Cisdem PDFMaster for Windows User Guide

Cisdem PDFMaster for Windows is a complete PDF solution, which offers you the simplest way to work with PDF. You can read, edit, annotate, convert, encrypt/decrypt, comprare, measure, manager and perform OCR on PDF files, below is a guide to help you to get started quickly with Cisdem PDFMaster for Windows.

 

Part 1 Get Started

Download & Install

1. You can download the installation package of Cisdem PDFMaster from the below link.

Free Download  

2. Install Cisdem PDFMaster with the downloaded package.

Double-click the .exe file to run it, select a location to install the program.

Click Next > Next > Install to continue the installation process, when the below window appears, it means that the program has been installed successfully.

 

Activation Cisdem PDFMaster

After installing the program, you can apply 7 trial days for testing before making a purchase decision, within the 7 trial days, you can use the full features of the program.

When the trial version expires and you want to use the full features still, you will need to activate the program with your license code.

1. Find Cisdem PDFMaster on your desktop or in the folder where you installed it, double click to run it, and then click the key icon at the left upper corner or click > Enter License.

2. Copy-n-paste the license code into the popped-up window, click Activate.

 

Part 2 Open PDF

For your convenience to read and work with PDF files, Cisdem PDFMaster provides several ways for you to open the PDF files.

Part 2.1 Set Cisdem PDFMaser as default PDF viewer

Run Cisdem PDFMaster, click > File Attributs, check the option "Set as the default PDF viewer" in the popped-up window. Then you can directly double click your PDF file to open it with Cisdem PDFMaster.

Part 2.2 Open PDF from Home Page

1. Click Open Files button, hold on the Ctrl key and select the PDF files that you want to open with Cisdem PDFMaster.

2. Directly click the target PDF file from the Recent list or Recent folder.

3. Directly drag and drop the PDF files into the window of Cisdem PDFMaster.

 

Part 2.2 Open PDF from feature page

If you have opened a PDF file, it will bring you to the feature page. You can also open more PDF files in the feature page.

1. Click + to select one or more PDF files to open.

2. Click  to select one or more PDF file to open.

3. Click  > Open Files/Recent to select the PDF files that you want to open. 

 

Part 3 Read PDF

Cisdem offers multiper display modes for you to view and read your PDF file with a fantastic experience.

Part 3.1 Multi-tabs/Windows view

Cisdem allows you to open a PDF in a new window or a new tab in the same window. If you want to change the settings, you can click > File Attributes, change the option "Open a document in"

 

Part 3.2 Display Mode

It is easy to change the layout while viewing the PDF files, you can click the corresponding icons on the right column or on the bottom line.

1. Single Page : It is the default display mode, with this mode, it will display a single page at a time.

2. Two Page : With this mode, it will display two pages at a time.

3. Book Mode : If you choose this mode, the cover page of the PDF will display at the top.

4. Read Mode : Enter into the Read Mode, it can let you focus on reading without any distractions. You can press the Esc key or click  to exit the Read Mode.

5. Slideshow Mode: If you want to display your PDF file like a presentation, you can choose this mode. You can also use the laser pen and freehand pen to highlight the key point.

6. Text Reflow: If you select this mode, the texts will shift to fit the page without any images or comments. You can change the font size and background color as you like.

 

Part 3.3 Split View

If you compare two parts of the same file side by side and work with both simultaneously, you can use the Split View function.

1. You can choose to view vertical or Horizental by clicking the corresponding icons on the right side.

2. You can also right click any area of the PDF file and choose Vertical or Horizental.

 

Part 3.4 Crop

You can easily remove the unneeded contents or trim the margins automatically with the Crop feature of Cisdem PDFMaster.

1. Click Page Display> Crop> Select area, you can manually select area on that page to crop.

2. You can also click Page Display> Crop> Crop Current Page/Crop All Pages to trim the margins automatically with the current page or all pages. 

 

Part 3.5 Thumbnail View

Click on the left side panel, it will list every page's thumbnail of your PDF file so that you can easily navigate the target page.

