polish and capabilities by doing so.

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Improved Everything
Office 2016 looks and acts better than Office 2011—and it closely resembles Office 2016 for Windows. The ribbon interface is redesigned, with the same flat look as the Windows version and the Office mobile apps. The Mac version features a modern task-pane interface for selecting text styles, building formulas, and similar features. Long-term Windows users will rejoice that Windows key assignments, such as Ctrl-O for Open and Ctrl-F for Find, now also work in the Mac version. There's no need to remember to press Cmd instead of Ctrl.

Mac-Native
The suite also gets Mac-native features like pinch-to-zoom as well as support for Retina displays, so text and graphics have sharper resolution than ever before. Word and PowerPoint allow simultaneous editing by multiple users. Under the hood, the whole suite has been rewritten with up-to-date code, and it runs only on the most recent versions of OS X, specifically Yosemite and El Capitan.

Online sharing via Microsoft's SharePoint service or its OneDrive cloud-based service is seamless among all Office platforms. You can stop work on one platform and pick up exactly where you left off on another—I tried it with the Mac, Windows, and iPad versions—and you can easily restore earlier versions of files saved to the cloud. It would be nice to have built-in iCloud integration, but I doubt it's going to happen any time soon.

Components
The Mac version of the suite comprises Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Microsoft updated Outlook and OneNote prior to this release, so the latest versions of these two components are only a minor, though welcome, upgrade. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are all faster, easier to use, and more elegant. Most features are almost identical those of the Windows versions, but not all. For example, the Mac version can't import PDF files and create editable Office documents from the contents, but the Windows version can. However, PowerPoint for the Mac continues to outclass the Windows version in its Reorder Objects feature. On the Mac, you reorder objects by dragging them forward or back in an animated three-dimensional view, while in Windows you drag objects up and down in a less convenient list format.

A few features have disappeared from the previous version. For example, the Publishing Layout option in Word that made Word act more like a page-layout app rather than a word processor is gone, as is the ability to rearrange the tab order on the Ribbon.

Apple's Word competitor Pages simply can't compete on power-user features like advanced typography and footnotes and endnotes. Likewise, Numbers trails Excel when it comes to advanced scientific and technical work. Keynote, on the other hand, is better than PowerPoint in many ways. It lacks some of the technical abilities of Microsoft's offering, but it's impressively powerful and creates amazing-looking presentations, winning it the Editors' Choice for OS X. Overall, Apple's suite is quite good. As a whole, however, Office trumps it.

Interface
The Ribbon interface on the Mac closely matches that of the Windows version, with the same tabs and features on both platforms, though with slight differences to match the operating system—for example, the Mac version supplements the Ribbon with a top-line menu, like the menu in all other OS X apps, though the Windows version has only the Ribbon.

As in the Windows versions of Office, Word gets a Style pane instead of a floating Inspector panel, Excel gets a Formula-building pane, PowerPoint gets an Animation pane. Word and PowerPoint get threaded comments—comments that can be linked to earlier comments to create collapsible discussion threads. Excel gets the strong Recommended Charts feature from the Windows version—and also PivotTable Slicers and improved AutoComplete. Word for the Mac finally gets the one feature I've wanted forever—the ability to click on the blank space between pages and hide the page header and footer, so that text flows from one page to the next with only a thin line between the pages, not an inch or more of blank space.

I noted one first-release glitch when I originally looked at Office for the Mac when it first released in 2015. When I saved a Word document to PDF, the hyperlinks in the saved PDF didn't work, because an extra character somehow got added to the Web address. The problem has been fixed in the latest update, however.

Mac MVP
Overall, Office 2016 for the Mac is a highly successful update, bringing the best of Office to Apple users. If you're choosing an office suite, the choice is clear for anyone who needs advanced features. Word and Excel surpass Apple's Pages and Numbers, and PowerPoint is close enough to Apple's superb Keynote to keep Office users from envying Keynote users. Office for the Mac is the clear winner of the Editors' Choice award for OS X office suites.

