[Windows] Free Expert PDF 8 Professional (fully featured PDF editor)!
February 20, 2013 68
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UPDATE: This promotion has now ended. Sorry to all those that missed it!
Need a good PDF editor without paying an arm an leg? Then you have come to the right place because in this post we describe how you get can Expert PDF 8 Professional ($95 value) for free!
Software Description
The following is the description of Expert PDF 8 Professional, as per the developer:
Quick Summary
Create PDF
Expert PDF Profesional Edition is the complete PDF creator and PDF writer tool. It lets you create PDF files from any document that you are working on so that you can save and send your work securely.Edit PDF and modify
Once created you can view and edit PDF documents as easily as Word documents using the Expert PDF Editor. You can modify text, images, layout or add comments quickly and easily. Expert PDF can also be used as a default viewer for all your PDF documents.Convert PDF to Word
If you receive a PDF that you want to change, Expert PDF Profesional Edition enables you to convert PDF to Word using the PDF converter. Simply make the changes and save it back into PDF before saving or sending the PDF file.Features
PDF to Word conversion – One click conversion of any PDF into a document that can be read and modified in Microsoft Word. Expert PDF also places a handy link on your desktop to provide easy access to this useful program.
Easy conversion of a PDF file into a PDF Form, which can then be filled in on screen with only a standard PDF Reader!
Create new and fully customised PDF forms, and edit existing ones.
- Add and edit form controls such as Text zones, radio buttons, check boxes, drop-down lists and action buttons
- Edit text and object attributes: font, colour, line width, display options…
- Associate actions to objects within the PDF Forms: eg auto complete, opening web pages etc
OCR (Optical Character recognition) – Turn your PDF files into easily searchable documents!. OCR makes it possible to search for text within scanned images/documents, making your PDF documents more time efficient to work with.
PDF/A Support – Optimises long-term PDF file preservation, ensuring the files you create now, will continue to be relevant and usable in the future
Document Management – Expert PDF includes support for the Bates numbering system which is widely used in the legal, medical and business worlds.
Multiple document merge – Select several documents in various formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, URL, etc.) for conversion as a single PDF, or as separate PDF files.
Integrated toolbar – Expert PDF 8 Professional Edition is fully integrated into Word® and Excel® toolbars, making it easy to convert a document into PDF without switching programs
Image conversion – Documents can be converted into popular formats – JPG, GIF, TIF etc.
Hyperlink and URL management – Direct links within PDF documents to websites, and when you convert your document to a PDF, all hyperlinks are preserved.
Easy Emailing – Convert a file to PDF and email it to a friend or colleague in just two clicks
Text editing features – Cut, copy, paste, resize text and visuals within your PDF
Graphic editing tools – Add images, geometric shapes, Bezier curves, and more to a PDF file.
Annotation tools – Add notes, watermarks, comments and stamps to your PDF documents
Document protection – Secure and protect your PDF file (password encryption) with rights to print, edit and copy etc.
Compatibility – Compatible with Adobe® Acrobat® or Acrobat® Reader® (but not required), all Microsoft Office programs, as well as support for converting Javascript into PDFs.
Secure – Create password protected PDF files for restricted access. 256 bit encryption is also available for PDF files that require the highest security level.
dotTech Advice
Get this freebie while you can. It is a very good PDF editor (it is a real editor — you can edit content of PDFs with this program), converter (e.g. PDF to Word), and creator (e.g. PDF printer).
Freebie Details
Expert PDF 8 Professional is being given away for free by Avanquest. These are no details how long this freebie will be available so grab it while you can; if history is any indicator, as soon as an Avanquest freebie is posted on dotTech it is reposted all over the web and Avanquest shuts down the freebie for those that haven’t already gotten it.
To get Expert PDF 8 Professional for free, do the following:
Version being given out for free: v8.0.350
Free updates: Unknown
Free support: Unknown
Supported OS: Windows 2000 and higher
UPDATE: For some odd reason, some Windows XP users are unable to install this program properly while others are installing it just fine. There are no issues with Vista, Win7, and Win8 users.
Download size: 48.1 MB
Giveaway time-frame: Unknown — it can be closed at anytime
Can be installed/reinstalled at later date: Unknown
- Visit the
promotion page, fill out the form, and hit the submit button:
If you do it successfully, you should see the following success page:
When you see the above page, you can close it.
- Now check the inbox of the email address you entered. Look for an email from “kontakt@avanquest.de” with subject of “Ihre PDF Experte 8 Ultimate Seriennummer: E-Mail-Bestätigung”. (If you cannot find the email, look in your spam/junk box. Gmail sent it to spam for me.) In the email there is a link you click to click/follow:
- Once you click the link, you will be taken to a page that gives you a serial key; copy the key:
- Download and install Expert PDF 8 Professional. The installer and program are in English.