 

Part 3.6 Outline View

Click  on the left side panel, it will display the outlines of your PDF if there it is.

You can also add, edit or delete the outlines to better organize your ideas, visualize and paper structures.

Click or right click an existing item and choose add item or add sub-item to add an outline, you can also edit, rename, delete or change destination by right clicking.

 

Part 4 Annotate PDF

When you want to share a PDF file to others, and it is much more effective to directly add comments in the PDF file compared with writing the comments in email or a paper. Cisdem PDFMaster provides you a vaious kinds of tools to add coments into a PDF file, click on the tool bar, you will see all the annotation tools on the sub tool bar.

Part 4.1 Markup tools 

The simplest types of markup annotations are text markup annotations for marking up page text. These include text highlight, underline, or strikeout annotations.

To markup a PDF file with Cisdem PDFMaster, you can just select a markup tool on the sub tool bar, then drag your mouse to cover a region of texts. You can also change the color and opacity on the right side.

 

Part 4.2 Freehand and Eraser

Select , you can draw anything you like on your PDF file, and if you want to remove the lines you painted, you can just click  to erase it.

 

Part 4.3 Text Box 

Select , click at the target place in your PDF file, type in the texts content in the box, you can adjust the text box size by draging and adjust the font, color and border line on the right side.

 

Part 4.4 Note

Select , click at the target place in your PDF file, a note icon will appear there, click the note icon, you can enter the texts in the note window. You can also change the note's color and opacity on the right side.

 

Part 4.5 Drawing shapes

To draw attention to some certain parts of your PDF file, you can use drawing tools to add different graphic elements, such as rectangle, circle, arrow and line into your PDF file.

Just pick your shape, click and drag on the target place. You can also customize those shapes on the right side.

 

Part 4.6 Link

Select, click and drag where you need the attachment icon to be, then you can select to redirect to a page in this PDF file, a hyperlink or an email address on the right side.

 

Part 4.7 Stamp

A stamp annotation is a simple way for you to add text with drawings in a PDF file,you are allowed to add Standard, Custom and Dynamic stamps as you prefer. Just select , you will be able to choose the stamp that you prefer on the right side.

 

Part 4.8 Image

You can click to insert an image into your PDF file

 

Part 4.9 Signature

Select , click  on the righ tisde, you can manually draw a signature, select a default signature or upload a signature picture and add it on your PDF file.

 

Part 4.10 Bookmark

Click , it will generate a bookmark for the page you are reading, click on the left panel, you can find all the bookmarks you've created, you can also delete the unwantted bookmarks there.

 

Part 4.11 Export/import and delete annotations

Click on the left panel, all the annotations that you've created are listing there, you can click to export all the annotations as a XFDF file, meanwhile, you can import the XFDF file into another PDF file.

You can also right click the target annotation or click to delete the annotations.

 

Part 5 Page Edit

Want to manage or organize the PDF pages, like inserting pages, extracting pages or replacing pages? Just click   on the tool bar, then you will see all the page edit tools on the following sub tool bar. Please note that you can either hold down Ctrl key and click multiper pages or directly drag your mouse to highlight multipler pages, and then select a tool to edit those pages.

1. Insert: Click , it will pop up a window to allow you customize the insert settings.You can select to insert a blank page or pages of another PDF file, also you can choose the page that you want to insert before or after. 

2. Replace: It can help you to replace some pages from the current PDF file with the pages from another PDF file. Just highlight the pages that you want to replace, click , choose the target PDF file and click Open.

3. Extract : Click, it allows you to choose the page range that you want to extract, also you can choose to extract all the pages into a single PDF or each page in a seperate file.

4. Split: Click it, it allows you to split every page into seperate files, split averately to multipe PDF file or split by a page range.

5. Reverse: Highlight the pages that you want to invert and click .

6. Rotate: Just highlight the pages that you want to rotate, click  to rotate those pages clockwise. You can also right click to rotate the pages counterclockwise.

7. Except the tools above, you can also copy, paste and delete the pages.

 

Part 6 Editor

Click  on the tool bar, you can find all the editor tools on the sub tool bar, like Compress, Merge, Security, Watermark, Background, Header&Footer, Bates Numbers and Measure tools.

