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Michael Gough

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iSkysoft PDFelement

This is a review of the Windows version of PDFelement

This is a review of the Windows version and should not be confused with my poor review of the Mac version. The Windows version is run on my Mac using Parallels 15. Pros: The program will print png images with a transparent background. Many Mac programs will print the transparency as black, including Mac Preview (although it will correctly print png images with transparency not embedded in a pdf). Do not be confused between what you see on the screen and what is printed on paper. They are not always the same! The program will correctly print barcodes - important in things like theatre tickets - which the Mac version does not. The license is perpetual - not a subscription like Adobe Acrobat. Subscriptions in my book are a killer. I'm not an intensive enough user. Good at modifying portions of text. You can readily change the font and whether its bold, italic, etc. Cons: It depends very much on how the original pdf was created as to how much you can do. For example, if the pdf was exported from MS-Word, every bit of text that was inside a text box in Word will be one object in the pdf. This really is only important if you want to move the text. You can still alter the font etc. of individual bits. It isn't always easy to move things together. For example, you can only move images and text separately. It does not pick up the borders of tables. You can only move the contents. This is something I've found in other pdf software. It is tricky to select multiple text objects. I have not yet found a drag-to-select option, although I may be missing a trick. I have had to use ctrl + pick to select multiple objects.

2020-03-24