Pdfill Free Pdf Tools

[Kayleigh Telega]

Whypay full price to perform some basic tasks on PDF files? With PDFill PDF Tools (free), you can modify and edit PDF files for free.While there are many different software vendors out there that charge a pretty sum for these basic tools, PDFill has taken some of its most popular features from its paid version and offered them in a free package.With PDFill PDF Tools, you can merge/split PDF files, encrypt them with a password, scan documents and convert between PDF and image formats. It also includes rotate, corp, watermark and form field tools. PDFill also does NOT add ugly watermarks to PDF files it has created/edited.If you're looking to complete these basic PDF editing tasks, then PDFill PDF Tools (free) is what you need.Features of PDFill PDF ToolsConvert PDF to Images: Convert PDF pages to multiple images.Convert PDF to Text: Convert PDF documents to Text files.Crop Pages: Crop pages in a PDF document.Delete Pages: Delete a page or a range of pages from a PDF document.Flatten Forms: Flatten all interactive PDF forms.Form Filling: Fill PDF forms with data from Text files.Header & Footer: Add a custom header/footer to PDF pages.Insert Pages: Insert blank pages or pages from other PDFs.Merge PDF: Combine multiple PDFs into a single PDF.PDF Optimization: Optimize PDF documents for web publishing.PDF Stamping: Stamp images, texts, page numbers and date/time to PDF pages.Page Extraction: Remove a page or a range of pages from a PDF document.Rotate Pages: Rotate pages in a PDF document.Split PDF: Divide one PDF into multiple smaller PDFs.Watermark: Add a watermark to the PDF pages.Compatibility and LicenseIs PDFill PDF Tools free to download?PDFill PDF Tools is provided under a freeware license on Windows from PDF software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 14.0 is the latest version last time we checked.

PDFill is a remarkably full-featured PDF freebie. As well as the usual splitting, merging, encrypting, rotating, etc, it also has considerable other features, such as converting a PDF to an image, converting images to PDF (great if you do a lot of scanning), adding headers and footers, and converting postscripts into a PDF.

In a default installation, a PDF button appears inside Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel to start PDFill directly. You can also insert the same button into the Internet Explorer browser, and into the Quick Launch and SendTo functions of Windows. If you go this route, it integrates very tightly into your system, becoming the go-to program for any PDF editing needs. These options are voluntary, and you can easily de-select them at installation.

PDFill consists of Editor, Writer, and Tools. Editor, whose interface resembles Microsoft Word 2003, is the paid $20 version of PDFill. If you decide not to buy it, Editor remains fully functional, but it stamps a watermark on any file it touches. PDFill Editor provides a variety of pro-level functions such as creating form fields; writing, drawing, or highlighting pages in a PDF; and exporting and importing form data; as well as the usual PDF file management tools of cropping, rotating, converting, and so on.

PDFill Writer creates PDF files by attaching itself to your PC printer function. When you want to create a PDF, select CTRL + P to open your printer dialog box then drop the box down and choose the PDFill Writer option.

PDFill PDF Tools is a free useful suite of utilities that will help you to change the layout of your PDF documents. These free tools will allow you to merge and add watermarks to PDF files; reorder, split, rotate, or crop PDF pages, and even convert images and PostScript files into PDF documents. PDFill FREE PDF Tools requires GhostScript to be installed in order for it to function; it will check your system upon first run to determine if you have GhostScript installed, and will automatically download and install it if you don't have it.

If you have more time on your hands than you know what to do with, AND you'd like to know more about a lot of the PDF software out there, check out the Wikipedia article here. It covers software that converts, creates, edits, and views PDFs, in flavors available for more operating systems than you knew existed. If this isn't enough for you, there's yet another list of PDF software here in the Open Directory Project. Have fun.

PDF means "Portable Document Format," and was invented by Adobe, who made the specification available for free in 1993. However, they kept the format proprietary until 2008, when they officially released it as an open standard. (Ref.)

PDF files are a way to combine images and computer-searchable text into a single document that is readable no matter what kind of computer you have. It allows you to include scanned paper documents or printable computer files into a single package (think electronic paper) that you can then share with any other computer user (hence the "Portable" in the name).

