Adobe Acrobat, the de facto PDF software, is an expensive utility when you only occasionally need to alter PDF documents. But when you need to, it is nice to have something readily available that works and works well. Even with Office 2013 gaining the ability to edit PDFs, there is still a place for the utilities that make manipulating PDFs easy. PDFMate Free PDF Merger is one of those free tools that can help you alter a PDF to be what you need. In addition, PDFMate PDF Converter allows you to convert PDF to various formats.
PDFMate Free PDF Merger
You can download the software for free from www.pdfmate.com/free-pdf-merger.html It is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
The application does require install. The installer is just a 4 MB download. During the install process, you will want to select Custom Installation and uncheck the boxes to “Install the AVG toolbar and set AVG Secure Search as my default search provider” and “Set AVG Secure Search as my homepage and newly opened tabs”.
You can quickly merge multiple PDFs together and selectively specify the page range to be merged. You can also convert BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIF files to PDF. Additionally, you can combine PDFs together into one page for simplified printing, such as 2 pages tiled on one or 4 tile on one. This can be done with batch processing to speed up your workflow. Finally, you can encrypt a PDF using separate passwords for opening the file and editing, copying, and printing.
You can stick with the free version or upgrade to get the ability to convert PDFs to 6 different formats, personalize output with advanced settings, and get lifetime free upgrades and support.
PDFMate Free PDF Converter
You can download the software for free from www.pdfmate.com/pdf-converter-free.html It is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
The application does require install. The installer is a 26 MB download. During the install process, you will want to select Custom Installation and uncheck the boxes to “Install the AVG toolbar and set AVG Secure Search as my default search provider” and “Set AVG Secure Search as my homepage and newly opened tabs”.
PDF Converter allows you to convert PDFs to EPUB eBooks, editable plain text or Word documents, or to common files like JPG, HTML, SWF, and password protected PDF. You can set up the conversions to happen with batch processing to convert a number of PDF files to various formats. You can queue them up, walk away, and come back to your documents being converted and ready to go.
You can choose to upgrade to gain the ability to convert PDF to Microsoft Office 2003 Word Document, specify any page or page range of the PDF to convert, and get lifetime free upgrades and support.
