Wondershare PDFelement – The instrument for everything else around the PDF?

While Adobe Acrobat is becoming increasingly important for creation and editing, the programs appear more and more on the market that offer «more» than the usual ads of PDF files. This representative is also Wondershare PDFelement, who has made curious about its numerous functions.

Adobe Reader was yesterday

The Adobe reader from the Inventor of the PDF format was found on almost all PCs until a few years ago and was responsible for viewing PDF files. The initially small reader has become more and more resources over the years, to add functions for Adobe Cloud and has not made positive news in terms of safety. In the meantime there are a wide range of free alternatives for pure display or even compilation of PDF documents, e.g. Sumatra PDF, Foxit Reader or PDF-XCHANGE Viewer. Modern web browsers are also able to view PDF files.

Other functions only against money

The creation of PDF documents is also possible today from each suite of offices and even from the operating system itself, since the free PDF printers pay the function, which, for example, offers Windows 10 from home: print in a PDF file.

If you want more features, you will continue to rely on paid solutions. With its subscription product, Adobe Acrobat DC breaks every «private budget frame» and pays only for commercial environments with an adapted workflow or in which the graphic skills of the PDF standards are particularly requested, e.g. 3D-PDF and connection of other Adobe products such as Photoshop and Co.

For most users, however, these are mainly «text documents», so that other producers can also use this market with tools with which PDF documents can be created, modified, signature and commenting, share, combining, by importing and exporting.

Functional miracle wondershare pdfelement?

Wondershare is not exactly a pioneer in the field of the creation of PDF and also very large with a very large portfolio from the «cell doctor» converter to the converter in video format. We were even more enthusiastic than what PDFelement has to offer in detail. This is a lot:

In addition to the pure display of PDF documents and a PDF printer installed for the development of all programs in the PDF format, the start of the program already shows what is possible in detail:

Wondershare PDFelement can create PDF documents from the office documents and largely maintains their layout. The opposite way is also possible, from a pdf to a file office format, export in the file format of Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, as well as export such as EPUB, in different graphic formats, such as HTML and universal as RTF. The layout remains more and sometimes less well preserved, depending on the type of file of origin.

Several pdf files can also be combined in one. Here you can indicate the order and the pages you want to take from the document.

The «Edit PDF» function is ideal for all other operations, which selects the «Edit» tab directly compared to the normal opening of PDF files.

Unfortunately, what is missing is an optional integration to Microsoft Office to transfer the office documents with other options directly to the PDF format (signature, compression, protection, etc.). Unfortunately, the PDFFelemet PDF printer does not offer extensive functions such as filigree, password protection, compression, etc. First, the user must first end and then open the document again with PDFelement and continue working there. For example, since, for example, the sending of invoices such as PDF from Word, the integration to Word would be desirable. How to make the best shows, for example, PDF-XCHANGE PRO from the Tracker software.

Different options in the program itself

You can add comments, add stamps and graphic elements, brand areas and much more. The «Schwärzen function», on the other hand, can be found in the protection tab, in which it is possible to store signatures and passwords can be assigned for different authorizations.

The «page» tab can delete, insert, extract, share, share, replace, with the lines of the head and foot or with a watermark.

In the «Edit» card, there are functions, for example to incorporate your text, graphics or links in the documents.

The texts in the PDF documents can be selected, modified, fonts and sizes are modified and much more.

When trying to change the existing texts, you come across scanned Limits texts, however, since the OCR function required for the selection and modification of these texts costs 20 euros more.

Normal texts (e.g. generated through the «PDF printer» or stored by Word, for example) can also be modified without plug -in OCR. If the purchase of the OCR VA depends on the documents that are processed with PDFelement. Only when the expansion is activated can it be selected, copied and also modified.

Different editions

The manufacturer does not make it easy for potential customers to find the right edition. In addition to a variant with and without OCR, both are available again for commercial use at significantly higher prices. At the beginning, the 60 euros identified apply only to the staff edition and this without a plug -in OCR. On the contrary, 180 euros are already due for corporate use with the Plug -in OCR. A juicy price difference that we do not know from comparable products.

However, PDFelement defines something from other products because it has a widely used editor. With the program you can not only fill in the existing modules, but also to change them or create yours.

Since the process is very complex, the help refers to the manufacturer's website, where there are numerous download models. Unfortunately, these models are constantly in English and must be widely regulated for German users. At least this is possible without a plug -in ocr.

The modules also support the interactive fields for, for example, automatic sums or tax calculations, but require some time of training for syntax. In fact, it helps to be inspired by the models.

Existing PDF documents can also be optimized in the file size. PDFelement offers 3 different presets for this, mainly with a higher compression for built -in graphics.

Conclusion

PDFelement is a good and functional product, it offers a modern surface and a good editor of shape. The OCR and the non -existing integration in Microsoft Office Cloud the general image. Together with the prices for commercial use, the question arises if you have not better served with other products. Since the software can be tested for free, the user concerned should have an idea of ​​functionality and compare it with competitive products.

	Wondershare PDFelement Download of the demo via Wintotal
Producer:	Wondershare
Prey	from 70 euros
System:	AB Windows XP
Positive:	Excellent viewer and PDF publisher, modules editor
Negative:	The integration in the office is missing

(42 votes, media: 4,80 out of 5)

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