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PDF is the de facto standard format for document exchange and sharing, and celebrated its 25th birthday in June. What matters with PDF apps is not that they allow you to read the format, but support for things such as document creation, splitting and editing.
When I reviewed it two years ago, I thought Nuance's Power PDF Advanced 2 delivered 'affordable, feature-rich PDF tools'. This update takes that base and builds on it significantly. For the princely sum of £154.99 for a single-user license (with a free 15-day trial on offer if you want to check it out before spending), Power PDF Advanced 3 offers plenty of benefits.
Users of PDFs for business will appreciate newly integrated support for DocuSign, a widely used e-signature solution. And those looking for the very latest PDF features should note that Power PDF Advanced 3 supports PDF 2.0. This revision of the standard, published in the middle of last year, adds a range of features that make PDFs more useful in a modern environment, including the ability to insert geospatial references into documents and support for 256-bit AES encryption.
Power PDF Standard 3: Your software is out of date. And while your current Nuance PDF software is a solid product, the all-new Power PDF Standard 3 is better in every way. You'll assemble, compare, convert, create, dictate, edit, read, scan, search, secure, and print PDF files and forms with unprecedented ease and speed. Manage PDF files with ease using this software. Great for small offices and home users this software lets you work with files saved directly to your computer or the Cloud. Select image or upload your own. SEG1 hp Weekly Ad Office Depot Business Solution. Nuance Power PDF Standard 3.0.
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Document creation within a PDF app is a 'must have' feature, and was possible in the previous version -- but only as a single user: revisions had to be made by sharing a PDF with others via email or using some other third-party system. This made direct collaborative working with PDFs a painstaking, time-consuming and unattractive task. Now people can collaborate on document creation in real time, but only as long as they are on the same local network. It would be nice to see this feature extended more broadly to allow remote workers to collaborate, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
As a regular user of the previous version of this application, I find the ability to combine documents together into a single PDF very useful. Obviously others did too, because Power PDF Advanced 3 has a button that allows all currently open documents within the app to be combined into a single PDF. This avoids the hassle of having to go through the step-by-step process within the application of bringing separate PDFs together. Extending this idea, you can now rearrange the pages in a PDF by drag and drop. People who produce long reports that might need restructuring, or who need to produce different versions of a document for different audiences are among those who will find this useful. Similarly, although not a new feature, it's easy to separate a PDF out into its constituent pages, saving discrete PDF files as required.
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The name of this application couldn't be any clearer. Power PDF is an advanced and powerful tool to manage everything that has to do with PDF files. With this software developed by Nuance you can carry out almost any action on your PDFs: from creating to editing, including combining and converting documents.
A reliable alternative to Adobe Acrobat.
At a reasonably lower price than Adobe's product you'll have on your Windows computer a program with which you can work on your PDFs in an intuitive and easy manner, without missing any essential functions: creating, converting, protecting, editing, combining, modifying, printing and sharing files in PDF format will be child's play.
Main features of Nuance Power PDF Standard
- Intuitive user interface similar to Microsoft Office.
- Create PDFs straight from any application capable of printing.
- Functions to edit, modify, protect and compress any PDF file.
- Built-in tools for teamwork: taking notes, watermarking and signing will be easier than ever.
- Combine different documents in a single PDF by just dragging and dropping.
- Possibility to convert PDFs to Word documents and vice-versa.
- Protect your PDF files by means of AES 128 and 256-bit secure encryption.
- It's a commercial version.