How to Use AcePDF

AcePDF is a one-stop PDF editor, converter, reader and organizer to solve all your problems. With it, you will be able to view PDF, edit PDF text, edit PDF images, convert PDF to Word/Excel/PPT/TXT/Image, create PDF, sign PDF, protect PDF, annotate PDF and more easily.

How to Activate the Program

Download the program and then install it following the instruction wizard to complete the installation. When it's done, you will see a shortcut on your desktop and double-click it to launch it. Trial users can evaluate the software and access all functions as described in later parts, but mind that there will be a watermark attached to your file.

If you have a licensed key, please forward it to "Activate" and you will then see the Activate window as illustrated below. You may copy the keycode and paste it to the field by pressing "Ctrl" and "V." Then click OK to unlock it.

Open PDF

There are multiple methods to open the PDF document. You can choose any way you prefer to add PDF to the program.

Click the Open PDF button from the main interface and choose the PDF you want to edit or convert.
Click File > Open to select the target PDF file and click Open to load it.
Click the "+" icon to add PDF or directly drag PDF file into the blank area to import it.
Right-click the target PDF document and select to open it with AcePDF.
If AcePDF has been set as the default PDF viewer on your computer, you can directly double-click any PDF to open it with AcePDF.
You can find all the documents you have opened recently by clicking Recent Documents and selecting one to open. This way is convenient if you haven't finished the editing later time.

View PDF

There are generally two read modes to display and view PDF before editing them.

Single Page View: Display one page in the document pane at once.

Two Page View: Display two pages side by side in the document pane at one time.

Besides, you can zoom in/out PDF to make it fit the whole document page, resize the page to fit entirely in the document pane, resize PDF to fit the height/width of the window. Rotate PDF clockwise 90 degrees every time till your PDF is properly shown.

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Edit PDF

This PDF editing tool lets you edit any content in PDF just like in Word. After the PDF has been opened, click Edit > Edit All to enter the PDF editing mode.

Edit Text

Under the editing mode, you will be able to modify the original text freely. If you want to add texts in a blank area, click Add Text and a textbox will appear for you to add texts. You can change the font, font size, and color of the text. Meanwhile, you can make it bold, italic, and underlined.

Edit Image

The images in your PDF will be framed. You can delete, cut, copy, and paste the image as you like. Advanced editing functions such as crop, flip, and rotate images are included as well.
Select Edit > Add Image. You can browse the images on your computer to add to your PDF document.

Edit Header & Footer

You can add header & footer for the PDF pages by clicking Edit Tool > Pages > Header & Footer, you can also add Page Number and Date with this function. There are font and appearance options included. At last, you can preview your settings in the dialog box.

Edit and Organize PDF Pages

You can manage PDF pages under the Pages tab.

Insert: Browse a PDF file from your computer, then set the place and location for the inserted PDF or insert a blank page.

Rotate: Customize the rotate-direction and specify the page range that you wish to rotate.

Delete: Set the page range that you want to delete to remove unneeded pages.

Replace: Set the page range of the current PDF file. Click the "Browse" button to select the replacement PDF, and set the page range of the replacement PDF.

Extract: Set the page range that you want to extract. After the extraction, there are two options, the extracted pages will be deleted directly, or the extracted pages will be generated as a new PDF.

Split: Enter the maximum number of pages or maximum file size in the dialog box to split the PDF file according to the number you enter. Or you can choose to split by top-level bookmarks.

Merge: All multiple PDF documents to combine them into one.

Annotate PDF

Under Comment, you can add highlight, underline, strikethrough, callout, stamp to the content, as well as a caret, replace and notes.

The drawing tool enables you to draw the following shapes to mark the texts. Such as Oval, Rectangle, Line, Arrow, Polygon, Connected Lines and Pencil, and an eraser tool is provided to erase the pencil markups.

Other Tools

1 Convert PDF

This PDF editor also serves as a decent PDF converter for you to convert any PDF to Word, Excel, PPT, TXT, HTML, JPEG and PNG. Select the responding output format from PDF to Office and click Convert from the pop-up window to change the PDF format to your preferred one.

2 Compress PDF

Click Tools > Compress PDF to load the PDF document and compress it to a smaller size instantly.

3OCR

AcePDF is equipped with the latest OCR technology, which allows you to convert scanned PDF to editable content or extract text from images on PDF. Currently, it supports text recognition in more than 20 languages.

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4Watermark

You can remove watermark from PDF or add a new text/image watermark. Appearance settings contain Rotation degree and Opacity. Besides, you can customize the position of the background. In Location. In Page Range options, you can enter the page range that the watermark that will be applied.

5Background

You can remove the background from PDF or add a background from the color or image. Appearance settings contain Rotation degrees and Opacity. Besides, you can customize the position of the background. In Page Range options, you can enter the page range that the background will be applied to.

Form

AcePDF allows you to create personalized forms to make your PDF more descriptive. Under the Form tab, you can add text forms and some buttons like Check Box, Radio Button, Combo Box, List Box, Push Button, etc. to create an interactive PDF form.

Sign PDF

With this PDF editor, you can quickly add digital and handwritten signature to your PDF.

Protect PDF

Select Protect > Set Password. There are two kinds of passwords to protect PDF. When you set the Open Password, anyone who tries to open the PDF file must type in the password that you specified. When you set a Permission Password, anyone who wants to change the restrictions must type the Permission Password.

Print PDF

After you finish all the editing work, you may need to print the final PDF. Click File > Print, please make sure your printer is correctly connected, enter the copies, page range and page size to print.

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