1. Compress ： If you have a large-size PDF file, and you want to upload or send it as an attachment in email, the easist way is to use Cisdem PDFMaster to compress your PDF file into a smaller size. Just click on  the sub tool bar , select a quality on the pop-up window, click Compress to save the compressed PDF file. You can also click  to add more files to batch compress.

2. Merge: You can use this tool to merge the currently opend PDF and another PDF files. You can adjust the order of those PDF files by clicking "Move Up" or "Move Down", moreover, you can highlight a PDF file and select the page range that you want to merge by clicking "Page Range".

3. Security: PDF restrictions enable you to prevent someone opening your PDF file from making changes, which include a majority of restrictions, such as opening, copying, printing, etc.​ You can use Cisdem PDFMaster to encrypt your PDF or remove the permision password. 

a. Set Passwords: You can add open password, permission password or both on your PDF files, just click  on the sub menu tool and choose Set Passwords. Tick the password type you want to add on your PDF file and enter the password.

b. Remove Security: Cisdem PDFMaster can only remove the permission password from your PDF file, if there is an open password with your PDF file, you will have to enter your open password first, then you can click > Remove Security to remove the permission password from your PDF file. 

4. WatermarkAdd watermark to PDF is also one of the ways to protect your PDF files from being used without authorization.

Click on the sub tool bar, choose Add Watermark, you can customize the watermark as you like, you can also save it as a template so that you can directly use it next time. 

5. Background: Backgrounds can increase the appearance factor of your PDF document, you can add or remove background with Cisdem PDFMaster with a few steps.

Click on the sub tool bar, choose Add Background, you can add pure color or upload an image as the background, also you can do other settings as you like.

6. Header & Footer: Headers and footers generally contain additional information such as page numbers, dates or an author's name, which can help keep longer documents organized and make them easier to read.

Click  on the sub tool bar, choose Add Header & Footer, you can choose the date and page number format, add header or footer, change the font and color and other settings you may need.

7. Bates Number: You may need to add bates numbers to a PDF file if you have a document with a large number of pages, so everyone who view the document can easily track and identify the documents.

Click on the sub tool bar, choose Add Bates Number, you can add a unique prefix or suffix to help viewer easily identify this document, it can be case number, firm number, date or others.

8. Measure : With the measure tool, you can measure height, weight or the area of the objects in a PDF file. Just click , you can see four options: Line, multilines, Polygon and Rectangle.

a. Line: It is used to measure the distance between two points, just click the first point, then click on the second point, the distance of those two points will be displayed.

b. Multilines: It is used to measure the distance spanning multiple points.

c. Polygon: It is used to measure the perimeter and area of the closed shape.

d. Rectangle: It is used to measure the perimeter and area of a complete rectangle.

Tips: To exit continious marking, you can double click the end point or press ESC on your keyboard.

 

It is easy to edit the text and image content in a word file, excel file or a powerpoint file, but if you want to directly edit the content in a PDF file, you may need the help of Cisdem PDFMaster.

Part 5.1 Add Text

Click Add Text button under the Edit tab, you can add new text to the position that you'd like. On the right side, you can change the texts' font, font size, align, bold, color, etc as you like. If mistakenly did wrong operations, you can just click  or  to undo/redo it.

If you want to add a hyperlink, you can highlight the added texts content, click  to add the URL.

 

Part 5.2 Add Image

Click Add Image under Edit tab, click on the position where you want to select an image to add into this PDF. You can drag the retangle to adjust the image size, move the image or click  to rotate the added image, also you can click  or press the Delete button on your keyboard to delete it. If mistakenly did wrong operations, you can just click  or  to undo/redo it.

 

Part 5.3 Edit

Click Edit button under Edit tab, each line of the texts and each image will be a seperate block, you can click the target block and click  or directly double click the target block to change the texts in that block. Also you can remove the image or text blocks by clicking  or pressing Delete button on your keyboard. If mistakenly did wrong operations, you can just click  or  to undo/redo it.

