However, if you're working for yourself, or in a company that has only limited needs to create, edit and manipulate PDF files you can find other cheaper, or even free, alternatives. If you're working in a professional environment and need a PDF solution to cover (virtually) every scenario, then you probably do need Acrobat Pro. The reality is that there is no alternative to Acrobat Pro per se, but there are a lot of alternatives to it for certain functions. The point is, when asking for an alternative, what do you actually need to do? What is an alternative for one person may well not work for someone else, with different needs. I've used Acrobat Pro 9 at work for years, and recently updated to Acrobat DC, but in all that time, I've hardly scratched the surface of what it can do! It is a massive piece of software, with lots of functions that most users will probably never need. The biggest problem when people ask about an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro is that what they use it for is probably different to what other people use it for.
