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Adobe Acrobat Standard?

I am at the point that I need to be able to get into and manipulate PDF files that are sent to me. Adobe Acrobat Standard claims I will able to save PDFs as word documents or excel spreadsheet and edit them then turn them back into PDFs. The program costs $299 so would like to get opinions from others who have used it before shelling out the money. Does anyone out there know anything about this?

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Permalink Reply by misterhinkydink on July 21, 2011 at 9:03am

OpenOffice can do all of that and it's free.

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Permalink Reply by Chris on July 21, 2011 at 9:15am

If I down load that suite of programs how well do they work with Office?

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Permalink Reply by misterhinkydink on July 21, 2011 at 9:30am

I use it exclusively when dealing with Office-generated documents without a hitch. YMMV of course.

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Permalink Reply by Bluegoo on July 22, 2011 at 8:47am

OpenOffice has been improved and given a new name. It's been renamed LibreOffice loads faster and so on. I loaded a pdf file and could edit the pdf file. It can make pdf files too.

http://www.libreoffice.org/

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Permalink Reply by Aaron Greenwood on July 22, 2011 at 12:08pm

I agree OpenOffice or LibreOffice are equal to Microsoft Office. Most people never use more than 1/1000 of the power of any of the office suites. Most of the suites are similar enough that the learning curve for changing is minimal.

You don't have to worry about quality or compatibility. OpenOffice and LibreOffice have been developed over the years by dedicated volunteers and supported by the likes of Sun Microsystems and Oracle. This is an international effort using the power of the Internet.