Qoppa PDF Studio
Create, Convert, Review and Edit PDF Documents on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
Features
- Edit PDF
- Sign PDF files
- Scan to PDF
- PDF Redaction
- Convert PDF to Word document
- Create PDF files
- Measurement-Tools
- Fill PDF Forms
- OCR
- Dark Mode
- Text to Speech
- Ad-free
- Spell Checking
- PDF annotation
- Batch processing
- Works Offline
- Built-in viewer
- Full-Text Search
- No Subscription
- Bates numbering
- Lightweight
- Combine PDF
- Integrated Search
- PDF OCR
- Themes
- Side-by-Side Comparison
- File Comparison
- Support for Javascript
Qoppa PDF Studio News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
POX added Qoppa PDF Studio as alternative to Jumpdf- pixelpilot007 reviewed Qoppa PDF Studio
Awesome alternative to Adobe Reader
- tuva-hayabi reviewed Qoppa PDF Studio
The free version is only a reader, and that’s okay. But I can’t find the Standard version on their website (as of August 2024), which is announced here on AlternativeTo, only the Pro version, which costs 179 $ for a single license (1 User on 2 Computers), which is quite expensive, compared to competitor products.
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The 2024 version of PDF Studio Pro is great! I have used it on some very large documents (over a gigabyte) and it handles even the largest with ease. These are the features I have used: Pencil feature - This works well on my surface pro. I can use the pen to draw and write comments on documents, and the marker to highlight text. Page resize - I have used this to resize from A4 to letter. As well as resizing the page, you can also scale the contents which is very handy! Redacting - I have used...
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Qoppa PDF Studio information
What is Qoppa PDF Studio?
Create, Convert, Review and Edit PDF Documents on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
PDF Studio is an all-in-one, easy to use PDF editor that provides all PDF features needed at a fraction of the cost of 
Adobe Acrobat Reader and other PDF editors. PDF Studio maintains full compatibility with the PDF Standard.
PDF Studio is available in 3 versions: Viewer, Standard and Pro.
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PDF Studio Viewer
Display PDFs with high fidelity Render all interactive features: Annotations & Form Fields Digital Signatures & Layers Advanced User Interface: Thumbnails & Comments Panes Loupe, Pan & Zoom Rulers & Grids Advanced Print & Search Options Integration with Docusign Integration with Document Storage: Dropbox, Drive, Google Drive
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PDF Studio Standard
All Features in Viewer Plus…
Create PDFs Convert to/from PDFs Scan-To-PDF Annotate and Markup PDFs Fast Sign PDFs Fill In & Save PDF Forms Secure Documents (Passwords) Append / Delete Pages Apply Watermarks, Headers, Footers Create Bookmarks / Table of Contents Loupe, Pan & Zoom, Rulers, etc… Supports the new PDF 2.0 standards Accessibility Color Options Text to Speech (Read Out Loud) Content Explorer Auto Detect Link Convert PowerPoint to PDF
- PDF Studio Pro
All Features in Standard, Plus…
Interactive Form Designer OCR (Text Recognition) Content Editing Permanent Redaction Compare PDFs (Visual & Side by Side Comparison) Optimize PDFs Digitally Sign PDFs Advanced PDF Splitting & Merging Batch Process Multiple PDFs Precision Measuring Tools Preflight Tools Imposition Tag PDFs for Accessibility (PDF/UA) PDF/A Validation / Conversion Advanced Imposition & Printer Marks
Operating Systems Available on: Windows 11, 10, 8.. Monterey, Big Sur, 10.15 Catalina.. Mint, Ubuntu, Elementary OS.. *See full list on website.
Comments and Reviews
I’ve been using PDF Studio since version 6.62. Back then, years ago, it was IMHO the best of the many PDF editors on the market (including Acrobat-by a mile!), although it did have a few head- scratching shortcomings, including the absence of an undo function (!?) and occasional crashes when working with multiple PDF files simultaneously. These and other glitches seem to have been fully corrected, however, by a series of updates through version 12 and, most recently, to PDF Studio 2018. In addition, new functionalities and design improvements, including a totally revised navigation ribbon, have made working with the software faster and more intuitive. My main use of PDF Studio over the years has been in studying, annotating and playing classical piano music from pdf keyboard manuscripts. The software lets me:
• remove and modify manuscripts’ piano fingerings to suit my hand size and interpretation of the music,
• highlight manuscript areas that I need to focus on by overlaying them with highly transparent rectangles of pale color,
• attach audio files to the pdf manuscripts of the music I am playing so I can hear how various performers interpret the music while I am studying and playing it,
• insert bookmarks into the manuscripts to enable navigation through compositions’ sections,
• add notes directly on pdf manuscripts about my interpretation and performance of the music,
• use PDF Studio’s many other powerful features to enhance my piano studies and playing.
