One other thing, which I use both on Mac and Windows (or at least did before I escaped Windows - Yay!) is that if you have a Canon scanner, the CanoScan ToolBox or MX Navigator software are both very handy. I've seen Acrobat 8 even go for <60 on ebay if you catch the right moment.

Vista requires 8.1+) you might consider an old/cheap copy of acrobat. Depending what version of Windows you have (i.e. If you're looking at pay-for stuff, Jaws PDF Editor is quite capable. I'm sure there's loads of other stuff out there, but having trawled through the mound of crapware a long time ago those were the things I settled on. is a program that decrypts PDFs when you don't know the password, in many cases anyway, without taking ages cracking the password.

Rotation, watermarking and a few other things can be done with Just ignore the Editor programme - it's a freeware thing that also installs a shareware programme you can just ignore. (if you haven't, I use PDFCreator, which is an open source thing)ī圜PDFMetaEdit is handy for deleting, reordering pages and adding metadata etc Assuming you've got PDF creation sorted already.

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