Because the flagship product of the company that devised PDF, Acrobat XI Pro is the package against which different PDF editors are typically compared. Itโs also the most costly by a significant margin, however is its status justified and, for that matter, does it really symbolize good value for cash?
Since XI Pro was released over two years ago this hints at a mature product with little within the way of helpful features still to be added. Considerably unusually, then, one function is within the process of being withdrawn: integration with FormsCentral. This was a subscription-primarily based service for the creation and management of online forms. Adobe says this is being retired as a consequence of lack of help and to allow the corporate to concentrate on mainstream PDF creation.
Although weโve referred to Adobe Acrobat XI Pro as a PDF Editor, as with most packages it also lets you create the file within the first place. This is achieved in two ways. First thereโs a print driver so you possibly can print a document, as you’d 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 presents several addition features similar to combining a number of Office documents right into a single PDF, preserving links, mail merging and more.
When it comes to the advanced features that are present in professional PDF editors, XI Pro support digital signatures that add a graphical illustration of your signature; ID certification that allows a recipient to verity that a PDF really got here from you and hasnโt subsequently been altered; a method by which several authors can assessment a doc and add their feedback; and the ability to create forms that can then be filled in within the document.
Editing features are intensive and straightforward to use. In addition to editing textual content in a line, you can add, move, and resize text blocks and images, and alter fonts attributes. Acrobat XI Pro doesnโt have all of InDesignโs exact textual content adjustments, however it does supply vertical and horizontal line spacing and fundamental character spacing. Yow will discover and exchange textual content but not change all situations in one fell swoop. Because of the PDF format, although, and in common with all PDF editors, textual content with advanced formatting may be presented in boxes with no text wrapping to the subsequent box. This means that while minor edits might be carried out with ease, carrying out main amendments to a PDF file isnโt possible if the doc has quite a lot of sophisticated formatting.
Acrobat XI Proโs interface looks very a lot the same as it did in the earlier model, although you’ll be able to create and save customized device sets and export them. You’ll be able to download customized tool sets that others have created, too.
Acrobat XI Proโs merging capabilities are good, too. You see a preview of most documents and can rearrange them in a scalable icon view, see what every web page of every doc looks like and set which pages of a document are included in the last exported file. You may as well transform PDFs into editable Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.