pdf Paginate Pro Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience57.8% of reviews
Neutral4.4% of reviews
Negative experience37.8% of reviews

~ Based on 45 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Is pdf Paginate Pro Legit?

pdf Paginate Pro appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for pdf Paginate Pro is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Scam

Stay away. Charged my dollars and no service. One star as gong a star is the only way to review anyway doesn’t deserve a star at all.

Response from developer

Hi Giglest Would you please be more specific and describe the issues that you are experiencing. Very few people complain and you can email me directly if that helps, francis@pdfpaginate.com. I look forward to your reply. Francis

Works Great

I have been using for many years. It is easy to use and does what it should. Help from author Francis Wildman is readily available. I am very pleased with this app.

Response from developer

Thanks very much for telling everyone jsmbem63. If anyone has any issues please contact me francis@pdfpaginate.com

Absolutely useful

Lovely little app and the supports good if ever you need it.

Just what I needed

What a pleasant surprise to purchase a program that was easy to use and contained all of the requirements I needed for numbering a legal document. Thank you for making this so painless!

Looked promising at first

At least for a book that uses Russian Cyrillic, the cyrillic is somehow transformed such that selecting and copying words using the default Mac preview app no longer works propertly.

For example: "научиться" selected and pasted from the new paginated version copies as "R̆ӯΔΘЍΓΝΒΠ"

Also understanding how the user interface works is far from intuitive, but I figured it out by trial and error.
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Excellent

Simple app that does what it promises: paginate a pdf. Very reasonable price. Developer extremely helpful with answering user questions. Highly recommended.

Cumple su función

Funciona perfectamente. La única pega -que no afecta a la funcionalidad- es que una vez que he elegido los ajustes (tamaño de letra, posición, etc.) me gustaría poder guardar esos ajustes para utilizarlos en otros documentos (creo que no se puede).

Works!

Using OSX Ventura 13.6 on iMac, I needed page numbers on a compiled PDF file. The file was created by merging multiple PDFs into a single Treasurer's report, a monthly task of mine. Paginate added the page numbers beautifully and quickly.

I had to spend 5 minutes experimenting with how to discard my test page numbers as I compared various font styles and sizes. To erase the cluttered test page numbers, I simply clicked on OPEN to re-open a refreshed version of my file. Easy.

I also have to use my Mac's Font Book app to see a visual of what each font would look like. Would be nice to see the fonts while in the app, but it's not a show stopper.

$5 well spent, if this first-time use is any gauge of future performance. Thanks, Francis!
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3.0.0 Update

The new update has just too many bugs. If the PDF you open in the app has some horizontal and some landscape pages the software just breaks. It used to work beautifully before. Also, now the page numbers appear to be a textbox on the PDF, instead of being a part of the file, and it's too easy to accidentally click on them. I'm really missing the old version of this software.
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Response from developer

Hi Will T. Thanks for taking the time to post. Sorry to take so long to notice it, always better to email me. Here is how to get around your first issue and what the problem is. To solve your issue; Open the file that you want to paginate in Preview -> go to ‘File’ -> ‘Export…’ -> Select ‘PDF’ in the ‘Format’ drop down box and Save the file with a new name -> now open the file with the new name in pdf Paginate Pro and paginate as you did before. This should work, if it does not then please let me know (francis@pdfpaginate.com), in fact please let me know if it did work as well. The Explanation, If your issue is solved then you may not wish to read this bit but just in case you were interested; pdf Paginate Pro relies on the file it is paginating knowing the page number for each page that it is adding the numbers to. Sometimes the page number, size and/or orientation is not reported properly within the file itself. By exporting the file as a PDF using Preview you recreate the file and as you do Preview sets all the page numbers, sizes and orientations again but to the correct settings. Then as pdf Paginate adds the page numbers it is getting the correct page numbers, sizes and orientations from the information in the file that it is paginating. As to your second issue, I can confirm that what you now complain of has always been a feature, as opposed to a bug, in all versions of pdf Paginate Pro. I don’t remember anyone ever complaining about it before although a number of people have said how useful it is. They find it useful because after paginating they can ‘fine tune’ some of the numbers by changing colour, location on the page etc for some odd pages that they have. Thanks again. Francis

Works great

Worked perfectly to add page numbers to a large pdf document (over 100 pages) on my M1 Mac.

