Where to buy Adobe Acrobat XI Pro for cheap?

[G73S]

The price I found on Adobe's site is around $544 USD!

That's an insane price to pay for a program just to edit PDFs

I haven't found any other alternative online that edits PDFs as good as Adobe Acrobat Pro does

Is there any reputable place where I can buy a license for cheap?

 

[radtechtips]

You're lucky I saw post #6 in this thread that your post was "just a joke." -Admin DrPizza

 

[Steltek]

The price I found on Adobe's site is around $544 USD!

That's an insane price to pay for a program just to edit PDFs

I haven't found any other alternative online that edits PDFs as good as Adobe Acrobat Pro does

Is there any reputable place where I can buy a license for cheap?

No, unfortunately there isn't. If you don't own a prior version which you can upgrade, you are pretty much stuck paying full price. The cheapest I've seen it recently was $420 at Newegg for the full version download or $430 for the boxed version. If you are a student, you can pick up the Student and Teacher version which is much cheaper. However, from what I understand Adobe is really strict about checking for academic eligibility so don't buy that if you don't actually qualify.

What specific types of PDF editing are you needing to do? The most recent version of Nitro Pro contains a significant amount of the functionality of Acrobat. If you haven't tried it recently, give the free trial a shot and you might be surprised. I have both, and use Nitro about as often as Acrobat Pro.

FWIW, if you use the LiveCycle designer for forms, be aware it isn't included with Acrobat Pro XI -- Adobe is now selling it as a separate paid application. Last I heard the only way you can get Designer with Acrobat Pro XI is to upgrade Acrobat Pro X to XI and then they give it to you as a free upgrade.

 

[smakme7757]

Foxit Phantom PDF is a good alternative. That's what I use. It's also a hell of a lot cheaper than Adobe.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Security/

 

[G73S]

I just want to edit basic stuff like Images in a PDF, be able to fill forms when the PDF itself is locked or have the form fields but are not editable, things like this

That Phantom looks interesting, but still not cheap

PS: I don't do piratebay or any cracks for the person above who suggested pirate bay

 

[radtechtips]

PS: I don't do piratebay or any cracks for the person above who suggested pirate bay

Yea it was a joke.

 

[Mushkins]

Simple, don't buy the "Pro" version. Unless you're working on PDFs all day at a graphic design or marketing firm, you do *NOT* need the Pro version of Acrobat.

The standard version is usually between $250 and $350 a copy, but yeah, its expensive. It's not "just for editing pdfs," it's still a full-fledged piece of design software. Unfortunately PDF is both a widely used and highly proprietary format for simple documents because of the added security of it not easily being edited like a word doc. Honestly, most of my users that "absolutely needed to have it" have no idea how to use it beyond making simple text-editor level edits to PDFs.

Another solution is Office 2013, where you can save a .doc as a PDF. That way you can develop new documents in word and make any edits, then save to PDF as needed. Doesn't help if you need to edit an existing PDF though.

 

[Zorba]

Buy PDF-xchange. I use acrobat pro at work and PDF-xchange at home, would kill to be able to use it at work. The "pdf-tools" version is what I use, only $50. http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

BTW: their free viewer does just about everything acrobat standard will do, including OCR, adding text, drawings, etc. The big thing the viewer doesn't allow is adding/removing pages. It also let's you fill in and save locked forms.

 

[Zorba]

Simple, don't buy the "Pro" version. Unless you're working on PDFs all day at a graphic design or marketing firm, you do *NOT* need the Pro version of Acrobat.

The standard version is usually between $250 and $350 a copy, but yeah, its expensive. It's not "just for editing pdfs," it's still a full-fledged piece of design software. Unfortunately PDF is both a widely used and highly proprietary format for simple documents because of the added security of it not easily being edited like a word doc. Honestly, most of my users that "absolutely needed to have it" have no idea how to use it beyond making simple text-editor level edits to PDFs.

Another solution is Office 2013, where you can save a .doc as a PDF. That way you can develop new documents in word and make any edits, then save to PDF as needed. Doesn't help if you need to edit an existing PDF though.

There are lots of good free PDF printers out there, like cutepdf, no need to use office 2013.

 

[stlcardinals]

Another solution is Office 2013, where you can save a .doc as a PDF. That way you can develop new documents in word and make any edits, then save to PDF as needed. Doesn't help if you need to edit an existing PDF though.

You actually can edit pdf files with Word 2013, the catch is that it cannot be a pdf that was made with a scanner, i.e. 1 big image. Go ahead and try opening a pdf in Word 2013.