Missing app icon, UI broken, trial version (surprise!), unclear language
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By 100 Watt Walrus
Well, it did reduce the *one* PDF I was able to test...
HOWEVER…
- User has no choice where the reduced PDFs are created (without permission it creates a new folder in your Pictures directory), so instead of having a reduced version in the same folder as the original, you have to hunt down the copy
- This is surprise trial software (no warning on the App Store) — it won’t reduce PDFs over 1MB, and apparently you can’t reduce more than 3 PDFs before you have to pay. Worse, that limit of 3 includes *attempts* — if you try to reduce 2 PDF that are more than 1MB, you only have 1 PDF left before you have to pay).
- The UI is sloppy and has a lot of bugs (CMD+W doesn’t close the window), including…
… - The app always launching in the lower-left quadrant of the screen, content hidden behind the window’s title bar (including the UPGRADE button)
… - a Menu Bar interface that only works if the app is in the foreground, and doesn’t do anything that couldn’t have (and should have) been handled in standard menus
… - and lot of misspelled words — not to mention words that aren’t actually words ("You have 3 free quato and limite to 1MB Size” — what’s a “quato”? “limite” instead of “limited”?)
- And — basic of basics — the app has an icon in the App Store, but the real app does not — it’s just the generic application icon
I can’t speak to how well it reduces PDFs compared to other software because after being blocked from reducing two PDFs that were over 1MB, I had only one try left (unbeknownst to me), so I wasn’t able to compare its abilibies against other apps.