PDF Architect Reviews

Every time I have asked for help I receive it timely and effortlessly. Great people to work with. The program is easy to use. Support is wonderful!

I received a response quite quickly and was helped totally. The program is easy to use and support is great!

I cannot think of anything I do not like. There is nothing bad about the program or the support.

Very good product and value for money for professionals and scientists like me. I like it very much.

Very good product and value for money for professional scientists like me. Use is very elegant and easy.

Additional features need to be purchased separately.

I had a problem with the printing menu, wrote to the support and got a helpful mail within 48 hours.

Easy to apply, I find the printing menu helpful. Many features for editing, quite universally for different documents.

I find it difficult to open old PDFs to find them in the file folder.

Hate it nowadays, just does not work, is the worst program I ever used after the update 9 version, just like that, asks for password for every document, documents that do not have this feature, it is making me crazy.

I used to like very much the features, but after the 5 version the new one' s change not only the design but presented bugs over bugs.

Nowadays the pro version is not working simply like that. I paid to much money for this product and would like to continue the free version, because the pro ones are useless.

I feel my prior comments express that I am extremely pleased with my overall experience using their products.

No matter how good software may be, there will always be a reason at sometime to need customer support. That is why I put a lot of importance in that area. PDF Architect excels in that area and have no problem recommending all of their products.

I have not experienced any issues that I could classify as a con.

After years of being a customer, and having chronic problems with both ordering and billing, I have concluded that this is basically a dishonest company, and I will no longer purchase their products.

They have no accountability, and there is no way for a customer to resolve a problem, even after weeks and weeks of trying. No tech support or customer support either. No phone number to call... just

Strong 'Don't buy' recommendation!

This product does everything I need it to do, and at a competitive price. I switched from Adobe Acrobat Pro primarily because of Adobe's price gouging.

I have not discovered anything I need to do that can't be done with PDF Architect (except reach their customer support!)

Terrible customer support, virtually non-existent. My order was screwed up and the company cannot be reached to fix it after numerous tries.

Also, the ordering process added things (features), I didn't want to my order, which doubled the price, and you couldn't tell until after committing to the order payment. After the fact, no one at the company can be reached, or is wiling to respond.

I upgraded to PDF Architect Pro after using the free product for many years. My work product has become more sophisticated and the features available in this model addressed those needs.
I had to upgrade my MS platform after purchasing the Pro version and had some problems. Angela of customer service was instantly available and guided me through all the necessary adjustments. She was courteous, diligent and thorough. I highly recommend PDF Architect Pro and the customer service that accompanies this pdf viewer/editor. Many thanks.

Features in the Professional version offer a greatly expanded range of options than the free version of PDF Architect at a very reasonable price.

I never had a problem with the free version but it was limited in its application.

it is a little cumbersome to try to line up the text to overwrite. For the price, I guess it is okay, but as an editor, it is sub quality.

You can modify an existing file by using text boxes and overwriting the document's text areas you want to change.
Price is better for the infrequent user.

Can't do any copying of the PDF, text or otherwise. Only with the OCR version can you do this. Adobe Acrobat offers this with their free version. Disappointing that they can throw in at least what other free PDF editors can do.

I'm using PDF Architect Standard to produce my documents because the pdf format is universal. Really easy to produce and distribute documentation with this tool.

Simplicity of use.
In the PDF Standard version I often use the "Edit" and "Page" features.
That allow me saving a lot of time when producing new documents regarding the same subject.

Only one wish: Having the Forms features in the PDF Standard version. That will be great!

Looking for a free program what will merge pdf files offline. PDF Architect claims to support merging with their free version - but it hasn't worked for me - so far.

If there's something I'm missing, please let me know, and I'll update this - and apologize.

Per their website, PDF Architect the Free Version supports merging PDF files. And the merge interface is relatively easy to use.

Attempting to merge PDF files with the Free Version requires "activation" - and payment. It appears to be impossible to save a merged PDF with the free version.

Very satisfied from previous experience in another company. Now I have installed for my own company.

Good value for money, technical support, excellent features and design, easy to use, e-sign feature.

For the purpose that I am using this products there are no cons.

I never got to use it - the nagging process was just too annoying for me. Stay away from its free version.

I never got to try the free features that I wanted. It was too annoying for me to use the free version.

It was running a service or a check at login - which displayed a rather large nagging screen that I needed to "resolve issues" with it - by buying a licence. That is just too much nagging for me!

The paid version was quite limited in its commenting & marking up tools. You also need to watch out for the automatic subscription renewal which may catch you out if you are not planning to renew. Once it renews, good luck trying to get anything back.

