As the flagship product of the corporate that devised PDF, Acrobat XI Pro is the package in opposition to which different PDF editors are typically compared. It’s additionally the most costly by a significant margin, however is its repute justified and, for that matter, does it really characterize good worth for cash?
Since XI Pro was released over two years ago this hints at a mature product with little within the way of helpful options still to be added. Somewhat unusually, then, one characteristic is within the process of being withdrawn: integration with FormsCentral. This was a subscription-primarily based service for the creation and administration of online forms. Adobe says this is being retired because of lack of help and to permit the corporate to concentrate on mainstream PDF creation.
Although we’ve referred to Adobe Acrobat XI Pro as a PDF Editor, as with most packages it additionally means that you can create the file in the first place. This is achieved in ways. First there’s a print driver so you can print a document, as you would to a real printer, but the end result is the creation of a PDF file.
Second, additional toolbars are added to Microsoft Office applications and making a PDF this way offers several addition features corresponding to combining multiple Office paperwork right into a single PDF, preserving links, mail merging and more.
In terms of the advanced options which can be found in professional PDF editors, XI Pro help digital signatures that add a graphical representation of your signature; ID certification that allows a recipient to verity that a PDF really came from you and hasn’t subsequently been altered; a means by which several authors can evaluate a doc and add their feedback; and the ability to create forms that may then be filled in within the document.
Editing features are extensive and straightforward to use. In addition to editing textual content in a line, you can add, move, and resize text blocks and that images, and alter fonts attributes. Acrobat XI Pro doesn’t have all of InDesign’s exact textual content adjustments, but it does offer vertical and horizontal line spacing and basic character spacing. You can find and exchange textual content however not replace all instances in one fell swoop. Because of the PDF format, though, and in widespread with all PDF editors, textual content with advanced formatting could also be presented in boxes with no text wrapping to the next box. This implies that while minor edits may be carried out with ease, finishing up main amendments to a PDF file isn’t possible if the document has loads of sophisticated formatting.
Acrobat XI Pro’s interface looks very much the identical as it did within the earlier model, although you may create and save custom tool sets and export them. You may download custom device sets that others have created, too.
Acrobat XI Pro’s merging capabilities are good, too. You see a preview of most documents and might rearrange them in a scalable icon view, see what each web page of each doc looks like and set which pages of a doc are included in the last exported file. You can too transform PDFs into editable Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.