PDF Studio Reviews

Summary: Quite happy. The price is quite good. The install doesn't take long to deploy. The upgrade from 2020.1.1 to 2020.2.0 was smooth.

Positive: Not subscription based. Easily deployed to multiple computers. The MSI and EXE can both be silently installed. This is great as it gives us more deployment options.

Negative: Still learning the ropes. I need to find ways to unregister license and uninstall the application. So far I haven't found a way to unregister PDF Studio 2020 via command line.

Summary: One of the best packages of its type running on Linux, but that is really not saying a lot. All other similar software packages for Linux are way behind Acrobat in functionality.

Positive: Rather good functionality. Reasonably good layout.

Negative: Does not support cutting and 3D PRC (Product Representation Compact) like Acrobat does. Limited functionality and reconfigurability.

Summary: 4/5
Not clumsy

Positive: PDF Studio Pro is really an useful PDF editor. Earlier I was in MS Windows and was using Adobe Acrobat. But after switching to Linux, I was having problems with PDF editing. PDF Studio Pro has compensated the crisis. This is more like Adobe Acrobat earlier versions, in terms of look and feel. That’s user friendly. As I’m neither an expert nor a commercial/professional person, I always prefer user friendlyness. Command icons are clear with tooltip already written. Menu is elaborated well break-up. Very less searching for what I’m looking at. Also, all the functions seems to be available, so far I have tried.

Negative: Yet to find. Tell me if there are any, if some bugs. I should be careful while using. Only one suggestions - add a printer driver for linux. We can generate using print command. Now it is giving errors.

Summary: What was once a great product from a great company has rapidly deteriorated under the new owner. Can no longer recommend.

Positive: Only cross-platform PDF Editor. The functionality is good, and I would not hesitate to recommend the product if not for the stupid direction they are going under the new owner.

Negative: The Apryse support department has gone downhill - they will not even test the product when a bug report is filed with an example file, insisting that the user jump through hoops including reinstalling the product and showing screenshots of what was done, even when there is only one way to do the thing described in the report.

The new owner does not honour the perpetual licence conditions, which included free point release updates, and discounted annual upgrades, insisting that users go onto a more expensive subscription just to get what they already paid for.

The user interface has regressed, replacing window decorations with their own and not picking up colours or settings from the selected theme and thereby losing integration with the system user interface, both visually and in the way the windows respond to user interaction.