California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Adobe Acrobat vs. Foxit Phantom Comparison Sheet
PhantomPDF Adobe
Standard 6.0 Acrobat XI
Pro
PDF Create and Convert
Create industry standard PDF files from virtually printing on all PC
applications & popular image formats
PDF specifications 1.7 / ISO 32000 compatible
One‐Step PDF Creation from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Create PDF documents from any application that prints, and send to
Evernote as attachments
Export to text files
Export to word, rtf and excel format
Export to ppt and html format
Export to Image
Customizable PDF creation properties
Create ISO standard PDF/A files
Create PDF from blank page
Create PDF from multiple files and file types, scanner
Merge multiple files into a single PDF document
Merge opened PDF files
PDF Viewing Features
Capable of viewing all PDF types
Open and decrypt AD RMS encrypted PDF documents
Ribbon mode with Microsoft Office 2013 style
View PDF portfolios
Send to Evernote
Safe mode to control unauthorized actions and data transmissions,
including URL connections, launching texternal files and running
JavaScript functions to avoid attacks from malicious document
Text viewer
Multi‐tab browsing
Magnifier
Loupe Tool
Side‐by‐side document comparisons
View and navigate page thumbnails, bookmarks
Grids and custom drawing guides to help positioning objects in the
PDF
Search including bookmarks and comments
PDF A, E, and X validation
PDF Editing Features
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California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Adobe Acrobat vs. Foxit Phantom Comparison Sheet
PhantomPDF Adobe
Standard 6.0 Acrobat XI
Add, edit, delete and manage document hyperlinks and bookmarks, Pro
custom actions for bookmarks and hyperlinks, such as opening a file,
playing a sound, go to a web page, etc.
Add, edit, delete and manage image
Add, edit, delete and manage multimedia annotation
Add, edit delete and manage header and footer, background,
watermark
Set different color for edited text object
Paragraph editing and reflow text in a paragraph
Add, edit, delete and manage Text and Path object
Move, resize, rotate, cut, copy and paste graphic and image objects
Manage pages in a document (reorder, new, insert, extract, crop,
rotate and delete pages)
Drag and drop to re‐order PDF pages in one file or multiple files
Insert pages from scanner
Reorder pages from dropping and dragging thumbnail in page
thumbnail panel
OCR text recognition to create searchable and selectable documents
Find OCR Suspect and Edit the recognition result
Recreate scanned/image‐based PDF to editable file
PDF optimizer
Bates Numbering
PDF/A, E, X document creation
PDF Reviewing Features
Add, manage, view and navigate document comments
Familiar comment, markup tools (notes, text boxes, callouts,
highlight, underline, strikeout, squiggly, cross‐out, typewriter,
Stamps, etc.) and drawing tools (comment tools including lines,
rectangles, pencil, oval, polygon, cloudy, arrow)
Measuring tool for distance, perimeter and area measuring
Attach a file as a comment
Organize and manage a library of stamps
Import/Export comments data
View and navigate document digital signatures
Copy, cut and paste Annotations
Summarize comments
Print with comments for efficient review
PDF Forms Features
Fill in and save forms, including static XFA forms
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California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Adobe Acrobat vs. Foxit Phantom Comparison Sheet
PhantomPDF Adobe
Standard 6.0 Acrobat XI
Fill in and save dynamic XFA forms
Import/Export form data, reset form fields Pro
JavaScript support
Draw and edit form controls (test fields, buttons, drop‐down lists,
check boxes, radio buttons and digital signature fields)
Automatic form recognition
Form design assistant to recognize field and create form by clicking
Edit static XFA form
PDF Security Features
Add, edit, delete and manage passwords secure encryption and
permission controls to PDF files
Add, edit, delete and manage certification secure encryption and
permission controls to PDF files
Add, edit delete and manage security policies
Add, edit, delete and manage digital signatures to PDF files
Sends, signs and saves PDF documents using the industry’s most
widely used eSignature solution – DocuSign
Quick PDF sign from drawing, exporting image or clipboard
Place quick signature on multiple pages on the same position
Redaction to remove insentive content permanently
Certify document and set permitted actions after certifying
Log the usage of RMS secured document such as opening, printing,
editing
PDF Filter Features
Allows the Windows indexing service and other Windows search
technologies to index PDF files
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