I looked at alternatives from Adobe and they are all far too expensive for me, so I need to find a replacement tool. The most essential functionality I need is:
- Add text to Adobe documents, and edit text in existing documents (mostly for filling in forms)
- Shrink PDF files created by my scanner to a usable size (scanner files typically 2-4 MB per page, Acrobat reduces them to around 250Kb per page)
- Convert PDF files to greyscale (one of my customers insists on greyscale and I have colors in a logo in my word documents)
- Create high quality PDF files from Word documents, including links, bookmarks, etc.