PDF Composer

Text documents are found under different file formats, each with its own special characteristics. However, one of the most commonly used for its security features is PDF. Management requires specialized applications, even for viewing. As such, PDF Composer gives you the possibility to perform several operations like composing, splitting, or merging.

The application manages to make a powerful impression right from the start, at least when it comes to visuals. Everything is wrapped around a custom-made interface, with neat animations for every action, or simply when hovering your cursor over buttons or other elements you can interact with.

Once you reach the main menu, there’s no real need to open up a help manual, nor is there one, because most functions are self-explanatory, and even beginners get the hang of it from the first few seconds of use.

All options are enlisted in the main menu, and each brings up a new window with corresponding options. As such, management options for PDF files are the composer, splitter, merger, extractor, rearranger, and converter. What’s more, hovering the mouse over an option provides related details.

Needless to say that you mostly get to work with PDF files, but enhanced support makes it possible to take advantage of formats like TIF, JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, PSD, and TGA, which you can either load from your computer, or grab from a connected scanner.

The result of most functions is delivered in the source directory, but this can easily be changed from the dedicated field. Some components like the splitter or extractor also let you create individual subfolders for every element you want to export.

Working with PDF files is an easy thing, at least when you only have to view and analyze content. When it comes to management, PDF Composer does a pretty good job, but feels incomplete. There’s no option related to security of the document, nor any option to handle text, or view documents for that matter.