Pros:
Extensive set of annotation and markup tools, well-designed and easily accessible. For my own uses, one of the most important that is not commonly found is adding scaled lines (like measuring scaled distances on an architectural plan), which this does very well.
Cons:
Does not respond to many common trackpad gestures (zoom, shrink, for example). No undo.
Summary:
Overall a very nice alternative to the bloated Adobe product when you need advanced PDF functionality on the Mac, especially if you need to measure scaled distances.
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Jan 28, 2012 for v7.0.2
I've used PDF Studio for several years now and am very satisfied with its performance. Even though its JAVA, its responsive and fast. It was, and perhaps still is the best PDF editor for Linux.
PDF Studio allows full editing of PDFs in Linux including highlighting and notes. Can be used in Linux and Windows so if you switch between two OS, you can continue to use PDF Studio.
A new feature that I appreciate is the new version 6 supports Chinese fonts. I've found situations where Acrobat is unable to open a PDF, but PDF Studio is able to open it without any problem.
The application's drawback is the lack of OCR that enables the user to create a Image on Text machine readable PDF document.
PDF Studio is easy to use, allows me to add highlighting and notes to PDF documents.
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Dec 06, 2011 for v6.62