PDF Studio Standard

Name: PDF Studio Standard
Price: 89.00 $
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

2019.2.1

31 March 2020

PDF creator with annotation features and more.

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Overview

PDF Studio is an easy-to-use yet powerful program for working with PDF documents.

Features in PDF Studio Standard

Create PDFs
Scan-To-PDF
Annotate and Markup PDFs
Fill In & Save PDF Forms
Secure Documents
Append / Delete Pages
Apply Watermarks, Headers, Footers
Create Bookmarks / Table of Contents
Loupe, Pan & Zoom, Rulers, etc…

Additional features in PDF Studio Pro

Interactive Form Designer
OCR (Text Recognition)
Content Editing
Permanent Redaction
Compare PDFs
Optimize PDFs
Digitally Sign PDFs
Advanced PDF Splitting & Merging
Batch Process Multiple PDFs
Precision Measuring Tools
PDF/A Validation / Conversion

What's new in PDF Studio Standard

Version 2019.2.1:

Note: Now requires OS X 10.11 or later

Added support for Ligature characters in text search
Improved processing of ‘Simplified Notation’ on Calculate fields
DocuSign integration update to fix issue with emailing documents
Fix to handle bad DA strings in check boxes created by LibreOffice
PDF/A Validation: "Length field of stream dictionary" error when PDF contains attachments
Excel to PDF: Better handling of bold fonts in EMF tables
MAC: PDF/A Conversion success window shown behind progress dialog
Other internal fixes

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PDF Studio Pro from Qoppa is an awesome alternative to the pricier Adobe Acrobat Pro program. I used Adobe Acrobat X Pro for many years in Windows, but now I am a Mac user and Acrobat is simply too expensive. I downloaded the trial version of PDF Studio Pro and was amazed at the capabilities it brings and It allows me to easily edit documents, annotate, format fields, etc. It allows easy reordering of pdf documents and digital signature. I would say the best part of this product is that is affordable while maintaining all the capabilities the more expensive products like Adobe Acrobat brings. You can downloaded the software here - https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/

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Version 11.0.5

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Version 11.0.5

PDF studio have an "import pdf in layer" future, wich permit me to build a pdf multi-layers (layers of a Affinity Designer project, but AD can't export in a pdf with layers, only all layers fusioned or 1 layer by pdf) With Preview or others, it's not possible to see layers or build layers by using others pdf.

Version 10.1.0

dwp-1

09 December 2012

PDF Studio seems, overpriced considering the features of new Preview in Mountain Lion. You could also purchase PDFPenPro for an additional $10 compared to the standard version of PDF Studio and get a full featured pdf editor that performs most any task you would ask of an PDF editing program. Just my opinion!

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Version 8.0.1

2 answer(s)

Chris-Habig

20 April 2013

But, but..."Open any pdf document and send it to the printer."!

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Psychiatry

01 January 2016

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC costs $450. It is THE standard. It is worth the full price. So in comparison, PDF Studio is inexpensive.
Developers need to price their software what they believe it is worth, and not race to the bottom just because there are free alternatives or there are consumers who only want cheap. You don't make a living by selling your product for cheap.

PDF Studio 7 Pro is SO customizable now! I can rearrange the toolbars, set up the toolchest to make EACH type of processing I'm doing easiest. I can fill out forms online, whether they're interactive or not! And, I can revise earlier documents, like course work, or even redact sensitive information. I love being able to grab an entire directory of files (images, Word docs, PDFs, and texts) into PDF in one operation, then rearrange, markup, and save or send without having to change programs. Great job, Qoppa Software!

Version 7.3.1

3 answer(s)

lemon-kun

11 December 2012

So, your job at Qoppa Software is great… Good for you!

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Neil-M

23 January 2013

In her profile, PDF_Susan has only reviewed and rate 2 products and it turns out they are both Qoppa products, seems a bit blatant.

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Prlab

24 November 2013

The language is so obvious. Deceptive conduct.

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I've used Skim for taking notes for school and notating pdf files of articles I need to reference. pdf Studio is a much simpler program! It took 5 minutest to learn this program. I wish all programs were that simple to learn.

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Version 6.60

Just tried the pdf studio. I have been using Adobe pro on my pc for many years, and needed something to use for my macbook. I specifically needed to extract/delete pages, and/or insert pages, and scan. Occasionally highlight text. Rarely change text. This product is just a fraction of the cost, but does everything except change existing text. Wow... It is a bargain.

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Version 6.40

4 answer(s)

Bolonga

15 March 2011

I cant't comment on PDF Studio, but are you aware that Preview - Apple's software that comes with OS X - since its Leopard version does everything you're asking for as well but the cost is 100 % less than even PDF Studio? In Preview you can as well add, remove, rearrange pages, scan, annotate and highlight text. Again, other than that PDF Studio might offer a lot more (forms, batch processing ...)

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Rubaiyat

15 March 2011

Preview can't edit text either. A big omission on Apple's part. For a start it makes filling out forms impossible.

