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PDF Converter Professional 8.0 Software for Windows

PDF Converter Professional 8

PDF Converter Professional 8 is smart yet simple-to-use software that lets business users improve the way they create, convert, securely share PDF files and collaborate. Featuring word processor-like editing, real-time interactive collaboration with multiple people, Cloud connectivity, PDF security, compressed PDFs and Dragon® Notes, it dramatically improves business productivity. Now compatible with Windows 8!

It’s the smarter way for savvy professionals and knowledge workers to:

• Convert paper and PDF into Microsoft Office documents
• Effortlessly create 100% industry-standard PDF files
• Search and highlight information in PDFs
• Control, view, edit, and print documents with complete security
• Open or save your PDF to popular cloud services
• Securely and efficiently collaborate

New and Improved

NEW - Advanced Edit - Only PDF Converter Professional offers a new Advanced Edit tab that converts and displays your document as a fully editable document. This allows much faster and more fluid editing without having to move to a word processor. NEW - Connect to the Cloud - New connectors allow files to be opened from popular cloud services, such as DropBox and Evernote. Modified results can be returned to these sites. NEW - Gaaiho Collaboration - Share, edit and discuss document changes using text or voice chat in real-time with multiple people. NEW - Collect Information from Forms - Export data from single forms to additional file types, such as XFDF, XML and TXT. Users can also export data from multiple forms with the same data field sets to XML and CSV files that can be opened by Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet programs. NEW - Create Smaller PDF Files - Reduce the file size of existing PDF documents easier than ever before with the new Reduce File Size feature. Also available is the option to reduce the size of multiple files at once in batch mode. NEW - Speak Notes without Typing with Dragon Notes - Create notes quickly and accurately in PDF files by speaking them instead of using the keyboard. It’s much faster than typing and easy to do using any standard microphone and the included Dragon Notes tool. NEW - Preview PDF Email Attachments in Microsoft Outlook - Get an instant visual preview of PDF email attachments without having to open them. IMPROVED – Unify Microsoft Office, Images, and PDF files into a Single PDF Portfolio – It’s more versatile than zipping files. You can combine files of multiple types into a PDF without changing the original file type. Microsoft Office users can view and edit documents directly within a PDF Portfolio.

NEW - Additional PDF-Creation Workflow options when Working with Microsoft Office - Take advantage of the ability to print to the PDF printer from a Microsoft Office application so the file opens in PDF Converter Professional without having to save it locally.

Enhanced Stamp Creation - Create signature and custom stamps in addition to the supplied set by right-clicking on a selected area. Stamps can now be applied to all pages of a document in one move.

The smart replacement for Adobe® Acrobat®, PDF Converter Professional 8 enables simple, yet powerful PDF creation, editing, conversion and collaboration to deliver maximum cost savings without compromising functionality or ease of use.

PDF Converter Professional supports effortless creation of 100% industry-standard PDF files and the most accurate conversion of PDF files to Microsoft® Word, Excel®, PowerPoint® and Corel® WordPerfect® documents. It also provides unique features such as word processor-like editing, real-time interactive collaboration, cloud connectivity, PDF security, and Dragon® Notes speech recognition to dramatically increase business productivity at a surprisingly affordable price.

Overview

Never retype another document - Don’t waste valuable time recreating PDF files in other applications. PDF Converter Professional 8 lets you accurately convert PDF files to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Corel WordPerfect documents with columns, tables and graphics intact.

Produce more professional-looking documents - Deliver documents that look as good in print as they do on screen no matter where you send or view them. Combine any type of files and/or folders into striking PDF Portfolios—with attractive cover pages that guide readers to the information they need—viewable with any popular PDF reader.

Get word-processing capabilities in your PDF - Eliminate the frustration of having to re-create or locate an original document to repurpose and edit its contents. Advanced editing functionality converts PDF files into fluid and dynamic PDF documents with full word processing capabilities—all at the click of a button.

Collaborate like never before - Use Gaaiho™ Collaboration to exchange ideas and interact in real time with other PDF Converter Professional 8 users. Share documents and use multi-user editing to gather feedback instantly and accelerate project completion. These interactive collaboration features are ideal for professional and student teams that need to work together in real time on important projects.

Collect information with forms - Don’t’ let the hassle of filling out long forms slow down business. The FormTyper™ tool automatically converts non-fillable forms into fillable PDF forms that you can complete, save and email. Create forms from scratch with easy-to-use form drawing tools. Even export information contained in filled-in forms so you can sort, search and analyze the data using popular file types like XFDF, XML, TXT and CSV.

Speak your notes - With integrated Dragon Notes speech recognition, you can use your voice to quickly capture ideas and comments directly within your PDF files. Simply speak to create text notes in far less time than it takes to type. It’s a fast, accurate way to boost productivity when working with PDFs.

Easily connect to the cloud - New connectors allow you to open files from popular cloud services, such as Box, Google Docs™, Windows Live® SkyDrive®, Office 365, Evernote® and Dropbox. Once you’ve made changes, you can send the updated files back to these sites.

Combine and assemble documents with ease - Combine files and remove or replace pages with drag-and-drop ease. View and select pages from a source document such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, JPG, BMP, TIF, or XPS. Then just drag and drop the pages to add them to the target PDF document. It’s that simple. You can even create complete PDF document sets directly from multiple Microsoft Office applications.

Enhance document security - Control document viewing, printing and modification by adding passwords with secure 128-bit or 256-bit AES encryption and permission controls to PDF files. Automatically inspect documents and remove sensitive data for safe, secure document sharing. Or flatten everything in a document, including signatures, stamps, mark-ups, annotations, filled form fields and graphics, for enhanced document security.

System Requirements

• A computer with a Intel® Pentium® 4 , higher or equivalent processor
• Supported operating systems:
• Windows 8 32-bit or 64-bit Edition
• Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit Edition with Service Pack 1
• Windows XP 32-bit Edition with Service Pack 3
• Windows Vista 32-bit or 64-bit Editions with Service Pack 2
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or above
• 512 MB of memory (RAM),1 GB recommended
• 700 MB of free hard disk space for application files; additional space needed for temporary installer files
• Web access needed for product registration, activation, Dragon Notes and obtaining live updates for the program
• Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0 installed
• DVD-ROM drive (required for installation)
• Noise-cancelling headset microphone for Dragon Notes (not included)

Note: Performance and speed will be enhanced if your computer’s processor, memory and available disk space exceed minimum requirements.