On a Mac, you can do this natively (update - even in Finale). Simply open your print dialog (File/Print or Command-P), as you do for a normal printing procedure, and select the "PDF" button in the lower left corner of the dialog. Thanks to some sharp-eyed group members, we now know if you're running Finale on a Mac, this option is available.

On a PC, you'll need to install PDF printing software. This software installs as a printer on your system, so when you elect to print a document, the PDF printer appears as one of your available printers. Simply select the PDF printer, click OK, and you'll get a dialog asking where to save the resulting PDF file.

For PCs, PDF printing software used and recommended by our members includes PDFill Writer (free), PrimoPDF (free), and Adobe Acrobat (expensive). We will add more programs as we receive submissions about them.

In LINUX, you may not need to install software. In a 2009 blog posting, the author says all you need to do is choose the "Print To File" option in the print dialog box, and select the PDF option. (Verification of this needed. Any LINUX users reading this?)

I started with a PDF of "Elephantine Polka" (a tuba solo with concert band) downloaded from BandmusicPDF.org (it's in the public domain) and merged the modern piccolo and horn parts that someone else had created. The resulting size of the merged file was

3. Next, I went to TOOLS > Document Processing > Optimize Scanned PDF: There I selected All Pages, and set the filters to Deskew: On; Background Removal: Medium; Descreen: On; and Text Sharpening: Medium. When I told it to optimize, it said it found a page that was already optimized and did I want to continue anyway? I said yes, do that for all pages.

After this, I tried several other manipulations in Acrobat, but wasn't able to get the file any smaller, except once by accident, I got it down to about 1,130 kb, but unfortunately, I don't remember what I did.

I used PDFill's OPTIMIZER on the merged file mentioned above, and it went from an original size of 16,452kb to a size of 27,363kb. I may have done something wrong, but I followed the instructions on their website. Based on this, I cannot recommend PDFill for this purpose.

I took the bloated, 27MB file mentioned above and opened it in Foxit Reader. From there I selected PRINT and selected the Foxit Reader Printer. In the print dialog, I selected: Compress images using lossy algorithm; Color: B&W; Image resolution: 300. The resulting file size was

I then opened the 1.9MB file (the result of the Acrobat test above) in Acrobat, selected PRINT, then selected the Foxit Reader Printer. I used the same print settings as the previous test. The resulting file size was

I did a quick and nasty test on the free version of Orpalis PDF Reducer. I started with a very bloated pdf of "Central Park West." (He produced) the following test files: (View the files by clicking the links)

Orpalis Free is not terribly user-friendly, but the results make it worth fiddling with. If I didn't already have Acrobat, I would buy that before I bought the pro version of Orpalis, but for free it's definitely worth at least a try. I would like to hear what other people think, since it's hard to make a judgement from this test on one original pdf.

For what it's worth I don't see the benefit of compressing these files so dramatically to save one megabyte of space. The original has smooth lines and is printable. The end result after all that compression is a jaggly mess that's only really suitable as the basis for a restoration.

If that program produces jaggy lines then it's worthless. Acrobat will optimize and 11mb pdf to less than 1mb without making the file unusable. Yesterday I tried to send the group a before & after, but the 11mb was too big. Here is the 'after' (one page of it), I think it's very usable. There's also two heavier compression setting than this one. I've used the next setting also and it also looked reasonably good.

The bottom line is if you want REALLY small files, try this software; but if you want higher quality, you might be better comparing the samples in the links above and perhaps sticking with Acrobat or similar.

NOTICE ABOUT SOURCES FOR ACROBAT: Lots of people are saying Adobe Acrobat is too expensive. Well, if you buy the brand new version, it probably is. However, there are two things you need to be aware of: First Adobe has now gone totally to the SUBSCRIPTION sales model. As far as I know, they no longer sell their products outright - they only sell "Subscriptions" to them. So you can purchase "the use of" any of their products for about $20 a month, or for ALL of their products for about $50 a month. I don't know if there is any kind of annual commitment, but I don't think there is. The second thing you need to know is there ARE older versions of their software still for sale on the internet.

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