The brand 'Adobe' is synonymous with PDF and Adobe Reader is the most popular tool for viewing PDF files. Thus, it's no surprise that Adobe Acrobat Professional came first in the category of best performance PDF converter. It won not only because of the multitude of features that it offers users, but also in its speed and precision at converting office documents, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, to PDF files.
This edition is the complete package not only can you create PDF files but can also edit them with advanced editing tools to touch up text, annotate, comment, append, add watermarks and stamps, embed fonts and manage the color format of the file.

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Now Acrobat comes bundled with Adobe'Distiller, a useful utility where you can create PDF files from scratch, and whilst editing your file in Distiller, you can switch to the 'Preview' tab to check what the final PDF file will look like. Adobe also comes with security features, where you can digitally sign your files, password protect and encrypt them. Appending, prepending, extracting pages, combining multiple files into one, and saving PDF files to Word documents are also supported. FOR: Consistent performance and wide range of features.

AGAINST: Physical memory and CPU hog