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PDFescape
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Easy, fast, and free
Very easy to use, with a simple interface.
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Has ads
Displays advertisements (in a sidebar on the right - no popups etc).
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Fully usable before upgrading (upgrade has desktop version)
A lot of editing can be done on the free account, but you can upgrade to more features.
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Available online and works on all popular browsers
PDFescape is available online and works on Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Chrome, Opera 9.5+.
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Platforms:
Web, downloadable on upgrade
Exports:
.pdf
Imports:
.xls
Annotation:
Whiteout, Add Text/Images/Freehand/Link/Form Fields, Comment; Highlight; Markup
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Sumatra PDF
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Starts quickly
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Windows only
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Free and open source
Sumatra is available for free, licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
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Lacking in features
Sumatra aims for simplicity at the expense of functionality. For example, there's no way to annotate PDFs or edit them.
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Low resource usage
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Fonts are not smooth enough
Not as smooth as e.g. Adobe Reader. No anti-aliasing
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Does not have heavy editor features
Annotations and other heavy features are just not needed in reader.
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Cannot crop empty fields
Just got used to this killing feature on Goodreader on Mac.
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Extensive keyboard shortcuts
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Elegant interface
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Portable
The application consists of a single file that can be run without installation. You can put it on an external device, such as an usb thumb stick and run it on any Windows machine from the thumb stick.
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Multilingual
It's available in 69 languages.
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Platforms:
Windows
License:
GPL-3.0-only
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Inkscape
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Free and open source
Inkscape is GPL-licensed and maintains public repositories.
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Very slow startup on some systems
Depending on factors like how many fonts you have installed, Inkscape can take upwards of 30 seconds to launch.
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Opens lots of file types
Inkscape supports many common formats for import (including SVG, Photoshop and Illustrator) and its plugin architecture allows more to be added.
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Uses its own SVG-format by default
Inkscape might use SVG as its default format, however this SVG's contains some additional SodiPodi/Inkscape additions that can be troublesome if you want to import the SVG into some other application.
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Export to different file types
Files can be exported and saved as a "normal" svg, png, jpg, bmp etc. file.
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1.0 is sluggish
Inkscape 1.0 uses GTK 3 which is sluggish and slow for low spec systems( eg. ARM, Celeron, Pentium, Core-i3, Ryzen 3 or Athlon ) compared to previous versions.
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Cross-platform
Pre-built binaries are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Inkscape can be built from source on additional platforms.
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Buggy
Application is often buggy so it happens from time to time that the popup / right-click menu won't close and stays open. It crashes also sometimes randomly. This makes it almost unusable for productive / business use.
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Integrates well into a X11-System
Its uses the X11 icon theme and desktop theme(GTK).
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Crashes very often
Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now - is one of its standard messages.
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It can do anything
A very powerful software that can do pretty match anything!
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Since 0.91 the gradient editor is gone
It is now only possible to edit a gradient on screen. but you can't set a stop to a specific percentage anymore.
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Measurement Tool
This tool is extremely handy and can not be found in any other vector graphics programs out there.
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Limited work with ICC CMYK color scheme
Support for ICC color profiles only in SVG files.
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Live Path Effects
Extremely powerful menu that offers more than 30 powerful Live Path Effects to apply to paths vastly enhancing the application functionality.
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Uses GTK
It looks an feels like an alien. It also uses now touch-based widgets instead of professional widgets.
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Guides, Grids, and Canvas Rotation
Extremely handy features when building complex graphics using Inkscape.
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Y-axis inverted
0,0 coordinates begin in lower left corner, not upper left corner as SVG standards define in Inkscape 0.92.x. It seems this is now fixed in the 1.0 beta 2 version of the program.
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Dark Theme Support
The new 1.0 beta 2 version finally got support for dark theme which normally is only available for commercial software like Affinity Serif, Adobe Illustrator.
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A toy for facebook-ist enthusiasts, not for professionals
It's a Linux niche mumbo-jumbo, same as GIMP for raster edit .
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The new version 1.1 is looks and feels fantastic
Inskape got UI update: new dockable dialogs.
