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Product Features
- The complete PDF solution to create, edit, convert & send PDFs
- Create PDFs from any printable PC application
- One click conversion of PDFs into a document that can be read and modified in Microsoft Word
- Multiple document merge – Select several documents in various formats for conversion as a single PDF
- Text editing features - Cut, copy, paste, resize text and visuals
- Graphic editing tools - Add images, geometric shapes, Bezier curves, and more to a PDF file
- Document protection - Secure and protect your PDF file with rights to print, edit, copy etc
- Easy Emailing - Convert a file to PDF and email in two clicks
- NEW! Document Management – Use Bates Numbering to index documents for easy identification and retrieval
- NEW! PDF Forms – Create interactive PDF forms for others to complete.
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Expert PDF 6 is the complete conversion tool for all your PDF needs. It lets you create, edit and view PDF files, and even convert PDFs back to Word for editing. You can add bookmarks, hyperlinks, watermarks and password protection before emailing in just two clicks!
New Features!
Document Management - Use Bates Numbering to index documents with time, date, copyrights or unique coding for easy identification and retrieval.
PDF Forms - Create interactive PDF forms with text fields, listboxes, checkboxes etc. for anyone to read and complete with just a PDF reader, using PDF forms ensures the format cannot be changed - making them more secure for home or office use!
New User Interface - simple & clean interface for easy navigation.
Key Features
Create PDFs from any printable PC application - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, photos and images.
Multiple document merge - Select several documents in various formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, URL, etc.), for conversion to single PDF, or as separate PDF files.
PDF to Word conversion - One click conversion of any PDF into a document that can be read and modified in Microsoft Word.
Integrated toolbar - Incorporated into Word and Excel toolbars.
Image conversion - Documents can be converted into popular formats: JPG, GIF, TIF etc.
Hyperlink and URL management - Add direct links within documents to websites etc.
Easy Emailing - Convert a file to PDF and email in two clicks.
Text editing features - Cut, copy, paste, resize text and visuals.
Graphic editing tools - Add images, geometric shapes, Bezier curves, and more to a PDF file.
Annotation tools - Add notes, watermarks, comments and stamps.
Document protection - Secure and protect your PDF file (password encryption) with rights to print, edit, copy etc.
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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful
I've created thousands of pdfs over the years, mainly from Word documents, and have tried lots of pdf creation software packages.
I used Ghostview/script for several years - fine but a bit clumsy. Then I tried Open Office but it always altered the layout of complex Word docs. For big documents I'd email the Word docs to my son who'd run them through the full Adobe creator. Nice results but the software's so expensive. I could get Office 2007 to create pdfs but I'm very happy with Office 2003 and know loads of its keyboard shortcuts.
Nowadays I create a lot of pdf guides to put on my website so I need something that is easy to use and creates decent quality, compact pdfs.
I found eXPertPDF v4 on a cover CD a couple of years back. I used that and v5 extensively, with excellent results. Then I paid for the upgrade to v6.
The only thing I don't really like is the way links to websites within a pdf result in the pdf being replaced by the target site when called from a website rather than opening in a new tab. But I'm assured that's how it's meant to work. So I try to limit the number of links in pdfs destined for the web.
What I like most about eXPertPDF is the control over the size vs quality of the output pdf, especially the fine control over image compression. You can even save combinations of settings for use later, eg one to produce compact, web-friendly pdfs and another for bigger, print quality outputs.
I tested a 350kb Word doc with a few images and the pdf was 121kb from eXPertPDF, 141kb from Nova PDF Lite v5 and a portly 225kb from Nuance PDF Coverter 5. The eXPertPDF and Nova outputs were just the right quality for posting to a website whereas the Nuance pdf was not very good quality with the images despite its bulk.
I used Ghostview/script for several years - fine but a bit clumsy. Then I tried Open Office but it always altered the layout of complex Word docs. For big documents I'd email the Word docs to my son who'd run them through the full Adobe creator. Nice results but the software's so expensive. I could get Office 2007 to create pdfs but I'm very happy with Office 2003 and know loads of its keyboard shortcuts.
Nowadays I create a lot of pdf guides to put on my website so I need something that is easy to use and creates decent quality, compact pdfs.
I found eXPertPDF v4 on a cover CD a couple of years back. I used that and v5 extensively, with excellent results. Then I paid for the upgrade to v6.
The only thing I don't really like is the way links to websites within a pdf result in the pdf being replaced by the target site when called from a website rather than opening in a new tab. But I'm assured that's how it's meant to work. So I try to limit the number of links in pdfs destined for the web.
What I like most about eXPertPDF is the control over the size vs quality of the output pdf, especially the fine control over image compression. You can even save combinations of settings for use later, eg one to produce compact, web-friendly pdfs and another for bigger, print quality outputs.
I tested a 350kb Word doc with a few images and the pdf was 121kb from eXPertPDF, 141kb from Nova PDF Lite v5 and a portly 225kb from Nuance PDF Coverter 5. The eXPertPDF and Nova outputs were just the right quality for posting to a website whereas the Nuance pdf was not very good quality with the images despite its bulk.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Expert PDF provides three components: a PDF printer for generating PDFs from, say, a Word document; a PDF editor for adding bookmarks, text formatting and minor amendments to the text; and a PDF-to-Word converter.
