What is PDFcommander™?

A suite of Windows® database applications developed to simplify the creation and management of Adobe® PDF files.

The main applications' splash screen on the right indicates the essence of PDFcommander™ - simplicity!

Simple to install.

Simple to use.

Simple to understand.

Simply the best value for money, (if the freeware version is insufficient for your needs).

However beneath all that ease and convenience lies a highly advanced and sophisticated Microsoft Windows® application.

Powered by Microsoft Visual Foxpro®, the world's fastest database engine, PDFcommander™ utilises state of the art Relational Database Management Systems technology to bring you unrivalled power and performance for this type of application...

...and it's equally suitable for both home user or corporate use!

Your feedback is important to us

PDFcommander™ is still in development, not yet available, but please contact us and we welcome any comments or suggestions you may have concerning our applications - alternatively this site or just subscribe to our mailing list.

This site is also under construction and will be changing frequently, (particularly the PDFcommander™ FAQ, tutorials and news sections).

Why choose PDFcommander™ in preference to other applications?

Whatever your level of computing knowledge, PDFcommander™'s enhancements and the simplicity of their application will save you time, money and effort when working with PDFs.

PDFcommander™'s wizards will take you through many of the procedures required to work with PDFs - from the simple selection of the PDF output folder to the merging of different non PDF file types to form a single PDF.

Tutorials are available to guide you through the learning of PDFcommander™ and context sensitive help is always available by pressing the F1 key.

What can PDFcommander™ do?

• Add Annotations to image files in a PDFcommander™ project
• Add individually coloured, plain, emboldened and/or italicised Bookmarks to PDF files
• Add Document Information to PDF files
• Add .txt files, (64Kb max), in a scrollable window to individual pages in PDF files
• Add borders in any width/colour to individual pages in PDF files
• Add notes as text in a scrollable window to individual pages in PDF files
• Add notes in any colour as text to individual pages in PDF files
• Add any colour as a background to any/all pages in PDF files
• Add image files as backgrounds to any/all pages in PDF files
• Add gradient fills as backgrounds to any/all pages in PDF files
• Add page numbering, pages total, author, time and datestamp to individual pages in PDF files
• Add PDFcommander™ tasks to Windows Scheduled Tasks
• Add any text as solid or outlined Watermarks in any colour to individual pages in PDF files
• Add text/graphics web or page links to individual pages in PDF files
• Add web links as bookmarks in PDF files
• Automatically archive PDF and other PDFcommander™ project files
• Automatically email PDF files after creation
• Automatically name PDF files
• Automatically resize and centre image files in pages in PDF files
• Automatically track web pages visited while PDFcommander is running
• Change the specification of a PDF file
• Convert image files into other file formats in a PDFcommander™ project
• Convert complete Web sites into PDFs
• Convert individual Web pages into PDFs
• Convert selected Web pages into PDFs
• Create a PDF from any PDFcommander™ project file
• Create PDFcommander™ project source file lists from your system
• Create PDFs from files in use by other Windows applications
• Crop any/all pages in PDF files
• Crop image files in pages in PDF files
• Crop PDFcommander™ project image files
• Delete pages from PDF files
• Email PDFs and other PDFcommander™ project files
• Encrypt PDFcommander™ project files
• Encrypt PDF files with owner passwords
• Encrypt PDF files with user passwords
• Extract data from web sites, PDF files and PDFcommander project files
• Extract images from web sites
• Extract images in differing file formats from PDF files
• Extract information from PDF files
• Extract text from PDF files
• Flip PDFcommander™ project image files
• Flop PDFcommander™ project image files
• Incrementally name PDF files
• Log PDFcommander™ project activity
• Merge PDFs or other PDFcommander™ project files into a single PDF
• Modify Document Information in PDFs
• Optimize PDFs for page at a time downloading from the Internet
• Overlay multiple images in PDF pages
• Password protect PDFcommander™ projects
• Preview any printable Windows file as a PDF
• Preview report output from Windows applications
• Remove Bookmarks from PDF files
• Remove Document Information from PDF files
• Remove notes from individual pages in PDF files
• Remove page numbering, pages total, author, time and datestamp from individual pages in PDF files
• Remove PDFcommander™ tasks from Windows Scheduled Tasks
• Reorder pages in PDF files
• Reposition image files within individual pages in PDF files
• Resize PDFcommander™ project image files
• Rotate image files within individual pages in PDF files
• Rotate pages in PDF files
• Run queries against any or all pages on a website as a Windows Scheduled Task
• Save a filled PDF Form as a PDF
• Scan images into PDF files
• Scheduled emailing of PDFs and other project files
• Search for text in PDFs and other files
• Set opening page in PDF
• Set page mode in PDF
• Set viewer preferences in PDF
• Split PDFs into pages
• Transfer projects, files etc to and from webspace

What do I need to get started?

You need to download PDFcommanderSetup.exe to a folder of your choice.

Adobe Reader is also required and can be downloaded through the menu options at the left and top of the page, or by clicking on the links in the footer.

Run PDFcommanderSetup.exe and follow the instructions.

Updates? PDFcommander™ will automatically update your system whenever you launch PDFcommander™ whilst you are on line!