BabyPDF

With a big man's dream to see a computer on nearly every desk being reality, documents soon started to be stored on computers for both safety reasons and enhanced work flow. Various formats can be used in order to keep important documents secured, with PDF being a popular type. For viewing and editing, applications such as BabyPDF are a simple, yet powerful environment.

Once the application is successfully deployed on your computer, it can automatically take on any PDF document on your computer so you don't have to choose an app each time you need to open one. Besides displaying content on your screen, the application also comes equipped with various editing tools to either work on existing documents or create new ones from scratch.

This feature is easily triggered by hitting the corresponding button in the main window. A different one is brought up, with a decent amount of preview and editing space at your disposal, as well as a side panel that provides quick access to all editing tools and thorough customization options.

Some of the most commonly encountered drawing tools can be used, such as a pen, shape tools, the possibility to insert a text field or an image, as well as a few more. What's more, appearance, dimension, gradient brush and a few miscellaneous settings can be tweaked from the side panel. Modifying values to make the new object shape suit your style is all it takes, with the preview section updating in real time.

Although packed with a handful of editing tools, it becomes a little difficult and frustrating to create complex documents. Some shapes don't really come out as you'd expect, and regardless of the options you choose, the object's size box is the same for all, making positioning and rotation more of a nuisance. This becomes a greater obstacle because of the incredibly small anchor points which require substantial zoom for careful adjustment.

What's more, the application is incapable of detecting objects already created, so if you want to edit an existing PDF document it only enables you to make use of drawing tools on top of the document content, without affecting it whatsoever.

The viewer counterpart also leaves something to be desired. Even if it's easy to use and no accommodation problems are encountered, viewing and navigation is a little difficult. A side panel is available, but not for quickly selecting pages, instead it is dedicated to bookmarks, without the possibility to remove, nor resize it, thus only wasting space.

You can only view one page at a time, and navigation is done with the help of corresponding buttons found in the upper toolbar. Moreover, using your mouse for navigation is slightly limited, frustrating and you have to figure out the controls yourself.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that BabyPDF comes in handy as a quick method of viewing small PDF files. Poor implementation of features in both the editor and viewer make it lack practicability for long term use. There are no functionality issues, but for a more professional approach on editing, we suggest you do more research.