What is best PDF software editor for mac

i had an older version of Acrobat pro on my 2011 imac - it was really bad. i haven't tried the new one. i have been using BlueBeam Revu for the past 6 weeks and unfortunately its been pretty disappointing. We use the PC version on many machines in my office so I figured the Mac version should be good too - WRONG. Every day i find some other frustrating thing about the software. it has much more limited useability than the PC version..

Many Thanks, this was by far the most useful of all these replies. Once one checks this out in the AppStore, it is clear that it has a very high rating. Not sure why this doesn't come near the top of the list when simply searching for PDF Editors...possibly no one has rated the latest release yet?

Hello Everybody,

Since I'm digitalizing my entire library, I really was searching for a program that was powerful enough to do this.

I've tested many programs, but the best one yet is still PDF Studio.

With this program I can scan my books into quality PDF documents, add links, delete, add or change the text, make remarks....
PDF studio 12 even has a deskew and OCR function.

So while The others are not bad, PDF studio is the best in my opinion for Mac for this price!

Try and see for yourself!

https://www.qoppa.com/pdfst...

I have used PDFpenPro for years. I find it an excellent program to use with PDFs. Of course if you want the only 100% compatible editor that would be Adobe Acrobat - very expensive.

There is nothing comparable to Adobe Acrobat. It's the only application that can create a new PDF and directly edit a PDF document. Others, even my favorite, can only overlay stuff. It cannot truly edit a PDF such as selecting text and replacing it or deleting it. It truly depends upon what you want to do.

I don't own Acrobat because it's too expensive for my needs. At best I may need to sign a PDF document or fill in blanks. I can annotate a PDF. Almost all the PDF editors besides Acrobat can do what PDFpenPro does. You will simply need to download trial versions to test in order to find what works best for you at a given price point.

Kappy is giving you great advise from his broad experience. I do not use either of these, so at best mine is a side comment.

Almost any word processing program can use the "Print to PDF" option in its Print routine to produce a PDF file. The file it produces may not be an optimized pdf. It may not even be a very good PDF, but it can be a starting place.

Pages is not able to edit PDF files.

Quite right. I did not intend to claim Pages could Edit PDFs.

But if the text you want as a PDF is already laid out in Pages, you do not need a special Application to produce PDF output (one-way, output-only) by Printing to PDF.

Hi, just to add my 5 cent's worth of opinion 🙂:

I have been looking for an easy to use and not so expensive fully-featured PDF editor on MAC and finally found Qoppa’s “PDF Studio Pro” the most suitable one. It’s a great piece of software for quickly editing / creating PDF’s and very straightforward.

I can only recommend it to all who don’t want to use Acrobat, but need functionality.

Couldn't agree more than OrchBlogger. There site is

http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/ It is an awesome editor that compares to Adobe Acrobat Pro from what I have experienced so far. Love it. You can get trial version and they are still promoting free version if you promote them.

Hope this helps

I feel free built in 'Preview' app app is sufficient enough for basic editing but I agree it’s no substitute for Adobe Acrobat as a PDF document editor and creator which is very expensive. Few other alternatives are PDFelement: (this website looks kinda outdated but it's a cheap alternative to PDFpen) and PDFpen as mentioned by few others.

I'm also new to Mac (just started using my brother's mid 2014 Macbook bro). I agree Preview is decent for minor PDF editing tasks but you cannot rely on it completely. Currently, I'm using this Mac PDF Editor from Wondershare as mentioned here: http://www.mypdfsolutions.com/how-to-edit-pdf-file-on-mac-without-expensive-tool s.html which is quite cheap and comes with OCR too. I also tried the free trial version of PDFpen: https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen and found it pretty impressive (it's bit expensive but good). Unfortunately, both of the are paid and I'm yet to see any decent FREE PDF editor for Mac.

The latest PDFPenPro, and Adobe Acrobat Pro can truly redact text, graphics, or regions of both. This redaction is not an overlayed color, but true redaction that cannot be searched, or undone in a PDFEditor once the original content is redacted. PDFPenPro has a free trial on their website, and it is north of $100USD.

I tested the redaction by using a custom PDF search tool that I wrote, and opening the redacted PDF in Preview, and Acrobat Reader DC. No search was successful for the original content prior to its redaction.

Another tool that can open and edit PDF text is Affinity Designer. It does not do redaction. OS X App Store, and web site has free trial.

I get no compensation, or consideration for any product mentioned in this reply.

The best answer I've found, since all non-acrobat PDF Editors I've tried have failed me in one way or another, is to NOT use one at all. Now, I upload my pdf file to one of any number of free (and there are paid services also) conversion sites, retrieve a fully converted WORD file, and then do whatever editing I want in WORD. I've had 100% success in doing that. Good Luck!