TurboPDF 4 Annual

PDF Collaborate, Annotate, and Share!

TurboPDF is a feature rich PDF solution which can be used to produce professional looking PDF documents quickly, affordably, and securely. It everything you need to create, collaborate, edit, and secure PDF documents at an affordable price.

Key Features and Benefits

• PDF Editing – Change text; add headers, footers, page numbers, images and video; add and delete pages; design forms; and more.

• Scan and OCR - OCR support allows users to convert scanned or image-based content into selectable and searchable text.

• Collaborate and Share – Markup and add comments to PDF documents for easy workgroup collaboration

• Convert and Export - Users can export PDF to Microsoft Office®, text, RTF, HTML, and popular image formats.

• Protect and Sign - Comprehensive security features can safeguard documents through the use of password encryption, certificate encryption, and digital signatures.

What’s New?

TurboPDF v4 is a major version which focuses on “Connected PDF” – the ability to manage, track, collaborate on and secure your documents through the Cloud. TurboPDF also has added a series of new capabilities, Integration with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Reflow editing mode, Search and replace, Layer editing, and Microsoft Windows Information Protection (WIP) Support. It has also enhanced the user experience for the existing features, such as Advanced Search, Comment Management, Simplified workflow for iManage integration, as well as some bug fixes. Click the “New Features” tab for more details.

Why you need TurboPDF?

PDF has become the overwhelming file format of choice because it is a robust and open standard for document display and it works with just about any application, hardware device, and operating system. However, you no longer need to pay hundreds of dollars on Adobe Acrobat to create, edit, collaborate, and secure PDF documents. TurboPDF offers all the features you need (and more) at an affordable price. Its ISO 32000-1 / PDF 1.7 standard compliant and works with all your existing PDF documents and forms so migrating over is easy and it will cost far less than the list price to upgrade to the next version for Adobe Acrobat.

TurboPDF is perfect for:

• Producing and signing documents

• Implementing workgroup collaboration

• Designing forms

• Producing marketing collateral

• Securing confidential information

• Archiving company documents

PDF Create and Convert

TurboPDF has what you need to create professional looking PDF documents and forms for tasks such as document sharing, implementing workgroup collaboration, designing company forms, producing company collateral, finalizing agreements, applying digital signatures, converting hardcopy documents to softcopy, and document archiving.

• Create industry standard PDF files from virtually all PC applications, popular image formats, and the clipboard

• NEW Create cPDF files making managing documents easier than ever. See New Features section for more about Connected PDFs

• Create ISO standard PDF/A files, and embed fonts

• PDF A, E, and X validation

• Create PDF from multiple files and file types, scanner, blank page

• One-Step PDF Creation from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• NEW Convert webpages to PDF from IE or Chrome

• Convert PDF to Microsoft® Office, RTF, HTML, text, and image formats

• Provides PDF creation by converting emails to PDF directly from the Microsoft® Outlook® application

• Evernote integration-attach a PDF to a note

• View, print, create, edit, and search for text in PDF portfolios

PDF Editing Features

Once documents have been converted to PDF, it is easier to perform edits and modifications in PDF instead of converting them back and forth between different file formats. TuboPDF’s editing capabilities provide features similar to that of word processing software.

• Paragraph edit with automatic reflow and reformat

• Add, edit, delete and manage document hyperlinks and bookmarks, custom actions for bookmarks and hyperlinks, such as opening a file, playing a sound, going to a web page, etc.

• Add, edit, delete and manage image and multimedia annotations

• Add, edit, delete and manage header and footer, background, watermark

• Move, resize, rotate, cut, copy and paste graphic and image objects

• Manage pages in a document (reorder, new, insert, extract, crop, rotate and delete pages)

• Reorder pages from dropping and dragging thumbnail in page thumbnail panel

• PDF optimizer

Scan and OCR

A popular workflow is to create PDF from a scanned document, either for an electronic archive or to modify the document when you only have the hardcopy.

