PDF Studio

RATING:

4.5

(58)

About PDF Studio

PDF Studio is a PDF editing software that can be downloaded to Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. It offers an extensive set of tools and features to create, review, and edit PDF documents. With PDF Studio, users can create and assemble documents, review and annotate, edit content, complete file conversions, add security to documents, and more. This software can integrate with third-party apps including DocuSign, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. PDF Studio offers batch functions that allow users to work on multiple documents at once. To secure documents, users can use encryption, set user permissions, and manage digital IDs and trusted certificates. The software can support format PDF conversions for Word, Excel, JPG, PNG, HTML5, and many others. The content editor a...

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PDF Studio Standard: $99 one-time fee PDF Studio Pro: $139 one-time fee A single-user license includes 2 computers. Volume discounts, academia discounts, and non-profit discounts are available.

Starting price: 

$99.00 one time

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

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PDF Studio Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for PDF Studio

1 - 5 of 58 Reviews

User Profile

Luca

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2021

Super complete, fast and powerful PDF editor

PROS

Easy to edit a pdf, do everything I did with Acrobat Pro without a problem Very fast and include a lot a functionality, maybe more than Adobe

CONS

Integration with onedrive not fully working on my ubuntu

Reasons for switching to PDF Studio

I use linux on my workstation, Adobe doesn't support gnu/linux OS

Ray

Research, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed August 2020

PDF Studio 2019- solid choice for Linux users, researchers, who want a cross-platform solution.

PDF Studio is reliable tool for annotating PDFs. It is fast, easy to use, has a good UI that allows users to switch between the tradition menu bar and a ribbon bar. I use it daily for reducing the size of PDFs and converting them to png image formats for distribution.

PROS

It is truly cross-platform- I used it on my Linux, Windows, and Apple systems without any problem. Its one of the few PDF editors for Linux. It's easy to use- the menu is well designed and its much easier to find the tools I need than Adobe Acrobat with its convoluted odd menu system. It has reliable OCR built into the software and good tools for optimizing PDFs (reducing size) and for saving as image files (jpeg, png, tiff, etc).

CONS

It cannot open dynamic XFA forms, but considering that most non-Adobe PDF editors can't read them, its not unusual. Dynamic XFA forms are uncommon PDF forms render drawing and layout information. Even Adobe products don't properly support them. Unfortunately, our office used these forms regularly.

Reason for choosing PDF Studio

PDF Studio was the first to offer a native Linux version. The developer, Qoppa Software responds very quickly to all requests, bug reports, and suggestions. Support is outstanding.

Kev

Environmental Services, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2023

Does not work on Mac Studio M1 Pro

I used it daily for years and then upon upgrading last year it continually disappoints. Since I had used it for a long time and spent a lot of time and effort with customer support to try and get the 2022 version running properly, I figured that the 2023 offering would have fixed all the issues that I had highlighted to the Quoppa people, but no, it's exactly the same.

PROS

Great feature set. Adn ability to use scaled drawings and measurements

CONS

Back in 2012 (PDF Studio 12) it was fully reliable, but the recent iterations (2022 and 2023) do not work on Mac Studio M1 Max computer. Simple copy / paste errors, can't delete some annotations, print to JPG often misses some annotations, so exported jpg's are incomplete, can't re-order objects (send to back or bring to front does not work)

Reason for choosing PDF Studio

Price

Robert

Consumer Electronics, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2023

Finally a PDF editor that is fast and smooth even on huge architectural drawing.

Fantastic. Because of the tab tool bar interface, I can find tools I did not know existed and try them and because of the tap tool bar, it is not overly cluttered.

PROS

Love the interface and ease of finding the tools.

CONS

App does not respect my Logi Options mouse settings. Zooms to fast with mouse wheel.

Reasons for switching to PDF Studio

Acrobat is too slow and sluggish and because they’re trying to make this clean interface. All the tools require several clicks deep to get to them.

User Profile

Anil

Verified reviewer

Information Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

Complete PDF editing suite

PDF Studio has a user-friendly design and is the finest alternative to Adobe Acrobat. It is quick, simple to use, and has a nice user interface.

PROS

It is the best PDF editor and converter available with a low-cost perpetual license. It have optical character recognition capabilities. The best thing is that it is cross-platform and works flawlessly on Linux, Windows, and Macbooks.

CONS

I've never had any big issues using PDF Studio. However, the OCR tool did not always recognize the text.