Where I can find a free pdf editor like nuance pdf [closed]

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Where I can find a free pdf converter/editor like "nuance pdf"?

I do not want a trial version.

I need to modify pdf form and be able to save it after (not just print it).

Thanks,

Answer 1

There isn't a free product that could be honestly compared to Acrobat competitors like Nuance PDF Converter Professional and Nitro PDF Professional. The reason for this is simple -- it's a huge amount of work (they've been developing Acrobat since the early 90's) and no one appears to have the time, money or desire to put in the thousands upon thousands of hours required to develop such a product, just so that they can give it away for free.

It would take a team of 10+ developers working for 5 years around the clock to build an application that even comes close to Acrobat and it still wouldn't be as good.

PDF is NOT a proprietary format. But it IS an ISO standard and anyone can develop PDF products for free providing that they can comprehend the PDF specification.

Answer 2

The Nitro PDF Reader beta supports this:

Fill & Save Forms

Nitro Reader, unlike some solutions, allows you to save any content entered in PDF form fields to retain an electronic copy of the completed form. You'll never scan or unnecessarily physically mail a form again. You can also reset all fields, allowing you to reset the form to its original, un-filled state if needed. Fill static forms

Fill Static Forms

Some forms originate from a scanner, or were never properly setup in the first place. Nitro Reader's Type Text tool allows you to fill out a form that happens to be a PDF — even if it's not a "PDF form".

(source -- via the Evernote Trunk)

Answer 3

I've been using the trial version of Infix PDF editor for free. There's basically no time limit on the trial, or reduced functionality. The only slight drawback is a small watermark is applied to saved documents. But hey, I can live with that! :-)

Answer 4

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "modifying pdf form" but with pdftk you can fill the PDF forms with (X)FDF data and/or flatten the forms to preserve the input.

Actually, pdftk is a complete toolkit to mangle PDFs. It runs without Acrobat, on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.

Answer 5

Maximum PC has a nice article right now.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/10%5Fways%5Fmanipulate%5Fpdf%5Ffiles%5Ffree%5Fsoftware

It will still take some work to covert the PDF, edit the converted file then print it to PDF or convert back to PDF.

If you plan on doing this often I would look into spending the cash and getting Adobe Acrobat.

Answer 6

Calibre converts PDF to TXT. but you will loose formatting and images in the process.

Calibre is freeware.

Answer 7

I'm assuming you on Windows. Take a look at Foxit.

Read and edit PDF's. They even sell an API for developers. And dirt cheap too. They have trail downloads. You can almost do anything that Acrobat does with Foxit.

No.. I don't work for them.