• Create scanned/image-based PDFs to editable files

• OCR text recognition to create searchable and selectable documents

• After OCR, edit text from scanned documents – especially valuable when you only have the hardcopy!

• Find and correct incorrect OCR result

• Insert scanned documents directly into an existing PDF document

PDF Viewing Features

TurboPDF is built upon the industry’s fastest and most accurate (high fidelity) PDF rendering engine, providing users with the best PDF viewing and printing experience.

• Customizable Toolbar - Allows users to create new tabs or customize current tabs

• Bundled PDF IFilter for desktop systems, allowing PDF documents to be searched with Windows search technologies

• Capable of viewing all PDF types!

• SharePoint PDF file checkout and check-in

• Validate digital signature

• Compare documents

• Read out loud

PDF Comment Features

Use TurboPDF’s powerful annotation and sharing tools, to easily collaborate with others and provide feedback (through comments/annotations) on PDF documents, to generation superior PDF documents and forms.

• Add, manage, view and navigate document comments

• Familiar comment, markup tools (notes, text boxes, callouts, highlight, underline, strikeout, squiggly, cross-out, typewriter, Stamps, etc. ) and drawing tools (comment tools including lines, rectangles, pencil, oval, polygon, cloudy, arrow)

• Measuring tool for distance, perimeter and area measuring

• Attach a file as a comment

• Organize and manage a library of stamps

• Import/Export comments data and summarize comments

Note to TurboCAD Owners: You will find that TurboPDF’s collaboration and sharing features help bridge the gap between people using TurboCAD in the office and those people working on the TurboCAD design in the field. Document authors can share a document with others, who are able to add their own comments to the document, and also view and respond to each other’s comments.

PDF Forms Features

PDF forms are very powerful and widely used. TurboPDF's form creation tools help automate the process by identifying and creating form fields for you. Once complete, TurboPDF provide the ability to fill both standard (acroforms) and XFA forms and to save form data.

• Form designer assistant

• Form field recognition

• Fill in and save forms, including XFA form

• Import/Export form data, reset form fields

• JavaScript support

• Draw and edit form controls (text fields, buttons, drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons and digital signature fields)

• Edit static XFA form

• Digitally sign acro forms and XFA forms

• Enables 2D barcode generation from Ultraforms® enabled fillable PDF forms

PDF Security Features

Many times users need to protect PDF documents. TurboPDF provides PDF protection capabilities in a single, powerful solution. In addition, TurboPDF provides multiple compelling options to sign and then protect those signed PDF documents.

• Removes undesired information from your document before publishing, like metadata, comments, hidden data from previous saves, hidden layers, overlapping objects, and more

• Add, edit, delete and manage passwords secure encryption and permission controls to PDF files

• PDF Sign - Add, edit, delete and manage an image of your signatures to PDF files

• Send, sign and save PDF documents using DocuSign, the industry's most widely used eSignature solution

• Add, edit, delete and manage security policies

• Add, edit, delete and manage digital signatures to PDF files

• Add, edit, delete and manage certification secure encryption and permission controls to PDF file

More Important Key Features: 

• Accessibility Features - Evaluates the accessibility of PDFs and fixes accessibility issues in PDFs to make it easier for users with disabilities to use PDFs, with or without screen readers or other assistive software/hardware. 

• Provides powerful tools and panels to tag PDFs, set alternate text, touch up reading order, and more to make PDFs accessible. 

• Supports accessible reading and navigation by setting accessibility preferences that control the document display and reading order, using keyboard shortcuts, and reading PDFs in reflow view. 

• Exports PDF to accessible text that can be converted to a form that vision-impaired users can use. 

• Search and replace - Allows users to find and replace text in a PDF document, a useful time-saving feature for document workers.

Operating Systems

Windows 10, Windows 8 (Full Version), or Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit)
Microsoft Office® 2007 or later version (required for some PDF creation features)
Verified as Citrix Ready® with Citrix XenApp® 6

Recommended Hardware for Better Performance
1.3 GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM (Recommended: 1 GB RAM or greater)
2 GB of available hard drive space
1024*768 screen resolution