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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Acrobat

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).

    $29.99

    per month per seat

    PDFCreator

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APDFCreator, created by pdfforge in Hamburg, is a free tool that converts printable documents to PDF and many other formats (PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF, etc).

    $20.60

    per year per workstation

    Pricing
    Adobe AcrobatPDFCreator
    Editions & Modules
    Acrobat Pro for Individuals
    $19.99
    per month
    Acrobat Pro for Teams
    $23.99
    per month per user
    Acrobat Studio for Individuals
    $24.99
    per month
    Professional - 100+ licenses
    $20.60
    per month per workstation
    Professional - 50 to 99 licenses
    $22.90
    per month per workstation
    Professional - 25 to 49 licenses
    $25.20
    per month per workstation
    Professional - 1 to 24 licenses
    $27.50
    per month per workstation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe AcrobatPDFCreator
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe AcrobatPDFCreator
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Acrobat
    Acrobat is the gold standard. It is the Cadillac of pdf software packages. PDFCreator is a good solid program that will work well in environments that need the basic pdf acrobat functions. It is a much better price point too. But if you need all the bells and whistles, I have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Acrobat
    There is no comparison to any other app out there that I know of. Acrobat does it all. Handles pdfs like no other.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Acrobat
    This worked much better then what I have used in the past. We used Adobe Acrobat DC because this is what was chooser for our large company size. They manage bigger companies better, according to our executives at HQ.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Acrobat
    Adobe is the industry standard. The learning curve for inward and outward users was much easier. We are an education based organization, so our documents need to be reliable and compliant for safety and accessibility measures.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Acrobat
    There really is no product like Adobe Acrobat DC on the market
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Acrobat
    Adobe Acrobat is a lot more user friendly. I navigate around a lot easier. With the others there is always some limitations.
    Incentivized
    pdfforge
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Adobe AcrobatPDFCreator
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (481 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (237 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (56 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
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