N0rTH3rnNUT Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Hi all, new to this forum and Affinity products so apologies if this has been asked already. I was wondering if there are any intentions to create an application that can handle and edit PDF's along the lines that Adobe Acrobat can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Note that Acrobat can do about a million things and few of them elegantly. I do not think another such multitoolbox is needed. Rather specified tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 If you are on Windows, the best alternative for PDF editing and creating forms that I have found is PDF Exchange Editor, which does almost everything Acrobat Professional does at a very low price. Even interactive forms with javascript are possible. Prepress flight checking is not included, though. It also presents the user with a much more focused GUI than Acrobat (which is a confused over-designed mess in Acrobat). SrPx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 1 hour ago, Medical Officer Bones said: If you are on Windows, the best alternative for PDF editing and creating forms that I have found is PDF Exchange Editor Even the free version of PDF-XChange Editor is pretty capable, but the paid-for version has some useful extra features. SrPx 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 I agree. I used the free version until a couple of months ago, when I needed to create PDF forms for a client. Until two years ago, I used Acrobat Pro for this, but no longer had access to that version, and the rental only Acrobat DC is just ridiculously over-priced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N0rTH3rnNUT Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 Any recommendations for a Mac based PDF reader/editor. The one thing I've found missing on the ones I've tried is a way to view colour separations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 1 hour ago, N0rTH3rnNUT said: Any recommendations for a Mac based PDF reader/editor. The one thing I've found missing on the ones I've tried is a way to view colour separations. callas pdfToolbox is the only other pdf application that can do separation preview and is color managed. callas is who licenses to Adobe much of what Acrobat does. The one thing it doesn't do is edit text in a pdf. SrPx, Medical Officer Bones, transitdiagrams and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N0rTH3rnNUT Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Thanks for this, I downloaded the trial version and it does look good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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