Likelihood to Recommend It's great for presentations. It makes even the most drab presentation more interesting, and gives you the ability to add animated elements to your presentation. Everybody uses Microsoft PowerPoint, but for Mac it's a little slow and unresponsive. Flip PDF Pro for Mac kind of solves that issue – you can build your project in InDesign, export it out, then import it into Flip PDF Pro. It sounds like a bit of a process but it's actually very easy. Any designer can pick it up and run with it.
Read full review Litera Desktop has many functions, but it is still a user-friendly program. Very easy to implement and easy to train. We send a variety of documents to clients and other legal professionals electronically. Litera will clean and scrub documents so that there is no hidden metadata when the documents are transferred. This keeps not only our clients and their files safe, but it keeps our email programs safe and clean as well.
Read full review Pros You can customize or add certain things like your title, logo, toolbar icon appearance, background, fonts, etc. It feels a lot like a design program – which is nice, as a designer. The program allows you to embed almost any sort of media into your flip book – GIFs are easy to add in and work with, they add a dynamic element to your presentation (which wasn't possible before). You can create these things called “hot spots” – basically certain trigger areas in your document that can activate something when clicked – like take you to a e-commerce site, for example. Read full review Clearly shows the changes between two documents using multiple colors of text and crossing-out and underlining. Has diverse options for savings and sending the comparison document (Word, PDF and its own proprietary file format). Has multiple options for letting you review each of the changes (in sequential order or by type of change). Read full review Cons My documents sometimes had a problem with import and output – sometimes it would take a substansial amount of time to export something. In their mulit-lingual version, our freelance linguist caught some mistakes, some words were not translated or translated into other languages – which can make us look pretty bad. There's a limit on audio you can output for each page in your document – it had to be "one audio for two pages". Read full review It is the best when comparing any text or fragment of any content. It helps us to better understand the purchases at the moment of making a move in our newsroom. Its compatibility with other systems is very effective and safe, it makes us communicate safely. Read full review Usability They have done a good job of now overloading Workshare Compare with extra features it doesn't need. This does a couple of things:
It means the interface doesn't have too many menus or too many buttons to click. Everything is straightforward and easy to use. It keeps the software fast. It makes it easy on the user to decide when you do and do not need to use this software. Read full review Performance I gave Workshare Compare such a high rating because I don't think I could do my job without it. It has just become so integral to my workflow, that if I were to ever change jobs I think I would have to insist my new employer to me a license. It is fast and just works 99% of the time. It is very rare that it gives me errors, and when it does it's likely because the underlying document is corrupted, not because of any issues with Workshare Compare.
Read full review Alternatives Considered There are several PDF conversion programs out there, but really Flip PDF Pro for Mac is probably the best one that I've encountered. The amount of versatility in the program really sells it to me. It works just like a design program, but as a customizable PDF, and it's easy-to-use interface really helps speed things up with our workflow and process. There's a lot of competitors out there, but none of them really stack up.
Read full review The interaction that can be done within this software is very different from the others. One of the most important is that it is dedicated to quickly and easily summarize the work of comparing files, without having to work a lot to do it. Also, it is a program that helps to discover the direct opinion among the users of these documents.
Read full review Return on Investment It makes our presentations more interesting and dynamic. It allows us to go around using Microsoft PowerPoint (which is a little slow and unresponsive on Mac). Using its animation and hotlink elements, we're able to broaden our services with this program. It really helps out a lot. Read full review Document Security is of paramount concern and Workshare 9 is a workhorse. Accuracy of Document Comparison is also a a critically important task and it is done to perfection. Read full review ScreenShots