Manuel Ferreira

Manuel Ferreira

Senior software developer
PDFgear
PDFGear is the most complete PDF Editor / Management Tool I have had the chance to use, to the point I can see it is a superior alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro; faster install and a far smaller install size. From a consumer perspective, it is great with the free pricing. If the pricing model changes, for enterprise users customers, I fear many would be hesitant to chose it over Adobe due to pre-established provider agreements, track record, and inertia. I think if there is high visiblity of pro-consumer data handling, and enough trust is built, many small enterprise customers would be willing to choose PDFGear over Adobe. Features that I think people may appreciate (as of 2025/10), but that are frankly just nice to haves. - Find and Replace (there is find, but no replace currently) - Freestyle drawing with a drawing pen (like in Word) - Ability to select font and color of free text annotation - Ability to search for a font (vs just scrolling fonts field) when editing text (it already matches current font, which is great)

What's great

free tier (7)fast performance (1)easy setup (1)comprehensive PDF editing (4)
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