For years I’ve been content to use my old version 6.62, which still remains among the best PDF editors available. But at this point it’s clear to me that PDF Studio 2018 is far and away the most flexible and powerful tool for building highly creative PDF editing applications that can enhance whatever kinds of computer work one undertakes.
I am searching for a good PDF editor on my Mint PC. I found this, Qoppa PDF Studio. I am surprised with the functionality this software offers. Great tool, must buy!
The huge opaque water marks diagonally across each page makes it quite unusable even for private use. So you have to buy one.
Info for linux users only:
I have been hunting around for a free linux pdf editor that can produce 'permanent' bookmarks, comments and annotations and I am shocked that its so difficult to find one. In windows there are so many (pdf xchange viewer).
jpdfbookmarks can add bookmarks but not anything else.
okular, one of the best readers cannot do permanent annotations, bookmarks, etc. The ones it adds are stored in its settings. so when we send the file to someone, they won't get it.
If someone finally finds one, please please tell me. :-).............
I think it's become even more difficult to find a good pdf editor for Linux, but it's still just as shocking that one doesn't seem to exist
Reply written Sep 30, 2021
About Editing PDF Files
Most times it's probably best to just recreate PDF files.
Because although it can be done, PDF is not a format that's meant to be editable in the first place. It's a "compiled" Document that contains binary blobs - aka content streams, which are (depending on the quality of the creatig software) highly optimized as they are - and editing them will make things rather messy in most cases. That's like editing compiled software.
More interesting would be document structure etc. To have Software which extracts everything from content, index, table of contents to the document metadata and exports it into different formats (like HTML, Markdown, Pandoc, etc.).
For PDF's with complex, required style you'd of course need an editor, draw onto the PDF ¹ (with i.e. Xournal++) - or convert it into an image and edit that. ²
As for PDF viewers: I use Evince since it offers great performance, can both annotate & highlight text, fill forms, etc. It's a good basic viewer.
¹ Warning: This doesn't remove anything! ² A vector image could preserve a lot of stuff - if you have software which honors all this stuff while converting it. And good vector editing software & skills…
Reply written Oct 2, 2023
I've been using MasterPDF Editor v4.3.89 (free version without watermarks) since years now. It works pretty decently on linux.
Reply written Oct 28, 2023
Awesome alternative to Adobe Reader
The free version is only a reader, and that’s okay. But I can’t find the Standard version on their website (as of August 2024), which is announced here on AlternativeTo, only the Pro version, which costs 179 $ for a single license (1 User on 2 Computers), which is quite expensive, compared to competitor products.
The 2024 version of PDF Studio Pro is great! I have used it on some very large documents (over a gigabyte) and it handles even the largest with ease. These are the features I have used: Pencil feature - This works well on my surface pro. I can use the pen to draw and write comments on documents, and the marker to highlight text. Page resize - I have used this to resize from A4 to letter. As well as resizing the page, you can also scale the contents which is very handy! Redacting - I have used the redaction feature to cut sensitive information from documents. I was able to mark the areas to be redacted and then apply them in one hit. Works great! The 2024 version of PDF Studio Pro is quick and responsive. I recommend it. https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/
Qoppa PDFStudio for Life.... So I was looking to use Javascript for Custom Calculations and Custom Actions on a Form Filled PDF.
This allows me to make fields disappear or fill with conditional answers when a tick box is selected or a different field has data entered into it (which is just for little tinkering projects I'm doing in my spare time)
So like everyone else in the world I went to Adobe to get a copy of the current version only to find that Adobe no longer support any software that doesn't come with a monthly subscription fee.
To make matters worse, the monthly subscription fee equals $347.82 per year for their PRO version (which is the only version that can do Javascript Custom Calculations and Actions).
So I went searching the internet to find another PDF editor that can do this and after weeks of Free trials and multiple heartbreaks, I discovered Qoppa PDF Studio.
Not only does it have everything built-in for Javascript Custom Calculations, Custom Actions and all the other usual features we've all come to expect from any good PDF editor but it comes with a ONE OFF price that doesn't break my bank account.
Qoppa, You are the Best! 10/10 Keep up the good work! https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/