- Once installed, run the program, go to ‘Help’ -> ‘Register Full Version’.
- Paste the serial key you copied earlier into field that pops up and click ‘Activate’:
- If you get the following success message, then you are done:
You can confirm successful registration by going to ‘Help’ and a) making sure ‘Register Full Version’ is no longer there and b) clicking ‘About’ shows version number and serial key:
Grats, you are now the owner of Expert PDF 8 Professional. Without paying a cent.
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Thanks!!
Worked Fine. Install & activation was a breeze.
I decided to get a 2nd key for my desktop at home I’m traveling. Used a different name & email address. The 2nd key is exactly the same as the 1st?
Hummmmm?
Thanks Ashraf
Dave
Invalid serial number error. Can’t use.
Worked perfectly for me, using Windows 7, 64 bit. “About” shows me as using version 8.0.350 with the serial number.
[@Sammo] Check your copy/ paste for leading or following blank spaces.
Hi Ashraf,
Installed & activated without any problem.
Thank You for the info!
[@Mrlasky]
I followed all the instruction to the letter. I tried copy/past of the serial number and manually inserting it. No joy. I uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled and still no joy.
Thank you !!
Merci !!!
Downloaded and installed (Win7 64-bit), activated and used it. Great program! Thank you!
Installed without a hitch. Playing around with it right now.
Thanks Boss-Man!
It does not suport XP or earlier.
On the product webpage says:
“Windows Vista 32-bit,Windows Vista 64-bit,Windows 7,Windows 7 64-bit,Windows 7 32-bit,Windows 8 32-bit,Windows 8 64-bit”.
I never could install this software (Version 5, or 6, or 7…)
I have XP Pro 32 bits.
@Everyone: Welcome!
[@Dave] Probably a generic key for all, then
[@Sammo] If you can show a screenshot of the error you are getting, we may be able to help better
[@Doru] http://www.visagesoft.com/products/expertpdf/requirements.php states: “Windows® 2000,XP,2003, Vista, Windows 7 (64-bit editions supported)”. Have you tried installing this version on XP?
The installation and activation worked great for me. (Windows 8) This certainly appears to be the type of PDF editor that doesn’t exist as open source or freeware. Thanks for the tip!
The same version and serial number were given out during a giveaway in early December 2012 (don’t remember the source), so it is indeed a generic key. Nice software, works fine on Windows 7, 64-bit system. Thanks, Ashraf.
It installed on my XP Pro without a problem. Thanks for the tip!
[@Ashraf] [@Ashraf]
See uploaded file:
http://dottech.org/?attachment_id=97924
[@kevbo] “Boss-Man” – Ashraf, you got a new designation, LMFAO!
i am gonna install it in my xppro and 7pro64 using two different email names/addresses. let’s see what happens!
UPDATE: kewl, it has replaced version 6 (obtained by dottech tips before) in xppro successfully!!! thanks!
Everything was smooth and simple. Got the serial number, downloaded, installed (it saw I had version 7 and asked if it should update), registered, ran it. So much easier than the early days of installing the English trial version, copying out the help files, installing the German version with giveaway license code, and copying the English help files in where they belong….
My favorite program for reading, creating and manipulating the contents of PDF files. Thanks muchly, Ashraf and Avanquest!
[@Ashraf]
When the first version was locking up, …
I used your link to a Win XP compatible version:
http://www.visagesoft.com/products/expertpdf/requirements.php states: “Windows® 2000,XP,2003, Vista, Windows 7 (64-bit editions supported)”. Have you tried installing this version on XP?
I uninstalled the version I first downloaded.
I then installed the above referenced version.
It locks up the same as the first. Task Manager can kill it.
Also, this second version will not accept the license I got for the first version downloaded.
I’m running on Win XP Pro SP3, fully patched.
Am I “stuck like chuck,” or is there something else to try???
[@Sammo] What OS are you trying to install this on? Are you downloading from the link I provided above?
[@Bub] Welcome!
[@eric506] Welcome!
[@Mark] Welcome!
[@mukhi] Welcome!
[@Mr.Dave] Welcome!
[@M Carr] The serial key won’t work with the download directly from VisageSoft, so there is no point in download from there — you need to download from the link I provide in the article. I’m not sure why some XP users are having trouble installing this while others can install this just fine.
Dis everything and no email arrived for confirmation although the address is correct. Any ideas?
If the key is generic perhaps someone would send it to me?
[@Ashraf]
I’m running XP SP3 32 and downloaded from your link.
[@Trevor] Sorry, that is against dotTech policies. The key may be generic but the very little we can do for the freebie is do as the developer asks, i.e. submit the form. Have you checked junk? Tried another email? My email came instantly.
[@Sammo] That would be why. For some reason some XP users are installing this fine but others are not.
[@Ashraf] Ok, I do understand. I will try another email address but the first one was good anyway. Thanks!