8 TOP tips & tricks for PDFelement | PDF editing on the iPad

pdf reading is one of the best note-taking styles for minimalist note-takers in today's video we'll be going through some reasons you want to use pdf element as your go-to pdf reader hey guys it's roxy back with paperlessx a channel that is all about digital productivity if you're new to our channel hello make sure you subscribe and turn on your notifications so you know each time we release a new video and if you're already subscribed fantastic human welcome back sometimes annotations are simply not enough pdf editing allows you to change the contents of a pdf you can remove or add text to your pdfs right on your ipad pdf element has a few text formatting options to change the following in your pdf you can change the font from a reasonable variety the application does not support custom fonts which might be limiting for some users it has quite some decent options to choose from you can format your text to make it bold or italic we hope to get an underlining option as well you can increase or decrease the font size of your text change its color and its text alignment you can also edit the images in your pdf tapping on an image gives you options to replace it with one from your photos you can also resize rotate or crop your images in pdf element extract saves the images to your photos library do you have some documents you want to protect or a brand you want to promote how about adding a watermark to your pdfs pdf element adds text or image watermarks to your documents you then get options to determine the size color opacity rotation and position of the watermark you can tile it with different concentrations ranging from one by one to ten by ten pdf element can also remove some watermarks depending on where they were created we had no trouble removing a watermark created in adobe acrobat reader but we couldn't remove the one created in microsoft word we'll look further into this to understand better what watermarks the application removes and what watermarks it doesn't remove pdf files are generally a huge documents that you sometimes need to make smaller and pdf element can help you with that it can help you decrease the sizes of your pdf you can name your optimized version choose a folder to save it to and decide the pdf quality you wish to produce from five levels for whichever quality you choose pdf element shows you by how much the pdf will be reduced and its final file size the application's lowest quality is actually very good the documents we optimized retained their resolution which was very impressive how much the application reduces a document will depend on each document the lowest reduction we've had so far was 10 and the highest has been 34 most pdf editors let you save your digital signatures for filling forms and signing documents we don't encourage saving signatures in applications in case your device falls in the wrong hands it's refreshing to find an application that shares our concerns pdf element has an option to add temporary signature one that works like signing physical papers the application does not save your signature when you sign forms it only uses it once and we feel safer using this option you can select multiple documents to compress them in pdf element not many productivity applications have that feature the application also unzips zipped files if that is something you do often you will find this useful you can also merge multiple documents the application lets you arrange the documents in the order you want them to appear in your final document then it takes you to the merged document once it finishes merging you're not limited to merging a few documents you can merge as many as you want at a time you can convert your pdfs to 11 different formats the application does a fantastic job converting to most of these formats except excel it really struggled to convert to excel accurately we wouldn't rely on it for that still it has plenty of formats to convert to which is awesome you can set a password for your documents in pdf element you can see your log documents on the home page the application does not support face or touch id so you can't rely on those to unlock your documents while it might feel like extra work it might actually be necessary precaution to protect important files should someone bypass your ipad password they'll need to know this password to access your document let us know how you feel about that another thing to note is that there is no way to recover this password if you forget it pdf element is available on ipad os or ios android mac os and windows for those in the apple ecosystem you can upload your documents to the pdf element icloud folder to access them on multiple devices you have control over documents you are syncing and those you keep locally on different devices as a general rule pdf editors on the ipad are expensive pdf element is the only pdf reader we have found so far with a one-time purchase option it comes with a subscription if you prefer that but you can also pay for the application once for the devices you want to use it on this can potentially save you a lot of money in the long run the application also has team and education packages which are worth looking into before we look into a few reasons you wouldn't want to use pdf element let's look at some minor perks that are worth mentioning the application supports ftp and sftp cloud storage you can also transfer your document between your computer and ipad via wi-fi and now for the few reasons pdf element might not be the application you want to use it is missing the following features syncing across devices you can't sync across your devices with windows and android pdf element does not backup your documents you can't interact with your scans in any way you can't highlight on them or search through them the application also doesn't convert your word or powerpoint documents to pdf for the desktop versions of pdf element ocr works so if you're going to be using it on multiple devices and you've purchased it for multiple devices you wouldn't have a problem with ocr pdf element is a minimalist pdf reader it's definitely worth looking into if you're considering a pdf editor for your workflow or you fold a picture of what you can do in the application you can check out our complete review of the application we will have a link to it in the description down below we hope you guys like this video give it a thumbs up if you did thank you fantastic human for watching see you in the next video

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Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 07 2022