PDFelement for Mac makes it easy and fast to edit PDFs

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Wondershare PDFelement PDF editor for Mac
PDFelement works wonders with PDFs.
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This post is presented by Wondershare, maker of PDFelement.

What happens when you’re about to send an important PDF, only to spot a typo? If it was a Word document, you could just open it up, zap the offending letters, save and send. But with a PDF, it’s not so easy — if you don’t have the right software.

That’s why an app like PDFelement for Mac is a potentially invaluable part of anyone’s digital document toolkit. With it, you can edit, add and delete text in a PDF as easily as you would a Word document. Here’s how it works.

How to edit PDF on Mac

Let's get this Mac PDF editing party started right with PDFelement 6.
Let’s get this Mac PDF editing party started right.
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First, you should download PDFelement 6 for Mac and install the software.

Next, open a PDF in PDFelement. Then click the Edit tab in the menu bar. Once you’re in edit mode, you can change the text pretty much as you would in a Word file.

Here's how to edit PDF text using PDFelement.
Here’s how to edit PDF text using PDFelement.
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Just select Add text, then click the region where you want new text to go. It’s also possible to remove, relocate or adjust the size, font and color of existing text in the PDF after simply selecting it.

Same goes for images. Via the Add image option, you can choose image files from your computer to insert into the PDF document. Or, select existing images to crop, relocate or remove them.

And here's how you add images to PDFs.
And here’s how you add images to PDFs.
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PDFelement’s markup tools are also super-handy. You find them under the Comment tab. There you can add sticky notes to the PDF for others to review, or highlight selected text in various colors.

You can also highlight text in PDF documents with PDFelement.
You can also highlight text in PDF documents with PDFelement.
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Tools for drawing, underscoring or adding shapes also can be found here. Other functions like blocking out sensitive lines of text, signing PDFs, or converting to alternative formats are also quickly available via the dropdown menu.

Advanced PDF editing tools in PDFelement 6 Pro

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PDFelement 6 for Mac (Standard version) is enough to help you edit PDFs smoothly. It offers all these tools for adding annotations or editing text, images, links, layout, pages, watermarks, headers, footers and more. Changes you make won’t mess up the original document formatting. And any content you add can be dialed in to match the original style.

But if you are looking for a more feature-rich PDF editor? PDFelement 6 (Profesional version) is your best choice. The specs below outline the differences when you pit PDFelement 6 Standard version versus Professional version:

PDFelement Standard — $59.95 one-time fee

  • Create PDF files
  • Edit PDF files
  • Convert PDF files
  • Make annotations and comments
  • Secure and sign PDF files
  • Add watermarks, backgrounds, headers and footers to PDFs

PDFelement Professional — $99.95 one-time fee

  • All PDFelement Standard features
  • Optical character recognition (OCR)
  • Automatic form recognition
  • Form data extraction
  • Bates numbering
  • Extraction
  • Batch processing of PDF files
  • Extended compatibility support for other file formats
  • Full size optimization

What’s more, PDFelement provides oceans of template resources for free. More than 1,000 PDF templates will simplify your workflow. The template store includes resume, invoice, tax form, calendar, greeting cards (Thanksgiving, Christmas) and other useful templates. And if you want one of them to be your personal template — editable, customizable and printable — you can.

Download: PDFelement 6 for Mac

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