overlooked a few things

There are some great features, like the tile view to rearrange pages which Apple’s native Preview doesn’t have, but many of the other features are less efficient. To rotate a page in Preview, for example, you simply click the toolbar button and it rotates the page to the left - which is the direction that almost all my pages seem to need rotating. In PDF Expert, you need to find the page in the sidebar, right click the page, then select rotate - this gets pretty tedious especially when you want to rotate to the left, in which case you need to right click, select menu item, right click, select menu item, right click, select menu item…. In Preview, you simply click the toolbar icon three times: click click click and you’re done.

Another frustration is when you command-W to close a window, it leaves this annoying “recent files” splash page type thing that you then have to close every time you want to simply close a window, it keeps popping up. No option in the settings to disable this unnecessary, unuseful extra step.

If they were to streamline some of the most common things you are likely to do - like open and close a document, rotate a page, etc - then I would increase to five stars. Until then, it’s just more cumbersome and slower to use than Apple’s free Preview.

Peds clinic about PDF Expert – Edit, Sign PDFs, v2.0.1