The PDF printer seems to function no better than free alternatives, such as CutePDF Writer, and in some cases gives worse results; e.g. a double-bordered text box in Word was converted with only a single border by Expert PDF, whereas CutePDF correctly preserves the double border. The "convert to PDF" button that is added to a Word toolbar does not allow you to select only a subset of the pages to convert, which I found irritating. The first time I used it, Word crashed with Expert PDF stuck displaing the message "analyzing document". Unimpressed.
The PDF editor seems, to this reviewer, to be the only potentially useful component. But even then, it provides only marginally more functions than the free PDF-XChange viewer from Tracker Software Products, which also offers text formatting such as highlighting, strike-through, comments, etc. Expoert PDF is useful if you have a need to edit bookmarks and make insertions to the text (although I couldn't get the cut and paste functions to work at all).
The editor also has a rather cluttered layout, with a lot of screen space wasted with the manufacturer's logo; the toolbars can be rearranged but can't be docked vertically, which I would like to do in order to maximise the vertical space available for the PDF itself.
The PDF-to-Word converter seems to be quite hopeless. Given a PDF file with embedded text (so no text recognition required), it completely messed up the formatting of the document, especially the tables. It seems unable to cope with varying-sized pages within a single PDF file. Given a PDF file where the text is an image, it made no attempt to perform text recognition; rather, it inserted such low-resolution images within the Word file that the text became quite unreadable.
So overall, rather a disappointment. I would advise trying free alternatives such as CutePDF and PDF-XChange first and only considering this product if you really need the extra functionality.
The PDF printer seems to function no better than free alternatives, such as CutePDF Writer, and in some cases gives worse results; e.g. a double-bordered text box in Word was converted with only a single border by Expert PDF, whereas CutePDF correctly preserves the double border. The "convert to PDF" button that is added to a Word toolbar does not allow you to select only a subset of the pages to convert, which I found irritating. The first time I used it, Word crashed with Expert PDF stuck displaing the message "analyzing document". Unimpressed.
The PDF editor seems, to this reviewer, to be the only potentially useful component. But even then, it provides only marginally more functions than the free PDF-XChange viewer from Tracker Software Products, which also offers text formatting such as highlighting, strike-through, comments, etc. Expoert PDF is useful if you have a need to edit bookmarks and make insertions to the text (although I couldn't get the cut and paste functions to work at all).
The editor also has a rather cluttered layout, with a lot of screen space wasted with the manufacturer's logo; the toolbars can be rearranged but can't be docked vertically, which I would like to do in order to maximise the vertical space available for the PDF itself.
The PDF-to-Word converter seems to be quite hopeless. Given a PDF file with embedded text (so no text recognition required), it completely messed up the formatting of the document, especially the tables. It seems unable to cope with varying-sized pages within a single PDF file. Given a PDF file where the text is an image, it made no attempt to perform text recognition; rather, it inserted such low-resolution images within the Word file that the text became quite unreadable.
So overall, rather a disappointment. I would advise trying free alternatives such as CutePDF and PDF-XChange first and only considering this product if you really need the extra functionality.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
It may be ok for ripping simple PDF documents but was unable to cope with anything but the simplest formatting. Pages with tables lost their formatting. If you want to convert Office documents to PDF files, then try Cute Pdf, which is a free and reliable download.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
POOR PERFORMANCE
The Expert PDF is not worthy for the price. It is not user friendly.Whenever i try to create PDF's it opens so many windows and bit frustating.
Published 7 months ago by NYCK
Clunky
While this is a reasonable tool, and performs, it is very clunky to use. Editing pdf's is not easy, and the commands are awkward. Read more
Published 19 months ago by JohnnyG
Worthless Rubbish!
If you use an Asian (or a non-European) font, never dream of buying this software. It does not embed the Indian fonts I use in my business. Read more
Published 19 months ago by M. R. Bhardwaj
expert pdf 6
This was an additional purchase to go onto another computer , this item works well and is comparable to adobe pdf which does not work on my computer nor adobe media player and I... Read more
Published 21 months ago by David J. Wilson
Much cheaper than Adobe Acrobat, but badly flawed.
I bought this as I needed to design a form that would only allow restricted input from the user, yet could be easily flattened, emailed and filed. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mike M
Expert PDF 6.0
I could not get this software to install with the Vista operating system. The company allowed me to download a version but it slowed down Word to an unusable speed and then crashed... Read more
Published 23 months ago by M. Colin
Satisfied Customer
Very efficient once one gets used to the quirks. Certainly a lot cheaper than Acrobat Professional!! Read more
Published on 16 May 2010 by Mrs. Morag Burton
Not recommended for editing job
If you want a prog for editing, do not chose this one. It is not very functional as foxit or acrobat distiller. The only EASILY accessible tools are yellow highlight and underline. Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by Ms. E. Dolaptsi
Sorry, not impressed.
First my disclaimer - maybe I'm not enough of a pdf 'power user' to really need this kind of software. Read more
Published on 26 April 2010 by J. Scott
expert pdf 6 - not so good
Please see review by Tim also on this page
"Functional but rather unimpressive, 8 Nov 2009
By Tim (Oxford, UK"
Tim is spot on, wish I had read his review before... Read more
"Functional but rather unimpressive, 8 Nov 2009
By Tim (Oxford, UK"
Tim is spot on, wish I had read his review before... Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2010 by Mr. Andrew C. Nicholls
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