 

Part 6 Convert PDF

Cisdem PDFMaster also supports converting PDF to a majority of file formats, such as Microsoft office, image, epub, html and rtf.

Part 6.1 Convert PDF/scanned PDF to MS office formats

You can convert PDF to Word, Excel and Powerpoint file with Cisdem PDFMaster as you like, and you can reference the below methods for how to do that.

1. After opening your PDF file, navigate to the Convert tab.

2. Before converting the PDF file, you can click  to change the settings according to your needs. 

a. OCR Recognition: Normally Cisdem will auto recognized the imported PDF is image-based or not, and choose to use OCR or not. If Cisdem fails to use the OCR function to the image-based PDF file, you can choose "All File" to force using OCR with the imported PDF file.

b. Priority: Cisdem priorities text recognition by default, you can also change the priority to text layout.

3. Select your desired format (To Word, To Excel or To PPT) to click, and then select a save location.

You can also click  > Export to, then select a target output format and select a location to save the exported file.

 

Part 6.2 Convert PDF to image

Cisdem PDFMaster supports converting PDF to images, you can reference the below methods for how to do that.

1. After opening your PDF file, navigate to the Convert tab.

2. Before start converting PDF to image, you need to go to Convert > , select PDF to Image on the left side and then select proper options on the right side. you can choose to convert each page of your PDF into separate images, directly extract all images from your PDF or convert all pages of your PDF into a single image.

3. After that, you can click "To Image" or click  > Export to > Image, select a save location to start the conversion.

 

Part 6.3 Convert image to MS Office formats

1. To convert images to MS Office formats, you need to convert the images to PDF files first. You can click  > Create > From File to upload the images, and then the images will be immediately converted to PDF files.

2. Before selecing a MS Office format to start the conversion, you can click into  , choose "All Files" with the OCR Recognition option to make sure the OCR will be used during the conversion.

3. After that, select your desired format (To Word, To Excel, etc.) to click, and then select a save location. You can also click  > Export to, select a target output format and select a location to save the exported file.

 

Part 7 PDF Tool

Part 7.1 PDF OCR

As we known, a scanned PDF is not searchable, copyable and editable, if you want to, you have to perform OCR with the PDF first.

If it's the first time you use Cisdem PDFMaster, you need to download the extra OCR module first before performing OCR. Cisdem PDFMaster can detect the imported PDF is a scanned PDF or not, when it detects it is a scanned PDF, you will be notified to perform OCR, you can either click  or click Tool > OCR, then a window will pop up to ask you to download the OCR component.

When the download completes, click  or Tool> OCR, you will see the OCR PDF window, you can select the page range that you want to perform OCR for, also please be sure to select the correct languages of your PDF content with the Languages Recognition option.

When the setting is done, click ，an OCRed PDF file will be created and opened in a new tab.

Part 7.2 Compare PDF

You can use Cisdem PDFMaster to compare the content of two PDF files to find differences, just open one PDF file, then click , select another file to be compared and click 

When the compare completes, each differences between those two files will be highlighted in a different color.

 

Part 7.3 Compress PDF

If you want to upload a PDF file or send PDF file as an attachment in email, you can use Cisdem PDFMaster to compress your PDF file into a smaller size. Just open the PDF file with Cisdem PDFMaster, then click , select a proper compress level and click 

When the compression completes, it will automatically open the compressed PDF file, click  to save the compresed PDF file after checking.

 

Part 7.4 Crop pages in PDF

You can use the crop function to reduce the page size of your PDF file with Cisdem PDFMaster, just click  , select the area to crop, select the page range and click  to crop out the pages. Click  to save the cropped pages after checking.

 

Part 7.5 Add watermark to PDF

Add watermark to PDF is also one of the ways to protect your PDF file, and it is easy to add watermark in your PDF file with Cisdem PDFMaster. Just click , type in the texts that you want to add into your PDF file, change the watermark settings if you need, and then click . Click  to save the added watermark PDF file after checking.