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Bolonga

15 March 2011

Correct. Although Preview got better and better with each incarnation of OS X, there remains room for improvement. Anyhow, I was merely relating to Dr Bob B's "List Of Specific Needs", where Preview fulfils all his requests but "Rarely change text". If $60 is a bargain for something one rarely needs depends on how important that feature is if only rarely needed. Regards

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Qoppa Software

23 March 2012

Dr Bob B, your missing capability noted in the fall of 2010 has been addressed by PDF Studio 7! If you upgrade your older version to the current 7.3.1, you'll gain the ability to modify PDFs, too!

This product is pretty good when it comes to the batch processing, which is something that I will use on a regular basis given the work that I do. I also think the Google Docs feature they added will help out alot with people like me who find it easier to be able to access my documents without having take additional steps to complete my work. Time is money to me.

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Version 6.21

The app doesn't look great, but for me it has one feature that I didn't find elsewhere yet: I am a user of an Intuos tablet and want to do free-hand annotations (corrections) to a PDF file that I can then send other people involved. Preview doesn't do it ; Skim does the graphical annotation very poorly and you cannot export it as PDF. PDF Studio does it properly. Any other alternative apps known?

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Version 6.01

5 answer(s)

Rubaiyat

15 March 2011

Preview has a large number of annotation options. Must you use the tablet's? If it doesn't work maybe the most fruitful option is to make suggestions to Intuos.

Baaden

15 March 2011

Update: I found *my* best solution. It's called PDFpen, and works like a charm. And yes, I really want to use freehand annotations with the tablet (as if I were working on paper) and not the predefined highlights, boxes etc., which take more time to annotate if you have lots of them. That being said, GoodReader on iPad is another option I start using now.

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Rubaiyat

15 March 2011

@Baaden Whatever happened to Ink? That was a Tiger technology from memory.

Baaden

16 March 2011

@Rubaiyat I haven't tried Ink for ages, but as far as I remember it's idea is a bit different. You can use the tablet as alternative to the keyboard, eg hand-write on screen, which is then analyzed and 'typed' in the active application. But I don't think there was an option to use ink for graphical annotations of documents - or I must have completely missed it.

sgmason

31 October 2011

Hi Baaden, you write in March that your best solution is PDFpen, but this doesn't appear to allow much free writing unless I'm missing something. When I write with my tablet, as soon as I lift my pen, the tool switches back to the pointer and my text is highlighted in a box so that I can move it. Am I missing something?

I think it's more than about time for these developers who port Windows apps to the Mac platform to either quit doing so or spend the time making an app that actually looks, acts, and feels like a native Mac app. Go with Preview and Skim. They're both free!

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Version 6.01

1 answer(s)

Dr-Girlfriend

30 September 2009

I agree. Formulate Pro is another good free one. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19911/formulatepro

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Version 6.01

I really can not see the point of these programs. Except for the ability to fill in pdf forms just about everything else can be done in Preview in OSX 10.5. What Mac users really need is a method for distilling postscript files or checking for adequate resolution and to convert rgb intrusions in cmyk .pdfs going to commercial printers. Neat and fast ways of splitting up multi-page pdfs for importing into Cocoa apps would be good as well. I agree with all the other posters that this is the laziest port of software I have seen in a long time and I would not dream of paying what they are asking. Maybe the message will hit home and they will do some work on this after realising that the Mac market is not as desperate as the PC market.

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Version 5.51

6 answer(s)

Mkirkwag

07 October 2010

Unfortunately, Preview does NOT allow you to append pages from other PDF documents - a crucial feature for some of us.

Version 6.50

Craig42a

15 March 2011

@Mkirkwag ::: Preview does allow you to do that. Just drag and drop using the sidebar in Preview. Easy. Simple.

Rubaiyat

15 March 2011

@Mkirkwag Actually Preview's method is the easiest way of appending any number of pages where you want them. Apple unfortunately does not document the fantastic set of features in this and other supplied software. There are however tutorial videos and tips if you are persistent enough to chase them down on Apple's website.

Mkirkwag

16 March 2011

Rubaiyat and Craig42a, I wish one of you would show me how. I've tried drag and drop, searched for an import command, searched the net high and low to find a way to do do it and never found it. Move pages, yes. Append docs, no. I'm not sure what could be simpler than click, insert page, click, but I'd certainly be delighted to see it!

Rubaiyat

16 March 2011

@Mkirkwag Works best in Snow Leopard, there were some bugs previously. Menu > View > Sidebar > Show Sidebar > click on little cluster of squares bottom right Then click on & drag and drop thumbnails between open Preview pdfs and to & from Desktop.

Mkirkwag

17 March 2011

Thanks, Rubaiyat! That worked. It's clunkier than the acrobat pro version, but it works and it's free. I guess I'd never tried clicking on that silly button, and all I did was change programs. Having to have everything all lined up and the right button chosen - I'd have never figured it out.

PDF Studio Standard

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Features in PDF Studio Standard

Additional features in PDF Studio Pro

What's new in PDF Studio Standard

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