60 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2019REVIEWS PDFELEMENT PRO^6
But it’s most laudable feature is its
uncluttered, easily navigable interface. Similar
to what we saw in iSkysoft’s PDF Editor 6 (go.
pcworld.com/1sky), PDFelement’s home
screen displays its basic capabilities—edit,
create, combine, convert, and more—on large
clickable tiles so you don’t have to hunt
through nested menus to find what you need.
Once you select an option and open a
document, a cleanly laid-out toolbar for master
functions such as commenting, security, and
page management, activates. Clicking on any
of these opens a second toolbar with options
related to that function. The experience is
identical across Windows and Mac versions, so
you can seamlessly switch from working on
one platform to another.As for the actual PDF editing, you can modify
PDFs directly by adding images, cropping,
watermarking, adding links, changing the
background, and editing text. For the last, you
have a choice of editing in-line or within a
paragraph-bounding box. Annotation options
include text highlighting, sticky notes, stamps,
signatures, and freehand drawing, and there’s a
wealth of customizability using color, fonts, and
other elements for most of these options.
If you need to compile data from PDF
forms for spreadsheet analysis, you know
what a challenge it can be, with extensive
copying or rekeying that has the potential to
introduce errors. PDFelement’s data-
extraction feature does it for you automatically
and saves it to your choice of .CSV or ExcelPDFelement displays all its core functions as clickable tiles.