 

Part 8 PDF Form

Instead of printing the PDF file and then filling in the form by hand writing, you may fill these forms directly with Cisdem PDFMaster. Before filling a PDF form with Cisdem PDFMaster, you need to know if your form is fillable or not. A fillable form is an interactive form, which contains fields that you can select or fill in; A non-fillable form is a non-interactive form, you can only fill in the form with the tools under Form.

Part 8.1 Fill out interactive form

When you import a PDF form that contains interactive form fields, you will see notified this document contains fillable form fields, and you can click   to highlight all the fillable form fields.

After highlighting all the fillable fields, you will easy to identify those fields, click on them to type in the texts or select options.

Click  to save the form after filling.

 

Part 8.2 Fill in non-interactive form

Since a non-interactive form doesn't contains interactive form fields, if you want to fill in the form, you can use the tools under the Form tab and Add Texts tool under the Edit tab to fill in texts, checkbox list, etc.

 

Part 9 Protect PDF

Part 9.1 Set Password

PDF restrictions enable you to prevent someone opening your PDF file from making changes, which include a majority of restrictions, such as opening, copying, printing, etc. With Cisdem PDFMaster, you can easily check your PDF permissions and set passwords on it as you like.

1. Check PDF permissions

When you open a password protected PDF file, you will be notified this document is protected. Click  > Properties, you will be able to check the permissions of this PDF file.

2. Add passwords

There are two kinds of password that Cisdem can apply to your PDF file: Open password and Permission password, the Open password limits you opening the PDF file, and Permission password limits you copying, editing and printing the PDF file. With Cisdem PDFMaster, you can choose one or two password types to add to your PDF file according to your needs.

Open password: Check this option, enter a password to restric users from opening this PDF file without the password.

Permission password: Check this option, enter a password to restric users from copying, printing or making changes to your PDF file, and there are several options for you to choose with Print Permission and Changes Permission.

 

3. Change/Remove password

If your PDF file is password protected already, you can also use Cisdem PDFMaster to change or remove the password. Open your PDF file with your open password, click , you will be asked to enter your permission password, then you can check Open password/Permission password to enter a new password, click and click  to select a location to save the password changed PDF file. Or if you don't check anything, just click and click , then a non-protected PDF file will be created.

 

Part 9.2 Mark for redaction

To protect some sensitive or import content on your PDF file, sometimes you may need to redact PDF files, and Cisdem PDFMaster can help you to resovle it.

After opening your PDF file, click under the Protect tab, then use your cursor to select the target area in your PDF file, all the selected area will be displayed on the right side, you can click  to apply all the redactions that list on the right side or click under the target area to apply redaction to this area only.

You can also add comment or label text to the redaction as follows:

a. Click , a comment window will appear on the right side, you can directly enter the comment content and click Save.

b. Click , you can  add a label text to replace the redacted area, also you can customize the font, font size, font color, etc.

 

Part 10 PDF Pages

After opening the PDF, you can manage the pages of this PDF file under the Pages tab, including extract pages, change pages order, split pages, replace pages, etc.

Part 10.1 Delete pages from PDF

You can press and hold the Ctrl key and then click to select the pages that you want to delete and click , after that click  to save the changes.

 

Part 10.2 Rotate PDF pages

You can press and hold the Ctrl key and click to select the pages that you want to rotate, and then click  or  to rotate the selected pages, click  to save the changes when it is done.

 

Part 10.3 Extract pages from PDF

You can press and hold the Ctrl key, click to select the target pages that you want to extract from this PDF, click  , select a location to save the extracted PDF pages.

 

Part 10.4 Insert pages in PDF

Click to select the page that you want to insert a blank page before or after it, then click  or 

 

Part 10.5 Split PDF

You can split one PDF file into several PDF files automatically with Cisdem PDFMaster, just click , then set the number of pages you want in each split PDF file, select the save location and click OK.

 

Part 10.6 Replace pages in PDF

If you want to replace some pages in PDF A with some pages in PDF B, you can use the Replace function in Cisdem PDFMaster. Just click  under Pages, click  to import the replacement PDF file, then set the page range of your current PDF and replacement PDF, click OK. Click  to save the changes after checking.

