Adobe ® Acrobat ® XI is an awesome application to its users. It is a perfect editor and converter.

Best Adobe Acrobat Alternative for Mac (OS Sierra Included) Why Does Adobe Acrobat Enjoy Great Popularity It cannot be denied that Adobe Acrobat is the most popular and powerful PDF editing software for Mac users, it is the grand daddy of all PDF editors and it tops the competition in every area. If you just need to create a PDF, that's built into OS X (print any document, use menu in lower left) and there's great free options on the PC (CutePDF). Those PDFs are really no more or less editable that any other PDF. If you are talking about a fillable form with text fields, buttons, drop-downs, etc., you'll need Acrobat Pro.

However, Adobe Acrobat XI was end of support on October 15, 2017. This means that there will be no more updates. Using Adobe Acrobat XI on newer versions of Windows will be a challenge since there will be no more updates to make the application compatible with these new versions. Best Alternative to Adobe ® Acrobat ® 1. PDFelement (Windows, Mac, iOS and Android) is a premium Adobe Acrobat alternative that offers multiple features on the same platform. Apart from being multi-featured, PDFelement is also multiplatform, with support for Windows 10, macOS Sierra, and iOS platforms.

The application comes with the usual set of functions that include PDF editing, viewing, and printing, and combines these with advanced functions such as PDF conversion, creation, and making documents searchable with OCR. Forms and templates can also be worked on within the application. Benefits of using PDFelement: • Easily convert files and at anytime you can create HTML, Microsoft documents, and images from files. • Create and combine multiple PDFs into one PDF.it supports batch PDF creation. • Editing of PDF files without tampering with its fonts or original document. • Create editable PDF forms from non-fillable files enhancing productivity in businesses. • It promotes the security of your documents where you can sign your own documents and even give passwords to encrypt your files.

Nitro Pro 11 (Windows) is another worthy alternative to Adobe Acrobat Windows 10 that has grown popular over the years, largely due to its integrated cloud-based solutions. Nitro Pro 11, a product of Nitro PDF, is the paid version from Nitro that bundles different features for advanced users. It can be used to edit PDF files, perform document conversions, print, and add annotations to documents that can then be shared via Nitro Cloud, a proprietary service from Nitro that connects users to the cloud. Pros: • Integrated cloud-based solution, via which Files can be shared by users. • Light and easy-to-use interface. Cons: • It has the tendency to misbehave when using OCR on large documents. • Edit experience is much worse compare to Microsoft Word.

Price: $159.99 3. Foxit PhantomPDF (Windows and Mac) is one of competitors of Adobe Acrobat XI for the earliest time. The free version of Foxit Reader contains the basic functions that Adobe provided, such as viewing, printing, and annotation features. However, the PhantomPDF line of PDF applications is released for competition with the advanced version of Adobe Acrobat.

Pros: • It has a Business version and Standard version for different usage. • Almost contain features of PDF industry in every aspects. Cons: • Too many features offered by the software, which makes it a lot more complicated to learn how to use. Price: $109 for standard version/$139 for business version 4. Infix PDF Editor 7 (Windows and Mac) Infix PDF Editor 7 is another worthy contender in the area of PDF modification and handling.

This application comes with an interesting user interface that is strikingly similar to Microsoft Word. It even works more like a Word processor in many ways, including making changes to font, text, making scanned files searchable with OCR, and images within the application. Pros: • Embedded multi-language spell-checker. • Inserts a printing module in the printer dialogue when creating PDF. Cons: • Fixed watermark for filled forms on all PDF outputs.

• Subscription mode makes it difficult to manage the company deposit. Price: $9.9 for one month or $99 for one year 5.

Master PDF Editor (Windows, Mac, and Linux) This is a simple but powerful PDF editing tool that lives up to most of its PDF editing promises. Master PDF Editor is a capable PDF text, image, and page editor that also bundles PDF creation, XPS to PDF and PDF to image conversion, the addition of PDF controls, form validation, and other editing features on a single platform. Pros: • Simple and light progrma, makes it easy to use. • Supports digital signatures and encrypt files with 128-bit encryption. Cons: • Lack of advanced features to cover your needs.