I seem to have successfully installed the program, using the license key provided, however it reports a necessity to reboot prior to using, which is not convenient right at this minute. So, I was not prepared to say whether the program actually came up up at that point, and what it can or cannot do or how well, intrinsically or compared to other programs in this category. As to having gotten even this far, either some issues got corrected along the way, or I chalk it up to a YMMV. (YMMV, as in: I have several computers of the same general design from the same manufacturer, separated by a period of a few model years. Some of them can boot from a USB stick — with proper BIOS settings set, of course — yet some of them can not. Some of them will only see a connected external hard drive if it is turned on just prior to computer bootup; others have no such limitation. Go figure. It’s not worth my time or effort to try and determine WHY.)
Peter Blaise wrote:
“no one seems to say what they got, if and when they got it working, if anyone did, nope, not yet, no one has offered a hands-on exploration of discovering the comparative features and benefits of Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor.”
After Peter’s addendum of 9/7, I am neither encouraged nor optimistic on that score. Peter’s commentaries here are very much in the great tradition of past regular contributor Giovanni, and a select few others — which is saying quite a lot. As to a certain snide and verbose detractor, I know of no such track record to fall back on.
I’m no great fan of PDF in general, either, or trying to work with it . . . and Peter has provided some possible explanations as to why. And Yes, Opera has solved some annoying problems that the other browsers haven’t. (In seeing and being able to print non-truncated pages too.)
[Just a btw, but I tripped over a page redirect from Soft Expansion, offering an upgrade to a version that includes OCR, for 5 Euros. If I was already sold on their product, that offer would have been of interest.]
Meanwhile, within this category, I guess I am left with exploring PDF Element 6, for which I had previously purchased a license, although at this point it is one version behind being current. And, after the conflicting testimony here, I am left wondering whether or not it is indeed possible to get the older FREE Adobe editor functional, and just what hoops I’d still need to jump through in order to accomplish that ?