My favorite PDF Editor of ALL Time
December 17, 2024

My favorite PDF Editor of ALL Time

Douglas S Bush | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

FoxitPhantom (legacy)

Overall Satisfaction with Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom)

I have Foxit PDF Editor Standard Edition Version: 10.1.12.37872. I like the permanence of it. I use most of the features frequently but I use the features on the Fill & Sign tab, the Insert, Delete, Extract, and particularly the Flatten features of the Organize tab, and many of the features on the Form tab all the time and love how intuitive they all are. In my business, I found that I always needed to modify a PDF one way or another and Foxit PDF Editor was extremely easy for me to use and doesn't cost me anything on a recurring basis.

Pros

  • Flattens a document so text, pictures, signatures become part of the document
  • Allows me to fill and sign PDFs easily and quickly
  • It allows me multiple ways to insert, extract, and delete pages easily

Cons

  • It would be nice if the text formatting option came up immediately when I click on the Typewriter button
  • When a previous computer died, I did not have the installer to reinstall my previous PDF editor software and being a power user I wanted to find something that would meet all my needs for a long time. Foxit PDF Editor surpassed all my needs and did so at half the cost of its closest competitor.
  • For a few months after my computer died and I lost my former PDF editor, I was paying a 3rd party $150/month, on average to edit PDFs for me. That stopped immediately with my purchase of Foxit PDF Editor.
  • Because Foxit PDF Editor works the way my mind works, I find that I can complete most tasks in about a third the time that it took with my previous PDF editor.
Foxit PDF Editor works the way my brain works, so everything is where I expect it intuitively and that makes me hugely efficient. I love how all of the various features are laid out logically in tabs such as Fill & Sign, Organize, Form, etc. with the tools I expect to find where I expect to find them.
Foxit PDF Editor had the most tools that I frequently use and it had them right where I expected them. All of the others that I demoed either lacked tools I use often or were not nearly as intuitive to use.

Do you think Foxit PDF Editor delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Foxit PDF Editor's feature set?

Yes

Did Foxit PDF Editor live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Foxit PDF Editor go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Foxit PDF Editor again?

Yes

It allows me to easily create fillable forms from a document and then gives me a plethora of tools to edit the form to be exactly as I need/want it. In my opinion, it is by far the easiest tool I have used to do this. The only negative I have is that sometimes the number of features and tools can be a little daunting since there are so many.

Using Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom)

3 - MSP, MSSP, back office, marketing
1 - A general knowledge of the application and experience using it
  • Signing documents
  • Editing documents
  • Modifying documents
  • We have used the Satitize Document tool to asily remove potentially sensitive information from documents
  • Assembling training manuals
  • Converting scanned documents to editable PDFs
I do not foresee not using Foxit PDF Editor and since it was a one-time permanent purchase, there is no need to renew a subscription for it.

Evaluating Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) and Competitors

Yes - It replaced an old version of Adobe Acrobat Pro that was on a computer that died and I did not have the media to reinstall it on my new computer. And, that created the opportunity to explore what else was available that might suit how I think and work better.
  • Ease of Use
  • Other
The intuitive tool groupings and locations and the fact that Foxit PDF Editor had every tool I needed was the most important factor in my decision.
I would change nothing—My selection process yielded the best PDF Editing software for my usage.

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