Extremely Helpful for Exhibit Page Numbers

This app was a huge help, and worked exactly like I needed it to on Big Sur. Used it to apply numbers to an exhibit to legal pleadings. I've worked a lot with Bates numbering in the past, and this tool works well for adding them to a document quickly.

Thanks!

brilliant

Great app the one thing that would make it perfect would be if it could do page 1 of x(total number of pages). But for what its for its intended pourpose its great simple and effective

Update doesn't work properly

I am trying to add pages to a footer on the right and although odd pages are correct, even page numbers are appearing in the header on the page instead. I used to LOVE this app!

Subtle, simple, and works

It just works. Very rarely, there is the bug that OMTW mentioned, but the workaround on that review fixes it.

It makes what would be a very labourious task, easy. There is a subtle sense of satisfaction and appreciation everytime I use it - money well spent.

If you have to deal with collating documents for bundles etc, you will appreciate this app.
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Excellent At What It does

This is a great programme for being able to do somethng that is missing in 'Preview' and that is to paginate various different PDF documents that have been combined into one.

It is very versitile - as you can chose Text to go either before or after Page Numbers; the size, colour and font used and the location of where the numbers are put.

Furthermore, until the Paginated PDF is subsequently 'Exported' as a PDF you still retain the ability to amend the 'text' on individual pages.

Highly recommended.
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Just right

Nicely designed app that does one thing really well IMO. Great for adding page numbers to PDFs. Simple and not overcomplicated, but enough features to handle different needs. Nice to be able to specify before text, after text, font, text color, location, and starting number. At one point I made the error of keeping the font colored white from a prior usage and couldn't understand why the numbering was not showing on new documents (with white backgrounds), but the developer quickly pointed out that my chosen font color was my issue. Works for me!
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Stopped Working...

It worked so well at first, but recently when I try to use it, crashes occur. It just disappears! I have paid for this app so this is not at all acceptable! I updated the app and even upgraded my OS (from Mojave to Big Sur 11.0), and it still does not work. Something needs to be done, or a refund is in order. I would be glad to positively update this review but, until this problem is fixed, I can NOT recommend this application.
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Response from developer

Hi iJaiOnline I haven't been able to make pdf Paginate Pro crash and according to apple of the users who agree to allow me to see crashes it has crashed on one device in the last two weeks. Would you tell me by email, francis@pdfpaginate, more about what you are doing when it crashes please. I can then try to follow up further. Thanks Francis

Would be great if it worked!

My first attempt to use it result in a correctly-placed number on page 1, slightly higher on p2, slightly higher on p3, but ALSO on page 3 it said page 4, and got steadily worse, plonking the numbers anywhere. Admittedly, the pages collected together in this 24 page PDF were not all the same size (only slightly so, and all portrait), but the problem was similar and just as bad if I put the number middle top, rather than middle bottom. Happy to revise my opinion if this can be fixed - would save me firing up an old PC and ancient Acrobat writer program!
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Response from developer

Hi Puds3y I don't know why you have the problem that you have described. Would you email me directly, francis@pdfpaginate.com, and I can try to resolve it. Thanks Francis

Don't use this

Adding page numbers to the PDF destroys the ability to copy and paste text from the PDF to something else. This is a common problem with programs like this. I've found that SmallPDF does this without destroying the PDF.

Response from developer

Hi Lessig Having read your review I have just checked the functionality of pdf Paginate pro and I found that I could copy, paste and search text from a paginated document. I would be interested to know more about the problems that you have had and I would like to hear from anyone else with such issues so please do email me at francis@pdfpaginate.com. I was not able to find SmallPDF on the Mac Appstore. Francis

It puts the numbers on the pages

Or does it put the pages under the numbers? This great mystery may never be solved, but who cares. I have numbered pages.