AUGUST 2019 PCWorld 99The top of the interface
features a Microsoft
Office–style toolbar
containing master
functions such as
commenting, security,
sharing, and page
management. Clicking on
any of these drops down a
second toolbar with all the
options for that particular
function. Each of these
toolbars appears to have
also been refreshed for a more streamlined
look, though they contain the same functions
as in PDFelement Pro 6.
The goal with streamlined UI was clearly
to get you where you want to go within a
couple of clicks, and in that it succeeds.
Working with a PDF is much the same as it
was in version 6. Each document opens in its
own tab. Another toolbar down the left side
allows you to open thumbnails of all the
document’s pages, add bookmarks, review
comments, manage attached files, and search
text within the PDF.
EDITING, CREATING, AND
CONVERTING
Behind the pretty interface is a business-ready
feature set. Document editing is the meat-
and-potatoes for PDFelement Pro, and here it
allows considerable flexibility. You can edit
text in-line or within a text box, drop in and
manipulate images, insert links, change the
document background, create headers and
footers, and add and remove watermarks. It
also supports Bates numbering.
The program includes a full slate
of annotation tools, including text
highlighting, sticky notes, stamps,
signatures, shapes, and freehand markup.
Fonts, color, and other formatting can be
customized for each of these. Sharing
documents for review is easy, with options
for emailing and tracking with DocSend,
and sending to Dropbox and Google Drive
all available from the open document.
The previous version of PDFelement Pro
supported a comprehensive range of file
formats, so there was little need to improve
on them here. You can convert PDFs to Excel,
Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, Pages, HTML, RTF,
and text formats, and create them from
images, HTML, and text file formats.PDFelement Pro 7 includes a full slate of reviewing tools.