Product Description

Expert Pdf Pro 6.0 DVD Win (mini box)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #190 in Software
• Brand: Avanquest Software
• Released on: 2008-12-20
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7

Manufacturer's Description

Expert PDF 6 is the complete conversion tool for all your PDF needs. It lets you create, edit and view PDF files, and even convert PDFs back to Word for editing. You can add bookmarks, hyperlinks, watermarks and password protection before emailing in just two clicks!

New Features!

Document Management - Use Bates Numbering to index documents with time, date, copyrights or unique coding for easy identification and retrieval.

PDF Forms - Create interactive PDF forms with text fields, listboxes, checkboxes etc. for anyone to read and complete with just a PDF reader, using PDF forms ensures the format cannot be changed - making them more secure for home or office use!

New User Interface - simple & clean interface for easy navigation.

Key Features

Create PDFs from any printable PC application - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, photos and images.

Multiple document merge - Select several documents in various formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, URL, etc.), for conversion to single PDF, or as separate PDF files.

PDF to Word conversion - One click conversion of any PDF into a document that can be read and modified in Microsoft Word.

Integrated toolbar - Incorporated into Word and Excel toolbars.

Image conversion - Documents can be converted into popular formats: JPG, GIF, TIF etc.

Hyperlink and URL management - Add direct links within documents to websites etc.

Easy Emailing - Convert a file to PDF and email in two clicks.

Text editing features - Cut, copy, paste, resize text and visuals.

Graphic editing tools - Add images, geometric shapes, Bezier curves, and more to a PDF file.

Annotation tools - Add notes, watermarks, comments and stamps.

Document protection - Secure and protect your PDF file (password encryption) with rights to print, edit, copy etc.

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Customer Reviews

The best pdf creator I've found
I've created thousands of pdfs over the years, mainly from Word documents, and have tried lots of pdf creation software packages.

I used Ghostview/script for several years - fine but a bit clumsy. Then I tried Open Office but it always altered the layout of complex Word docs. For big documents I'd email the Word docs to my son who'd run them through the full Adobe creator. Nice results but the software's so expensive. I could get Office 2007 to create pdfs but I'm very happy with Office 2003 and know loads of its keyboard shortcuts.

Nowadays I create a lot of pdf guides to put on my website so I need something that is easy to use and creates decent quality, compact pdfs.

I found eXPertPDF v4 on a cover CD a couple of years back. I used that and v5 extensively, with excellent results. Then I paid for the upgrade to v6.

The only thing I don't really like is the way links to websites within a pdf result in the pdf being replaced by the target site when called from a website rather than opening in a new tab. But I'm assured that's how it's meant to work. So I try to limit the number of links in pdfs destined for the web.

What I like most about eXPertPDF is the control over the size vs quality of the output pdf, especially the fine control over image compression. You can even save combinations of settings for use later, eg one to produce compact, web-friendly pdfs and another for bigger, print quality outputs.

I tested a 350kb Word doc with a few images and the pdf was 121kb from eXPertPDF, 141kb from Nova PDF Lite v5 and a portly 225kb from Nuance PDF Coverter 5. The eXPertPDF and Nova outputs were just the right quality for posting to a website whereas the Nuance pdf was not very good quality with the images despite its bulk.

Not so expert pdf 6
'Very disappointed'

This product does not work with Windows Vista 64 bit

The product description does not make it clear. It gives the impression that it works with Windows Vista

The Expert technical support were difficult to communicate with and treated me like an idiot.

I have since purchased the Nuance PDF Converter 6 Professional which installed easily and works well.

This is obviously a case of you get what you pay for.

Woefully bad software
This is an example of bad software engineering, the issues start during the install process. A nice little dialog asks would you like to register, I chose register later as I was not connected to my network at the time, however rather than taking into consideration my choice a registration dialog box appeared. A bit further into the installation, which had been running for about 15 minuites at this point, I noticed there was an additional icon on my task bar, an error had occoured when trying to install some component. Rather than displaying a dialog box which explained the error in the foreground, the designers had decided the error dialog should be in the background so it would remain unnoticed, even when I found it it was still very unhelpful. It turns out the error was due to the pdf printer driver not being supported under 64 bit operating systems; a very easy thing to check for and display a nice warning message, like most good software vendors do.

Then when the application is installed, the user interface is absolutely horrendous, there is a background image behind the main menu which makes it difficult to see some of the menu items. The functionality is very poor, not much more than the free addon for Microsoft office products allowing you to save as a pdf.