New PDF Editor

For many years, the firm has been using PDF Xchange Viewer as our preferred program to work with PDF documents.  I discussed some of the benefits and features of Xchange Viewer in an earlier blog post back in February.

The firm has upgraded to a new product from the same company called PDF Xchange Editor.  The new program has all the same features as the old one, plus a few extras.  You should not lose anything you do already by upgrading.

One of the most significant added features of the new Editor is the ability to edit PDF text.  As long as the document was created from actual text (and not simply a scanned image of text), you should be able to add, delete, or change text.  I still don't recommend creating a PDF if you still plan to edit it, but this feature may come in handy when you need to make changes to an existing PDF.

Another very nice feature is the ability to add Bates Stamp information to your PDF documents.  This will now be the preferred method for Bates Stamping PDF documents, as it has more flexibility than a program I had recommended in an earlier post.  There is an actual Bates Stamp feature built into the PDF Xchange Editor program.  But if you need even more flexibility, you can use the header/footer feature to create even more advanced Bates Stamps.

You may have received a scanned document in another format, such as TIFF or JPEG. PDF Xchange can open these documents as well and allow you to mark them up or run an OCR on the text.  However, you may have to save the altered document as a PDF to retain your changes.

If you want to learn more about all the features and functions of this program, there is a manual that goes into great detail.  You can read that manual here.

We are installing the new PDF Editor on all new computers.  If you think you may benefit from the new features, we can help you get it installed on your existing computer as well.