PDF software other than Acrobat

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PDF software other than Acrobat?

Looking for an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro for PDF management. Have a new laptop and the retail price for Acrobat Pro is absurd at $429 and hate subscription services...looking for recommendations of an alternate program. Don't mind paying for it, so not necessarily looking for free. Needs to be a Mac OS compatible and computer based software, not cloud based.

Here is what I need to do with PDF's at a minimum:

-Typewriter tool function is a MUST. Need to be able to fill in and type on PDFs that are not in a fillable field format.
-Merge documents and make a multi page PDF from different files easliy.
-Delete and rearrange pages within a PDF document.
-Stamp feature that allows me to take an image of my signature like a .gif and stamp it on a document to sign and return.

I do a lot of turning proposals into PDFs from many files as well as completing and emailing back documents that need to be filled in and signed without access to a scanner.

Any ideas?
 
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Foxit or nuance PdfPro. Having demoed both, I think nuance does a better job with advanced Acrobat functions.
 
What do you need to do with the PDF files?

If you don't need to INGEST PDF files, but just want to produce them, just buy a Mac. The generate PDF feature is innate in the printer interface there.
 
flyingron said:
What do you need to do with the PDF files?

If you don't need to INGEST PDF files, but just want to produce them, just buy a Mac. The generate PDF feature is innate in the printer interface there.
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:rofl:

Trying to remember the last time I saw meaningful software that did not include PDF creation. Plus, there are so many free utilities to do that...
 
flyingron said:
What do you need to do with the PDF files?
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Everything that I listed above is what I need to do. Thanks for reading the actual post before responding :nono:

Turning a document into a PDF is not a problem. Merging pages and managing, signing docs with an actual signature onto and existing PDF and having a Typewriter tool is not in most of the basic free crap that is in the standard programs.
 
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flyingron said:
What do you need to do with the PDF files?

If you don't need to INGEST PDF files, but just want to produce them, just buy a Mac. The generate PDF feature is innate in the printer interface there.
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If all one needs is to produce pdf files by "printing", there is a small army of Windows and Linux apps available also, most of them free.

My read of the question was that he was looking for more than that. Unfortunately I don't know if either I mentioned is Mac-compatible
 
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The Mac's built-in Preview app will do everything that you're requesting, including signatures. Annotations and signatures are available from the "Tools" menu, or the Toolbox icon at the top of an open PDF document. Document management is available from the View menu, or the icon at the top left of an open PDF document. Choose Thumbnail view and you can drag and drop files to merge, as well as delete and rearrange pages within a document.

PDFpen ($75) is one commercial alternative on the Mac.

On the iPhone/iPad, similar functionality is available in PDF Expert from Readdle ($10). It's a polished program that is quite intuitive and works very well. Readdle is supposedly working on a Mac version for release in the future.


JKG
 
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