Cisdem PDFMaster for Mac Advanced Guide

01. Time-saving Tricks in Cisdem PDFMaster

Cisdem PDFMaster comes packed with a variety of features designed for convenience, but not all of them are obvious at first glance. This guide introduces practical tricks that will help you get the most out of Cisdem PDFMaster.
 

Part 1 Batch Processing

Instead of loading documents one by one, you can drag a whole folder into Cisdem PDFMaster. You can get into the Batch Processing window by taping Tools> .

From there, you can:

* Batch Convert and OCR PDFs to any format or extract texts from scanned PDFs at once.

* Batch Compress all PDFs to reduce file sizes at once.

* Batch apply password protection or remove restrictions across dozens of files in one go.

* Batch add watermarks, backgrounds, head&footers and bates number to customize your PDFs and secure your privacy.

* Batch remove watermark, background, header & footers and bates Number from your PDFs in one go.

This is particularly useful for legal, accounting, or academic professionals who handle large sets of documents daily.
 

Part 2 Hidden Right-Click Options

Right-clicking in different areas of Cisdem PDFMaster reveals context-sensitive tools:

* Right-click on text: Quick rewrite, summarize or translate with AI tools, annotate, add outline, or search the selected word across the document.

* Right-click on a Thumbnail: Quickly edit the PDF page by inserting pages, extracting pages, rotating pages, replacing pages and delete pages.

* Right-click on a tab: Quickly rename opened pdf file, locate the file location in Finder, move tab to a new window, or close multiple files at once.

Part 3 Drag-and-Drop Tricks

Without clicking any button, you can enable some features directy by dragging and dropping:

* Drag images directly into a PDF page to insert them without going through the “Insert” menu.

* Drag a PDF file into another open document’s sidebar to instantly merge them, please note that the dragged PDF will be inserted after the highlighted page of the opened document.

* Drag a selection of text into your desktop: Cisdem PDFMaster automatically exports it as a text snippet.

Conclusion

These time-saving tricks aren’t always obvious, but once you master them, Cisdem PDFMaster becomes much more than a PDF editor — it becomes a true productivity hub. Try incorporating these techniques into your daily routine, and you’ll see how much faster and smoother your PDF work becomes.
 

02. Key Facts About Flattened PDFs

Cisdem PDFMaster provides the function to save your PDF as flattened PDF, before using this function, it’s important to understand what happens when a PDF is flattened. And in this guide, we will walk you through all the key facts you need to know.
 

1. What is Flattened PDF?

When you add annotations and interactive elements into a PDF, they are stored on layers separate from the original PDF content. And when you flattening your PDF, all those layers will be merged into a single and static layer, which locks the content into place, making those annotations and interactive elements no longer editable.
 

2. When should You Flatten a PDF?

* To prevent others from viewing annotations details: When you add annotations to a PDF, it records who and when those annotations were added. If you don’t want recipients to see this metadata, you can flatten the PDF.

* To prevent changes: If you don’t want to prevent any further edits or modifications to a PDF content, you can flatten the PDF.

* To improve compatibility: The structure of a flattened PDF is simplified than a regular PDF, which helps improve compatibility and ensures more consistent display across different devices and viewers.
 

Here’s a real-world example to illustrate when flattening a PDF is useful.

“So, basically, when I sent a PDF to someone that I have amended. "cisdem pdfmaster "and the date it was amended...He can also catch it and delete it. How can I make it such that the person who receives it cannot amend it or see it was amended? ”
 

3. What to Know Before Flattening a PDF?

* Annotations will no longer be editable.

* Links will become inactive.

* Form fields and digital signatures will no longer be fillable.

4. How to Flatten a PDF?

Open the PDF file with Cisdem PDFMaster, click File> Save as Flattened PDF on the top menu bar after finishing the edits. It will generate a flattened PDF and pops up a window to ask you to select a location to save the genrated flattened PDF.