TurboPDF v3

TurboPDF v3

TurboPDF v3

Fast, Affordable, and Secure PDF Solution for Less

TurboPDF is a feature rich PDF solution which can be used to produce professional looking PDF documents quickly, affordably, and securely. Create, view, and edit PDF documents, scan and OCR, mark up, convert and export to multiple formats, encrypt to secure, digitally sign and more.

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Overview

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 v3 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

TurboPDFv3 New Features

Summary

TurboPDF v3 is a major version which focuses on “connected PDF”. It also has added a series of new capabilities, such as Action Wizard, Chrome and IE plugin in browser, drop box integration, and has also enhanced the user experience for the existing features, as well as some bug fixes.

New 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.

  • PDF 2.0 Support - Allows users to view PDF documents that are compliant with parts of PDF 2.0 reference to keep up with the ISO development process.
  • Integration with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - Provides interfaces to allow users to use VBA scripts to have TurboPDF work with Microsoft Office, including PDF conversion from Excel, PDF form filling, OCR, and more.
  • Reflow editing mode- Offers reflow editing mode for users to edit document content in a continuous mode, like in a word processor.
  • Search and replace- Allows users to find and replace text in a PDF document, a useful time-saving feature for document workers.
  • Layer editing- Supports the ability to import, merge, flatten, reorder, and delete layers in PDF documents. (Business Edition)
    Supports the ability to reorder and delete layers in PDF documents. (Standard Edition).
  • Microsoft Windows Information Protection (WIP) Support - Enables users to add protection to PDFs with WIP system that helps to protect against accidental data leak on enterprise-owned devices and personal devices.
  • FIPS Compliance - Provides a FIPS mode to make data protection compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
  • Find Command - Finds a command by typing the command name and bring features to your fingertips with ease.
  • Adds the “Destination” panel to allow users to create and manage named destinations in a PDF which can be used to link to from different positions in a PDF.
  • Allows users to select an area in PDF and export it to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and Rich Text formats.
  • Adds an approved trusted list of digital certificates for convenient signature validation.
  • Enables users to edit PDF with Type 3 font text with the Edit Text and the Edit Object tools.
  • Protects PDF files using the Microsoft PDF V2 IRM Specification.
  • Supports importing form data from a .csv file.
  • Supports exporting digital IDs to .fdf files.

Enhancements in TurboPDF v3

  • Improved installation and activation- Allows users to disable the PDF creator plugin in IE/Chrome/Firefox during installation, and activate TurboPDF with activation code via command line.
  • Advanced search
    Highlights all the text search results in PDF file.
    Searches for instances that match any of the keywords.
  • PDF portfolio enhancements
    Enables users to export all files in a PDF portfolio when combining files into a single PDF file.
    Protect PDF portfolios with passwords and certificates.
  • PDF creation enhancements
    Allows users to add Excel sheet names or PowerPoint slide titles as PDF bookmarks in the created PDF.
    Enables users to order files by bates numbering when combining multiple PDFs into a single PDF file.
  • Adds more options to control more features through GPO templates, including the features of OpenText, NetDocuments, and iManage plugins.
  • Creates a PDF form from an existing file directly without “Run Form Field Recognition”, streamlining PDF form creation from existing files.
  • Adds options in the context menu to open the directory of the current PDF file and to copy the file path to the clipboard.
  • Provides an option to trust all root certificates in Windows Certificate Store to streamline signature validating.
  • Allows users to choose a page as a stamp when creating a custom stamp from a PDF with multiple pages.
  • Enhances RMS protection to make the RMS-protected files compliant with PDF 2.0.
  • Adds an option to send all open tabs as attachments by email when sharing PDFs.
  • Enables users to edit existing MST files with Customization Tool.
  • Supports text formatting in the popup box for note comments.
  • Exports highlighted text as a TXT file.
  • Exports tracker details to a PDF during shared review.

Additional Features and Enhancements

  • Integrates with OpenText eDOCS
    Integration with OpenText eDOCS allows users to open/check out PDF files from and save/check them into an OpenText eDOCS instance directly from TurboPDF.
  • Enhanced comment management
    Users can filter comments by the author and status, and check the total number of comments that are displayed in the Comment panel.
  • Simplified workflow for iManage integration
    Faster access to PDFs in iManage, such as providing an option to automatically connect to the previously-added server when TurboPDF is launched, simplifying the entire workflow.
  • More convenient and efficient Connected Review
    Redesigns the Connected Review workflow, aiming at improving user experience in document reviews.
  • More intuitive ConnectedPDF protection
    Provides an improved DRM protection workflow for better permission control and user experience.
  • Some other user-friendly enhancements.
  • Archive webpages and websites into PDF files within TurboPDF
    Convert a web page to PDF from File > Create > From Web Page, along with custom settings to choose conversion levels, keep links clickable, and more.
  • Organize Connected Review comments for efficient collaboration
    During a Connected Review, a list of all comment activities on the PDF document can be viewed at a glance and filtered (eg. by user) from a comment dashboard.
  • Provide options to convert files (including existing PDFs) to linearized PDF files that can be opened and viewed even before the whole file is downloaded.
  • Web browser PDF conversion plugin improvements
    The improved PDF conversion plugins to IE, Firefox and Chrome provide more advanced options to convert webpages to PDF, including settings for login, timeout, hyperlinks, and more.
  • Users can specify page ranges of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files or choose sheets in Excel to convert when combining multiple files into a PDF.
  • Provide preview capability in TurboPDF to non-PDF files on ECM and other file storages
    TurboPDF now enables users to open non-PDF files in SharePoint/NetDocuments/iManage WorkSite and network drives (Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox), by converting them to PDF.
  • Enhanced the NetDocuments plugin to have ndOffice integration, enables users to open and work on PDFs in NetDocuments within TurboPDF.
  • All published comments can be synchronized on both desktop and mobile devices during Connected Review, letting you never miss an important message.
  • Convert and combine .xps/ .dwg/ .dxf files to PDF directly via the right-click menu or within TurboPDF.
  • Enable users to edit properties of PDF portfolios.
  • Split PDF by blank pages.

Key Features

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 files

System Requirements

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

Reviews

Reviews

Excellent value and functionalities

Researched competitive products looking for functionality and value. Excellent product, thank you.
Genevieve B.

TURBO PDF

THE PROGRAM IS NO, 1
Don W.

TurboPDF

Great Program....... just need to add 3D PDF capability
Kevin W.

Solid PDF suite and easey to Install and Use

I needed a capable PDF suite and was glad to find TurboPDF v2 for sale for a great price from a software supplier I already know and own TurboCad with. To set it up as a goto printer was super easy as it asked me if I needed TurboPDF as a printer and it did all the installing on Win 10 for me. I would definitely highly recommend this TurboPDF. Thanks for solid honest software at a great price.
Neil S.