Ashampoo PDF Portable is a complete and versatile toolkit designed to create, edit, convert, combine, and secure your PDF documents. It allows you to produce perfectly formatted files that display correctly on any device, while powerful encryption options help you protect sensitive content. With its intuitive editing tools, modifying a PDF feels as natural as editing a Word document.
Key Features
- Create and edit fully interactive PDF forms
- Compare two PDF documents side by side
- Take precise snapshots of any page region
- Edit embedded images instantly using your preferred external editor
- Apply legally compliant Bates numbering for professional document processing
- Replace colors across an entire PDF in one step
- Split PDFs into smaller documents using custom page ranges
- Includes backwards compatibility with PDF 1.4
- Redesigned text-formatting dialog for faster editing
- New layout panel with quick access to paragraph, line, and letter settings
- Replace document fonts to ensure compatibility across different PDF tools
- Clearer, more expressive toolbar icons
- Unified editing mode (no more switching between View/Comment/Edit)
- Improved menu structure for better navigation
- Quick-access toolbar for the most frequently used page operations
- Automatic repair for damaged or inconsistent PDFs
Interactive Form Design
Ashampoo PDF Portable makes it simple to build your own interactive forms. Add drop-down menus, checkboxes, text fields, and more—creating forms that anyone can easily fill out using any standard PDF reader.
Parallel Document Comparison
The side-by-side comparison mode synchronizes scrolling and highlights even the tiniest differences between two versions of a document—ideal for translations, contract reviews, or revision checks.
Advanced Snapshot Tools
Capture any section of your document as an image, with customizable resolution, file format, color depth, and even alpha transparency support.
Efficient Bates Numbering
Apply Bates numbers, timestamps, headers, or footers to multiple documents or entire folders at once, perfect for legal professionals or large-scale document processing.
Seamless External Image Editing
Open embedded images directly in your favorite editing application with one click. After saving your changes, Ashampoo PDF Portable automatically updates the image inside the PDF—no exporting or re-importing required.
Document-Wide Color Replacement
Quickly update the design of your PDF by replacing specific colors throughout the entire document in a single action.
Modernized User Interface
The interface has been completely redesigned with cleaner icons, a more intuitive layout, and optional touch-friendly controls—ideal for high-resolution monitors and touchscreen devices.
Powerful Editing Tools
Modify text, insert graphics, adjust layout structures, and merge PDFs effortlessly. A built-in virtual printer allows you to generate PDFs from any application that supports printing.
OCR and Advanced Conversion
The integrated OCR engine transforms scanned documents into editable, searchable text. Convert PDFs into Word, Excel, EPUB, HTML, RTF, and various image formats with high accuracy.
Enhanced Find & Replace
Replace text, fonts, hyperlinks, or colors across one or multiple PDFs in seconds—an extremely powerful tool rarely found in standard PDF editors.
Annotation and Markup
Add notes, highlight important content, insert drawings, and use built-in stamps such as “Approved” or “Confidential” to annotate your documents with ease.
PDF Creation
Generate high-quality PDFs from any Windows application. Ashampoo PDF Portable can automatically reduce image sizes to optimize documents for online publishing.
Change Tracking & Spell Checking
Track revisions, highlight edits, and use the built-in spellchecker and auto-hyphenation to ensure clean, professional-looking documents.
128-bit AES Protection
Secure your PDFs with strong encryption that restricts viewing, editing, printing, or text extraction. Sensitive data can also be permanently blacked out.
Form Filling Support
Fill both interactive PDF forms and traditional static forms commonly used by government agencies or institutions.
Graphic & Page Manipulation
Insert, move, crop, or rotate graphics. Rearrange, delete, rotate, or extract pages. Combine multiple PDFs or import pages from other documents effortlessly.
PDF/A Archiving Standard
Supports the ISO-certified PDF/A standard for long-term digital preservation, ensuring files remain readable years into the future.
Smart Document Comparison
Differences between documents can be automatically detected, highlighted in color, and listed as clickable entries in a sidebar—making revision analysis fast and efficient.
Digital Signatures
Sign documents securely to confirm authenticity and integrity. Digital signatures prevent tampering and provide trust for recipients.
What’s New in Ashampoo PDF Pro 5
Ashampoo PDF Pro 5 introduces several major enhancements:
- Full native 64-bit performance
- Ability to edit PDFs protected by master passwords
- Book-view layout (two-page spread view)
- Page-by-page scrolling for precise navigation
- Drag-and-drop automatic document comparison
- Consistent text formatting using the last-used font
- Flexible opening behavior (tabs, windows, or same workspace)
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