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Based on the GTK widget toolkit
Software is based on GTK, so it might not integrate well in non-GTK environments. It also requires many dependencies on those non-GTK desktops. It also adds dependencies to GTK-environments since it is written in C++ which requires the gtkmm wrapper/interface.
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Interface is available in 29 languages
Basque, British English, Brazilian, Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian (BokmĂ¥l), Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Swedish.
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Mac version does not look as polished as its versions for Windows/Linux version for the 0.92.x version
It seems that Inkscape 1.0 beta 2 for Mac got some needed attention and it looks a lot better with dark theme support. native DMG installer and they got rid of X11 which is great.
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It's really easy and fun
Vector graphics can be created and edited with Inkscape.
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Incompatible with previous versions
Sometimes backward compatibility breaks. For example, pre 0.92 SVGs are incompatible with later releases (due different default resolutions).
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No support for large printing machine system
No support for large printing machine environment, except exporting the resulting artwork to PDF.
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Under GNU GPL
It is released under GNU GPL which one of the restricted open source license.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix
License:
GPL-2.0-or-later
Technology:
C++
Initial Release:
2003
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Nitro Pro
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Pricey, bloated addvertising for nothing, frequent crashing
Nitro Pro is available for $140.
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Nitro Cloud simplifies sharing, collaboration and getting documents signed
Nitro offers a cloud-service, called Nitro Cloud. Nitro can upload a PDF to the Nitro Cloud and notify other people via email that they can either view or edit a PDF or have to sign a PDF. If they need to sign a document they will be able to do it from the interface that's provided by the Nitro Cloud.
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Difficult to register
Very buggy, no support.
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Clean, ribbon-like user interface
Nitro Pro has an interface that will be immediately familiar to anyone who's used Microsoft Office products.
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Incomplete MS Office document to PDF conversion
Some attributes, like form fields don't get converted.
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Can directly convert Outlook e-mails to PDFs via a plugin
Single messages, conversations and folders can be converted.
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Good support for e-signatures
Nitro allows signing a document in three ways - using a webcam, writing it by hand or adding a signature from a file. It also allows you to send out files for signing via their cloud service, Nitro Cloud.
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Reasonable OCR capabilities
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Super-simple MS Office file conversion
To convert an MS Office file to a PDF, simply drag and drop the file on the Nitro Pro shortcut.
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Allows combining PDFs
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Allows batch printing multiple files
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Offers a trial version
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Platforms:
Windows
License:
Proprietary
Exports:
".doc; .docx; .xls; .xlsx
Real-time collaboration:
No
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Adobe Acrobat
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Excellent compatibility with the PDF standard
Since Adobe is the creator of the PDF standard, it stands to reason that Adobe's Acrobat Reader has the excellent support for it.
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Crashes often
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Cross-platform
Available on Windows, OS X, iOS and Android.
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Very expensive
While there's a free version of Acrobat Reader, it does not allow editing. There's a choice of Standard edition that costs $299, and Pro version for $499.
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Allows converting MS Office documents to PDFs
You can use the create PDF tool to open any Office document and convert it to an editable PDF or if you're on Windows, you can access the same functionality in Office from the Acrobat tab.
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No repsonisive usability
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Clean interface
Acrobat has a three tab interface. There are home, tools and document tabs. The home tab has recently used files as well as files stored in Adobe's cloud services. It will be the first thing shown once you start the program. The tools tab includes access to all Acrobats functionality. From here you can add tabs to panels or use the search to look for tools.
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Outdated design
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Acrobat can construct a font to match scanned content
Instead of simply trying to match the font to the closest available, Acrobat can attempt to construct a font based on other characters in the document.
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Subscription
You cannot use the version you paid before.
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Search allows finding functionality
You don't have to look trough menus to find specific functionality, instead you can use search that's available in the sidebar and the tools tab to find the functionality you're looking for. You don't have to know the name of the tool either, related terms will work.
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Good OCR
Acrobat can recognize characters from both both scanned documents and photos of text. Even if the photos are at an angle.
