PDF ShapingUp

PDF files are nowadays used by lots and lots of people for storing and sharing documents. That's because the PDF format takes less hard disk space than DOC files and it can be easily opened using a simple application. But the problem with the PDF format is that it cannot be modified without specialized applications like Adobe Acrobat. Still, this program is not for everyone, being expensive, difficult to use and requiring a lot of system resources.

Most users would like a simple program for making small adjustments to PDF files. PDF ShapingUp is one of those programs. It's a simple Windows application which allows modifying any kind of PDF file and applying different adjustments to it. It supports any Windows version and virtually any kind of PDF file, no matter what application is used for creating it.

After running the program, the user will be presented with a simple Windows 7-like application, which allows adding more PDF files at the same time and applying different operations to them. As such, the user can change the fonts of a file, can resize it, rotate or crop a portion of a document page, he can annotate or compress the file, for making it easier to share online.

All these options are efficiently organized using a tabbed graphical interface. At the end of the editing operation, the user can save the new PDF file over the original one or as a copy. He can also export the file to various formats, like JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and so on, allowing anyone to view the document using a simple image viewer. Besides that, PDF files can be protected with two different kinds of passwords, for making it impossible to open or to copy and print the text included inside the document.