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Comments on: Customize PDFs online with these tools

Playing with PDFs is one of those tasks that can be a pain. But with the help of these online PDF tools, you might find it just a bit easier.

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by QMT June 5, 2009 4:36 PM PDT
Does it work with locked PDFs?
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by jbuberel June 5, 2009 5:19 PM PDT
Here's a question for you: Are there any non-Adobe Acrobat Suite tools that will allow you to enabled the Commenting and Change Tracking features of Adobe Reader in the resulting PDF file?

This feature is incredibly useful, but as far as I've been able to find, is only possible with the full retail version of Acrobat. Do any of these tools allow you to do the same?
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by docster87 June 5, 2009 9:22 PM PDT
Since getting a Mac, I have not dealt with Adobe as far as PDF's are a concern. Mac Preview allows viewing and printing of PDF's. Mac's have a built in PDF maker in the print command. Not sure how well I could edit a PDF, but I have never really had the need to. Really a shame that Microsoft forces one with Windows to download Adobe's PDF viewer just to view when out of the box MacOSX plays nice with PDF's.
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by ballmerisanape June 6, 2009 10:39 AM PDT
The Preview application that comes with 10.5 allows you to open just about any image format.. and allows you to convert anything that you can print into a pdf. It also allows you to add/organize pages in pdf documents, search text, annotate, insert images... etc. 10.5 was a significant upgrade to Preview. The older version lack the ability to add pages.. although there is a workaround in Automator for this.
by idfubar June 28, 2009 2:17 PM PDT
Wouldn't native PDF capabilities in Windows be an antitrust concern?
by csonp June 5, 2009 11:24 PM PDT
You include PDF Hammer (which is little more than a tool for moving PDF pages) and leave off something like PDFescape (www.pdfescape) which will do all that hammer does + most of what Adobe Acrobat will do (add text, add form fields, fill out pdf forms, etc)?
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by mrcrister June 6, 2009 2:18 PM PDT
As far as creation goes, Bullzip PDF Printer works great on a PC. I know these are for online editing and creation but sometimes you have to make a PDF out of the most bizare file formats and a printer helps. Even Bullzip (which is a free version of biopdf) have plenty of options and setting sto choose from including a watermark, document properties, passwords and more. bullzip.com
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by gtoews June 6, 2009 8:10 PM PDT
This is kind of silly, considering that if you have a mac all you need to do is print, and choose "Save as PDF." Boy! The things you windows people have to go through!
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by tweakpdf June 15, 2009 1:54 AM PDT
you can also try Tweak pdf to word.
it is cheap but performs very well.
and it also allows us to convert a lot files at the same time.
you can try it in http://www.tweakpdf.com
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