Editing a PDF file is a tricky task – this file format is a solid one and originally it is not supposed to be edited. However, if you have the right program at hand, there shouldn’t be any difficulties with editing a PDF file. The problem is that finding a decent program that corresponds to your needs might be more difficult than it first seems. Some PDF editing software is great for documents containing text, others would be quite helpful when it comes to working with graphic elements of PDF files. Many programs and online tools that claim to be PDF editors turn out to be simple PDF creators. For this review we tested many PDF editors but we can only recommend half of them. Take a look at our review to help you find the best PDF editor for your PC.

1. Foxit PhantomPDF
To download this program you are required to insert your email, first and last name, company and phone number, which is definitely inconvenient. This program has a 30-day trial period. Foxit PhantomPDF has an OCR system, so whether you are working with a PDF file that was scanned or with files that were converted to PDF, you can still edit the text like you would with any other text editor. We like this PDF editor a lot. It can edit text, add links, graphic elements, images, audio and video, add text markup, highlight areas, work with comments, add stamps and forms, rotate pages, and much more. And all these features are easily accessible from the intuitive menu. You can open several files at a time and they will be kept in separate tabs, which is very convenient when working on multiple documents.

Pros: OCR system, can do all the possible edits, works with password-protected files
Cons: Takes up 483 MB, personal data is required before downloading
License: 30-day trial, 89USD license cost
Rating by Icecream Tech Digest: 9/10

Review: Foxit PhantomPDF is an awesome all-in-one PDF editor that is capable of all sorts of editing for text and graphics.

2. Nitro Pro 10
Unfortunately Nitro Pro 10 now only has a 14-days trial period, and the license costs as much as 159.99 USD – definitely expensive. Before you download the program you have to enter your name, last name, email address, phone number and your business details, which was also rather confusing. Nitro Pro 10 has a whole suite for quality work with PDF files. If you wish to edit a file as a text, you can turn on the OCR feature to proceed with bringing edits to a PDF document just like to any other text file. Paragraphs of text can be moved around the list my means of the drag and drop mechanism. You can add images, insert blank pages, insert elements from a file, clipboard or scanner, and delete, crop and rotate pages of a document. Extraction, splitting and replacing pages is also supported by this PDF editor. In addition to that you can add watermarks, page numbers, headers and footers, notes, stamps, links, and drawings. Adding comments and attaching files is also perfectly supported by Nitro Pro 10. Users can add forms, sign their documents, secure them with a password and even upload them to a cloud storage.

Pros: OCR system, user-friendly interface, a lot of advanced features, works with password-protected files
Cons:None
License: 15-day trial, 159.99 USD license cost
Rating by Icecream Tech Digest: 8/10

Review: Nitro Pro 10 is a serious all-in-one suite for advanced work with PDF files. If you’re looking for a simple PDF editor this software might be too advanced for you.

3. LibreOffice Draw
LibreOffice Draw is a PDF editor from a LibreOffice open source software package. It can edit text from a document exactly like in LibreOffice Writer, so there are actually plenty of useful features you can work with. Graphic elements like arrows, stars and rectangles can be added to your PDF. You can add diagrams and tables, change the layout of a page, and add macros, video, audio, objects and frames. This PDF editor can ease up your work with text documents in PDF format considerably and it perfectly opens PDFs protected with a password. The interface is neat to work with, everything is clear and not that hard to understand.

Pros: Edits text, adds graphic elements, works like LibreOffice Writer
Cons: No OCR system, opens new documents in a separate window
License:Free
Rating by Icecream Tech Digest: 8/10

Review: LibreOffice Draw is a great PDF editor that offers a lot of options to work with a document just like it’s a text file.

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4. AbleWord
AbleWord is a really awesome PDF editor if the documents you are working with were previously converted to PDF from a text format. Basically, you can open such a file in AbleWord and work with it just like in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer. Edit text, add tables, highlight, work with font, change the alignments of text – you’re able to do everything with this compact program. We tried a scanned document and it was recognized as an image, so unfortunately we couldn’t edit this type of a file as a text. When we added some elements to the scanned document page in AbleWord, the new edits were for some reason appearing behind the initial image. Also, this program can’t help you if a PDF is protected with a password – such a document won’t be opened at all.

