As the flagship product of the corporate that devised PDF, Acrobat XI Pro is the package in opposition to which different PDF editors tend to be compared. It’s additionally the most costly by a significant margin, but is its repute justified and, for that matter, does it really symbolize good value for cash?
Since XI Pro was launched over years ago this hints at a mature product with little in the way of helpful features still to be added. Somewhat unusually, then, one function is within the process of being withdrawn: integration with FormsCentral. This was a subscription-based service for the creation and management of on-line forms. Adobe says this is being retired on account of lack of help and to allow 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 permits you to create the file within the first place. This is achieved in two ways. First there’s a print driver so you possibly can print a doc, as you’ll to a real printer, but the finish result is the creation of a PDF file.
Second, additional toolbars are added to Microsoft Office applications and creating a PDF this way offers several addition options akin to combining multiple Office documents into a single PDF, preserving links, mail merging and more.
In terms of the advanced features that are found in professional PDF editors, XI Pro assist 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 hasn’t subsequently been altered; a means by which several authors can evaluate a document and add their feedback; and the ability to create forms that can then be filled in within the document.
Editing features are in depth and easy to use. In addition to editing textual content in a line, you may add, move, and resize textual content blocks and that images, and change fonts attributes. Acrobat XI Pro doesn’t have all of InDesign’s precise textual content adjustments, however it does offer vertical and horizontal line spacing and primary character spacing. Yow will discover and exchange textual content but not change all cases in one fell swoop. Because of the PDF format, though, and in common with all PDF editors, textual content with advanced formatting could also be introduced in boxes with no textual content wrapping to the following box. This means that while minor edits can be carried out with ease, carrying out main amendments to a PDF file isn’t feasible if the document has quite a lot of sophisticated formatting.
Acrobat XI Pro’s interface looks very much the identical as it did in the previous model, though you possibly can create and save customized software sets and export them. You possibly can 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 may rearrange them in a scalable icon view, see what each page of each doc looks like and set which pages of a doc are included within the ultimate exported file. You can even transform PDFs into editable Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.