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Can automatically detect form fields
Acrobat has a form wizard that will attempt to overlay appropriate form fields (single-line and multi-line text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.) over existing layouts.
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Integrated cloud service
Gives access to a cloud service that allows storage and sharing of PDF files.
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Allows getting notified when recipients view or download a file
You can use the document cloud to get a shareable link to any of your documents. And it's possible to get notified when a document cloud document gets viewed and/or downloaded.
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Desktop app supports electronic signatures
You can both sign as well as send PDFs for signature.
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Good annotation options
Acrobat allows commenting on text, highlighting text and leave audio messages.
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Video playback support
Flash and H.264 encoded video can be played back in a Adobe Reader.
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Allows comparing two separate PDF files for differences
Reader can compare two versions of a PDF file and highlight differences.
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Allows real-time collaboration
Since version 9, Reader supports real-time collaboration that synchronizes documents and includes chat.
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Touch-friendly interface for the desktop version
The interface has big enough button that they can be used on a tablet sized device.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS
License:
Proprietary
Exports:
.pdf, .ps, .eps, .html, .htm, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jpf, .jpx, .jp2, .j2k, .j2c, .jpc.png, .pptx, .rtf, .txt, .tif, .tiff, .xlsx, .doc, .docx, .xml, .csv
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No
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Adobe Illustrator CC
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Subscription model
Illustrator CC requires a $19.99/mo (minimum) subscription to use. Adobe no longer sells previous versions of Illustrator.
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Amazing integration with all other Adobe Software (PS, Ae, Id...)
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Heavy use of CPU/RAM
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It's the industry standard
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Steep learning curve
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Advanced tools
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Very slow
Even in very good computers Illustrator is very slow.
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Has all the vector tools you could dream of
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You never truly own this software
As soon as you stop paying you to lose access to the software. This should be illegal.
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Flexible, non-intrusive interface
Small palette menus and the ability to save multiple menu layouts keep the UI out of the way.
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Install useless and intrusive software
When you install any Adobe product it also installs lots of useless and intrusive software and services. It adds two services and up to three auto-starting software that runs when you start your operating system and keep running constantly. One is for auto-updating, others for "checking" if you are not a pirate and some others that seems to be just to collect information.
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There are many tutorials on the internet
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Imprecise coordinates
Oftentimes your 140 is 139.9997 and as a vector program it doesn't rely much on precision.
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Frequent updates
The CC subscription model means that major releases are no longer necessary, so existing users gain immediate access to new features.
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No proper selection mode
In a vector-art program, the critical selection mode is the one in which objects must be fully enclosed by the selection marquee to be selected. In the simple example shown here, selecting all the circles should merely require you to draw a selection rectangle around them. But in Illustrator, there's no way to avoid selecting other objects as well, even though they're not totally enclosed by the selection box. Year after year, Adobe fails to fix this bizarre oversight, making Illustrator a tedious pain to use.
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Easy to learn
It's easy to learn how to work with this software.
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Buggy
Software can be very buggy at times.
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Platforms:
Windows; Mac
License:
Proprietary
Initial Release:
1987
Exports:
.ai; .eps; .ait; .pdf; .fxg; .svgz; .svg; .png; .bmp; .dwg; .dxf; .emf; .swf; .jpg; .pct; .psd; .tif; .tga; .txt; .wmf; .html; .gif
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Nuance Power PDF Advanced
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Search allows for patterns
A typical search will allow you to find only the things that you know exist in a document. In comparison, pattern search enables you to find things that match certain criteria. For example, you can search for a SSN without knowing the actual SSN.
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Somewhat pricey
A single license costs $149.99.
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Built-in speech to text conversion
Instead of typing, you can dictate the PDF.
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LexisNexis Casemap integration
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Supports bates-stamping and bates-numbering
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Comprehensive annotation tools
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Interface will be familiar to MS Office users
The editor uses a Microsoft Ribbon interface that's used throughout Windows and other Microsoft products.
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Platforms:
Windows
Exports:
.doc; .docx; .xls; .xlsx
Real-time collaboration:
No
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.doc; .docx; .xls; .xlsx; .ppt; .pptx; .pst; .ost
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