Pros: Edits text easily, simple-to-navigate interface, compact size
Cons: No OCR system, doesn’t work with password-protected documents
License:Free
Rating by Icecream Tech Digest: 7/10

Review: AbleWord is an amazing, compact tool if you’re looking for an easy way to edit your PDF documents with text (not scanned).

5. Inkscape
Inkscape is a famous PDF editor that offers plenty of features to edit PDF files. The interface is a bit overloaded with buttons and looks a bit outdated, but still it’s not that difficult to navigate. When compared to other programs like AbleWord or LibreOffice Draw, working with text in Inkscape is rather complicated. You can delete text easily, but entering new text turns out to be difficult – you need to manually select the font and the size so that the new text fits into an old one. Working with graphics is much easier – there are plenty of elements to be added to the PDF you are trying to edit. Inkscape lets you work with layers, paths, filters and plenty of extended settings for comfortable work with PDF files.

Pros: Variety of tools to edit graphics, advanced settings
Cons: Doesn’t work with password-protected files, complicated text editing
License:Free
Rating by Icecream Tech Digest: 7/10

Review: Inkscape can be quite useful when it comes to editing graphics, however editing PDF files with text is quite a challenge.

6. Expert PDF Editor
Expert PDF Editor is a decent PDF editor that is rather easy to navigate and has a nice interface. It supports the OCR system (languages) and opening password-protected files. Unfortunately you can’t edit the text if your document has a password; you can only highlight the text and add new text right over the existing one. As for the graphics, you can add sticky notes, random lines by means of pencil, add stamps, ellipses, rectangles and images, sign, add watermarks and page numbers, and add forms. Pages of a document can be cropped, rotated and adjusted in size. Adding a password to secure a file is available. Several files can be opened and kept in separate tabs. The program has a 15-day trial period, which is a shorter period of time than usual software offers.

Pros: Easy to use, offers basic editing options
Cons: Doesn’t edit text
License: 15-day trial, 66.2 USD license cost
Rating by Icecream Tech Digest: 6/10

Review: Expert PDF Editor is simple to use. This decent PDF editor offers a basic set of editing options but can’t edit text.

PDF Editors We Didn’t Include:

DL PDF Editor
Technically, it does edit PDFs, but it only offers three ways of doing that: inserting an image, inserting a watermark or inserting text. All three types of multimedia are added right over the document you are working with, so there’s no way you can make corrections to the document without them being noticed. The program also doesn’t work with password-protected files – when we tried opening one, the DL PDF Editor crashed.

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PDFCool Free Studio
The process of installing this program turned out to be a whole adventure. You think you have download the program itself, but then you get a manager-type page of the developer’s software and once you set this up, within it you have to select the PDFCool Studio Free once again. The interface of the program corresponds with the installation process – it took us a while to figure out which features we could use and in which way.

Nuance Power PDF
This software costs 99.95 USD and there is no trial period, just a 30-day money back guarantee. We find it rather misleading to purchase something at this price; you should at least be able to test it to see if you like it or not.

PDF-Xchange Editor
This PDF editor has a limitation in the features in its free version, so we couldn’t see if it is capable of editing PDF files. Plus, for a freemium software, the interface should at least be worthy of its price.

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jPDF Tweak
This is an open source PDF editor that offers some features like changing page size, adding watermarks, adding page numbers and bookmarks and some others, but with the interface the program has we can barely recommend it.

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PDFedit
We opened a file and started testing it in PDFedit. When it came to inserting new text in an opened PDF file, the program kept crashing. Plus the interface will definitely make you feel nostalgic for the ’90s.

Finding a PDF editor that suits all your demands and offers a decent amount of features with a modern and easy-to-use interface is quite a task. We hope we reviewed enough PDF editing software for you to make your final choice.