Xodo PDF Reader is an all-in-one PDF reader and PDF editor • Free! No ads, no in-app purchases • Fastest PDF viewing engine and smooth navigation • Write directly on a PDF, highlight and underline text, and more • Annotate PDFs with others in real time • Fill PDF forms and sign documents • Take notes on blank PDFs • Complete PDF support and compatible with Adobe Acrobat® and other PDF viewers supporting standard PDF annotations • Designed to work well on both tablets and phones • Available in your browser as a Chrome App (http://goo.gl/IVsRl0) HIGHLIGHTS: PDF Reader • Bookmark pages for future reference • Crop pages to use the screen fully • Night Mode for comfortable PDF reading in dark environments • Use the table of contents to jump to chapters and sections • View as single- or double-page, continuous scroll, and thumbnails • Text search, page rotation, high levels of zoom, and more! PDF Annotator and Editor • Draw and type text directly on the PDF • Optimized for styluses • Highlight, underline and strikeout text • Add comments, arrows, circles, lines, and more • Use the annotation summary to see all annotations at a glance, and tap one to navigate to it • Scroll by using two fingers while you annotate • Insert, rearrange, and delete pages in PDF documents • Annotate PDFs with others in real time Sign & Fill PDF Forms • Fill out, save, and send PDF forms • Sign a document by hand, and save your signature for later re-use • Print documents directly from the app Convert & Create • Use your camera to scan a page, or open an existing image to create a new PDF (supports jpeg, png, gif, tif) • Merge multiple documents • Create new blank PDFs and use Xodo to take notes Also available for Windows Phone 8, Android, iPhones/iPads, and directly on the web at http://xodo.com/app. Maxe Xodo Better: Have an idea to make Xodo even better? We'd love to hear it! Please add your idea and vote on other ones here: http://xodo.uservoice.com/. Community interest plays a big part in how we prioritize upcoming features, so let us know what's important to you.
There are plenty of ways to view and edit PDFs on a Mac, but Apple's built-in Preview application is phenomenal and often overlooked. While Lion didn't wow the crowd with most of its features, it brought some amazing additions to Apple's PDF viewer/editor that puts it over the top and makes it our choice for the best.
Note: There are a few ways you could define a PDF viewer/editor, as features can range from simple form-filling to complete PDF manipulation. For this post we're concentrating on the features the average person would use, meaning viewing, form completion, annotation, and so on.
PDF Expert also supports Handoff so you can start editing on your Mac and pick up on your iPad, or vice versa. When it comes to editing and filling PDFs on iOS with no barriers, PDF Expert is what. 6 Best Free PDF Editor for Mac 2018, According to PDF Users PDF is a great format for distribution and sharing of files, you can open it, print it, even copy text from it, but the major downside, of course, is that you can't edit PDF files easily and freely once it’s been created. Work across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Use PDF Expert on any Apple device – iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Seamlessly transfer documents between your devices. The Best Video Editing Software of 2018 Whether you're a weekend GoPro shooter or a full-time video professional, you need editing software that's powerful but easy to use. Here's how the best. Wondershare PDF Editor for Mac OS. This is one of the best PDF editors for Apple devices and they can easily convert to a maximum of 50 PDF files, which makes the app outstanding. It not only allows you to edit PDF files with a lot of convenience, but also enables you to create your own PDF forms. PDF Expert is $10 on the App Store and is the best PDF app for the iPad. PDF app Runner-Up: PDFpen 2 PDFpen on the Mac is the staple app for PDF users on the desktop, so it’s only natural for the iPad version to also be a popular option in the iOS realm.
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UPDATE: Wondershare is claiming we named their Product, PDF Editor, our top choice. We did not, and they are using a false award that claims our approval. Please do not buy their products as they are a dishonest company. We've left the original text (stricken out) about PDF Editor in the alternatives section so you can see how little of a recommendation we made.
Preview
Platform: Mac OS X
Price: Free
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Price: Free
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Features
- View and edit images in addition to PDF files
- Annotate, highlight, and mark up PDFs in several ways
- Digitally fill out forms
- Sign PDF documents with your webcam (read on for more info)
- Super-fast performance
- Super-fast search
- Insert new pages into PDFs
- View and edit PDF metadata
- Add and edit hyperlinks in a PDF file
Where It Excels
Preview is fast. Mac OS X isn't exactly known for its speed and efficiency, so Preview's ability to blow through PDF documents is pretty impressive. But among its many handy highlighting and annotating features, which are all solid, its ability to fill out forms is especially impressive. This may seem like a mundane thing, but when you get to the signature line it is hard to eschew at least a little reverence. Preview (in Lion) has a feature where you can sign a piece of paper, hold it up to your computer's webcam, and it'll turn it into a high-quality signature you can place in a form. It can also save multiple signatures so you don't have to continuously repeat this process. Preview is solid all-around, but it's those sorts of features that make it amazing.
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Where It Falls Short
As incredible as Preview's webcam signature feature is, it seems kind of strange that there is no ability to sign with your trackpad as well. After all, Apple Stores let you sign for purchases with your finger on an iPod touch. Additionally, Preview wasn't exactly perfect prior to Lion and Lion isn't exactly perfect on its own. It's hard to justify upgrading to OS X 10.7 if Preview is the only draw. If you're sticking with Snow Leopard, your version of Preview isn't bad but it's certainly not the best PDF editor/viewer you can find. Apple fixed a lot of quirks in Lion, which make it a pleasure to use, but if you're not running Lion you're pretty much out of luck.
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The Competition
Best Pdf Editor Apps For Mac
PDFPen costs $60 but is pretty great. If you need more features than Preview can provide, it'll get the job done. PDFPen makes page rearrangement, editing, multi-document assembly, and more very easy. While it's on the expensive side, consider it a cheaper alternative to Adobe Acrobat ($200). We've never loved Acrobat and it likely provides more features than you're going to need.
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Skim is a great choice if your primary focus is annotation as that's what it was design to do. It has an impressively long list of features to make annotation easy.
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