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PDF Converter Professional 4 (discontinued)

PDF Converter Professional 4

Entered CNET Catalog: 09/12/2006

SKU: M109A-G01-4.0

Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc. (ScanSoft)

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User Rating: 4/10

"tylerjerome" is a shill, this is not a good product

Pros: lots of features

Cons: most features don't work very good

Review: I really didn't want to do a lot of conversion; I just wanted to be able to put comments and minor edits to .pdf files. This program can't even do an accurate job of displaying .pdf files. If you have a low frustration level, look elsewhere.

User Rating: 4/10

Better options available

Pros: If you fight with it long enough it might work

Cons: Hard to use, help not very helpful

Review: I had been using Acrobat 6 on my desktop and found it quite easy to use. I decided to try a chaeper program for my laptop. I found PDF converter ot be awkward to use. I have beenable to convert PDF files only to Word, Wordperfect and Excel. No other options seem to be available. There may be more functionality than I have discovered but being familiar with acrobat I didn't expect to have to spend a lot of time using a completely new inteface.
My suggeation is that if you plan to spend a lot of time working with PDF files spring fot the extra money and buy Acrobat. If you are only going to use this occasionaly check out pdf995 which you can use for free or $29 without the ads. pdf995 doesn't have a particularly easy interface but it is the right price and has more functions.

User Rating: 2/10

VERY POOR PRODUCT

Pros: NICE LOOKING BOX

Cons: DON'T BELIEVE WHAT THE BOX SAYS

Review: THE BOX SAYS, "3 Accurately turn PDF Files into Microsoft Office and Corel WordPerfect documents." Maybe 10% of the time.

If you print more than one copy, it just keeps printting and printing. And it costs you $9.95 to e-mail tech support. Bananas!

User Rating: 3/10

Way too many bugs

Pros: Cheaper than Acrobat

Cons: Too many bugs

Review: After installing this software, MS Office 2003 started having problems, getting hung up. Whenever I tried to open a PDF from a web page, Internet Explorer failed. The Nuance website has almost no knowledge base and there is no manual for this version. I am returning the software for a refund.

I also tried Nitro PDF tial version. It, too, was buggy. Is Adobe the only workable option???

User Rating: 10/10

Easier to use than Adobe

Pros: Complete conversion solution.

Cons: Not more readily available.

Review: Easier to use and less expensive than Acrobat Pro. Designed to work with MS Vista.

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