Create new PDF files of access and edit the existing ones by changing the contents of the texts, adding or removing images and graphics, adding comments and notes, importing tables and structures performing spellchecking, and converting the files to and from XMP, BMP, GIF, ICO, JBG, PBM, PGM, TGA, PCX, DCX, PNG, JPG, TIFF, EMF, RTF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, PPT, TXT.
Until not so long ago, finding a PDF editor with nearly all the features that you may find in Adobe's official products was not an easy task. PDF-XChange Editor comes with all the features you would expect to find in a non-Adobe professional tool and then everything else. This includes OCR capabilities, accessibility features, text and image editing tools, forms recognition, and much more.
Without cross-checking the list of features available in both Adobe Acrobat and PDF-XChange Editor, I would say that users of the former will find it hard to spot a feature on the list that is not available in the latter. All the editing options are there — add and edit text, images, and objects; add and modify links; create bookmarks using a full-featured bookmark generator; add sticky notes, comments, and stamps, etc.
Apart from the more obvious features, this comprehensive tool offers you full OCR capabilities, allowing you to add tags to scanned or otherwise non-tagged PDF files. Tags are essential for non-visual access to any PDF file, as they can provide persons with a print disability with the structure, the correct reading order, and — what is more — the text behind the visual representation of the pages needed for them to "read" the PDF file using assistive technologies.
These tags, however, are usually a chaotic mess when generated automatically, and that is why it is so important that the PDF editor in question includes accessibility features that allow editors to produce a truly accessible and readable PDF document. Unlike many of its competitors, PDF-XChange Editor comes with a full-fledged accessibility section, though — regrettably — most of these features are part of the 30% of functionality not available for review in the free demo version.
Other functions worth mentioning include PDF protection, PDF document comparison and review, form recognition, PDF conversion, and several others. This wealth of features and options, together with the significantly lower price tag, when compared to "official" PDF editors, are enough to put PDF-XChange Editor on top of the list of alternative editing tools to produce professional and accessible PDF files.
v6.0.322.7 [Mar 26, 2016]
- Added support for multiple page-backgrounds.
- The 'Add Watermarks' and 'Set Background' features now support password protected files.
- Added some additional options to the 'Combine Files' dialog.
- Added a feature to delete empty pages. (Menu/Document/Delete Pages).
- Added a feature allowing selection of content items by type from the context menu when the EditContent tool is active, or from the menu in the 'Content' pane).
- Added a feature to convert links from PDF when converting to Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint Presentations.
- Added a feature to convert 'Underline' and 'StrikeOut' text from PDF when converting to Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint Presentations.
- Added the ability to recognize and edit/copy the underline/strikeout text on pages.
- Added an option to auto-select newly created annotations.
- Added a feature to easily show/hide UI-panes.
- Added a feature to create new document tab/window. (Menu/Window/New Document Window).
- Added features to get/set RichText programmatically and to convert from RTF to XFA and back.
- Added an option to turn off comments semi-transparency when creating or editing.
- Added the ability to choose the type of documents navigation history: common - through all opened documents, or individual - per document (Menu/Edit/Preferences/Documents/OpenDocuments section).
- Fixed an issue with 'Select Multiple Annotations' holding the Ctrl key. (mouse cursor blinking).
- Added a 'Yes to All' save-option on message-dialogs when more than one documents have been changed and the user tries to close all of them at the same time.
- Sharepoint: added the ability to sign out for MS live login.
- Added a feature to remove a signatures' background.
- Improved the Contents Pane: context menu, Copy/Cut/Paste, Select/Deselect, Change Order of content items via Contents Pane
- Change Contents Order: multiple pages processing, minor improvements
- Added a feature to easily re-open recently closed documents (Menu/Window/Reopen Recently Closed Doc).
- GoogleDrive: the root folder now contains the "Shared with me" and "My Drive" folders.
- Added the ability to sort files in the Images-To-PDF, RTF-To-PDF and Text-To-PDF dialogs.
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