 

Part 11 Batch PDF

Cisdem PDFMaster lets you work with multiple PDF files at once, you can batch convert ,create, compress, encrypt and decrypt PDF files.

 

Part 11.1 Batch Convert PDF

Step 1 Add PDF files to convert

Click  on the home page to get into the PDF Convert window, then you can add or remove PDF files as follows:

a.Dag and drop multiple PDF files into the window.

b.Click , on the following window, press and hold Ctrl key and select the PDF files that you want to add into the window. After adding the PDF files, you can click  to add more PDF files.

c. To remove the added PDF files, you can highlight the target PDF files and then click 

 

Step 2 Select output formats

Click  to select a proper output format.

Tips: You can click  after different output formats to change the settings as you like.

 

Step 3 Select an output location and click 

When the process completes, you can click  or  to directly bring you to the save location of the converted file in explorer.

 

Part 11.2 Batch create PDF

Step 1 Add PDF files to create

Click  on the home page to get into the PDF Create window, then you can add or remove PDF files as follows:

a.Dag and drop multiple PDF files into the window.

b.Click , on the following window, press and hold Ctrl key and select the PDF files that you want to add into the window. After adding the PDF files, you can click  to add more PDF files.

c. To remove the added PDF files, you can highlight the target PDF files and then click 

 

Step 2 Select an output location and click 

1. You can change the name of the created PDF file through here.

2. If you want to merge all the added files into a single PDF file, you can slide on the Merge option.

3. When the process completes, you can direclty click  or  to locate the created PDF file in explorer.

 

Part 11.3 Batch compress PDF

Step 1 Add PDF files to compress

Click  on the home page to get into the PDF Compress window, then you can add or remove PDF files as follows:

a.Dag and drop multiple PDF files into the window.

b.Click , on the following window, press and hold Ctrl key and select the PDF files that you want to add into the window. After adding the PDF files, you can click  to add more PDF files.

c. To remove the added PDF files, you can highlight the target PDF files and then click 

 

Step 2 Select the size that you want to compress to

Tips: You can apply the size of your choice to all other added PDF file by checking the option "Apply to all".

 

Step 3 Select an output location and click 

When the process completes, you can click  or ​ to directly bring you to the save location of the compressed file in explorer.

 

Part 11.4 Batch encypt PDF

Step 1 Add PDF files to encrypt

Click "" on the home page to get into the PDF Encrypt window, then you can add or remove PDF files as follows:

a.Dag and drop multiple PDF files into the window.

b.Click , on the following window, press and hold Ctrl key and select the PDF files that you want to add into the window. After adding the PDF files, you can click  to add more PDF files.

c. To remove the added PDF files, you can highlight the target PDF files and then click 

 

Step 2 Set passwords on added PDF files

Tips: You can add open password and permission password on PDF as you like, also if you want to apply the password settings on all other added PDF files, you can check the option "Apply to all".

 

Step 3 Select an output location and click 

When the process completes, you can click  or ​ to directly bring you to the save location of the encrypted file in explorer.

 

Part 11.5 Batch Decrypt PDF

Cisdem PDFMaster can also help you remove the password from a PDF file to make you get rid of the annoying passwords.

Step 1 Add PDF files to decrypt

​Click  on the home page to get into the PDF Decrypt window, then you can add or remove PDF files as follows:

a.Dag and drop multiple PDF files into the window.

b.Click , on the following window, press and hold Ctrl key and select the PDF files that you want to add into the window. After adding the PDF files, you can click  to add more PDF files.

c. To remove the added PDF files, you can highlight the target PDF files and then click 

 

Step 2 (Optional) Enter an open password for those imported PDF files that requires an open password. If the PDF file only has a permission password, then you don't need to enter the password.

 

Step 3 Select an output location and click 

When the process completes, you can direclty click  or  to locate the decrypted PDF file in explorer.

 

Part 12 Application Update

We always suggest users to use the latest version of the program.

When you launch Cisdem PDFMaster, Cisdem will auto check for updates and prompts you to download the latest version package.

Also, you can click  > Check for Updates on the right upper corner of the program to manually check for updates.