Generally similar to all other pdf editing tools out there & may do the job for most people if you only need it for simple editing & commenting tools.

Marking up tools are limited.
Generally pdfs can be slow to load so if you are dealing with numerous pdfs all the time, is probably not the product for you.
Watch out for automatic renewals.

If you want a half functioning PDF editor this is for you! Everything from the PDF editing, to multi doc combing works slowly, is glitchy, and has limited features. Customer service- good luck finding a phone number. Additionally, they sent me email after email during my renewal period telling me they would cancel my renewal since my card was not up to date, then charged my card and refused to refund it once I realized they had dishonestly done this. A total scam for a little less cost than Adobe PDF Pro which is a much better product.

Editing PDF text is a very useful tool when it works correctly or at all. Also has e-sign capability when it isn't erroring out.

Poor customer service.
Glitchy.
Limited editing ability.
Poor designed e-signature add-on.

I bought the perpetual license for PDF Architect 4 many years ago. I love the program. In my estimation this one of the best PDF program, my need are simple, editing, form filling and etc.

The support are excellent, when my PC hard Drive crashed, the support team gave me a new product key to continuing using the program.

Easy to use. Friendly support team. Great price for perpetual license. I have tried many other PDF programs, most of the paid program wanted to sell subscription service, I am a retired individual and don't see a good reason for me to pay for subscription.

None

Worst customer service, No accountability - IF they made changes then they should offer refunds or inform customers up front about issues!!!

I used the program for 4 years, overall it worked well! I had the pro version and it did all that I needed. See CONS - BIG CHANGES!

This year on renewal Kaspersky has blocked the program from updating, downloading, etc. Therefore I can no longer use any feature at all that I paid for! I emailed support and they confirmed in writing that they are working with Kaspersky to allow access to the program being safe - this is their problem to work out, not mine as a customer! If they are not compliant with requirements for safe operation, they need to sort that out! I added PDF Architect to my safe list and approved list and it will still not download, update or allow me to use any features! At no point in purchase or renewal do they mention that the program does not work when your system is protected by Kaspersky! This is up to PDF Architect to rectify or inform their customers! I then asked for a phone call and a refund and they refused and stopped replying! They said I was past my 30 days. My program renewal is annual and renewed in October, it was working then, this issue came up in January and I now have a PAID for program, that the supplier can not make work and will not offer ANY refund! DO NOT PURCHASE!!! YOU WILL BE WASTING YOUR MONEY IF YOU ACTUALLY NEED A FUNCTIONING RELIABLE PROGRAM!

It's not worth the pain from strange PDF compatibility problems, poor interface design and the constant activation process.

It is not as expensive as competing Adobe products and it does edit most PDFs. That's about all I can say that's positive.

There are oddball issues with printing and fillable PDFs. Several of the interface design decisions make you scratch your head trying to find features that should be self-explanatory. But the biggest pain is that at least twice a week I'll go to use it and find I have to reactivate the stupid thing. I reached out to support more than once and was told if I don't use it daily it will require reactivating. Make no sense to me. I'd stay away from this just over the activation pain.

Do not do it - do not purchase as will leave you disappointed
Not always working the way you think or would like. Always had problems with the app just overlooked the inconvenience as I managed to get by.
No being able to use properly is a bridge too far.

Seemed alright - used V7 and upgraded to V8 due to cost benefit.
Lot of flashy potential but cost.

App lost internet connection on 01/01/22, a common problem which does not allow you to access your paid version.
Cannot resolve by self or by support - only got to use 2 months of subscription.
Support is minimal or useless.
Will have to buy a PDF subscription elsewhere as I need for work.

Auto-renewal is not exactly what they say; they automatically process renewal fees to your credit card, but the application deactivates. Most of the customer service reps don't know how to reactivate. I lost over 45 days because it deactivated.

Application is fairly easy to use and will accomplish the basic needs. Editing pdf is possible but is tedious.

Customer service is horrible and continues to decline. Customer service isn't knowledgeable or is poorly trained with their product.

If you need to adjust or otherwise work in PDFs with some regularity, I'd suggest a different product. This one is not reliable.

I was hoping this software could do what I needed at a better price point than the brand name software.

The program has a lot of flaws: I cannot edit PDFs adequately. It's clear I've made an edit, versus it blending seamlessly into the document. At times, the program would seize up and not allow me to adjust the size of a window, for example, or not open a document at all, often necessitating a reboot. Finally, when I declined to extend my license, I was kicked out of the program with a month left on my original license.