I am looking for good value PDF editor. Would anyone here have good or bad experience to share? If its free (and actually good) all the better, but i am also willing to put some cash on the table. A bit anyways.

We have PDF-Xchange at work, which is nice piece of software but happens to cost 70e. I am a bit unwilling to put that cash on the table atm.

This page had few programs listed: http://convert-pdf-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

#4 Corel PDF Fusion pops to eye, i think the 40usd price is without tax though. Has anyone ever tried it?

#6 PDF Suite Pro & #7 CutePDF Professional dont seem super expensive either - but can anyone recommend them?

My OS is ╰(◣﹏◢)╯ (Win8).

I doubt there (m)any, Adobe is pretty protective of their format.
There are several free/open source PDF viewers, but I don't really know any editors.
You could use some DTP software like Scribus that allows you to export to PDF.
And some simple tasks can be done using the PDFill tools.
There are also plenty of PDF printers if you just want to convert documents to PDF (, [url=http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php]Bullzip and PDF Creator).
Editors will probably always cost money since they need to license the format from Adobe, such as the software you indicated or Foxit Editor.
I could be wrong of course, that's just what I think.

I don't have any recommendations on PDF editors (was about to suggest PDF-Xchange, not knowing how much it cost) but I do have some advice that might or might not be helpful. The PDF format is designed with publishing in mind, rather than authoring, so PDF editors are more for making alterations to existing PDF documents than for creating new ones, and unless that's what you're actually wanting to do you might find it more useful to use whatever software is most appropriate for the kind of document you're making (Inkscape, MS Office, TeX, whatever) and simply export it to PDF when you're done. If the software doesn't have an option to export to PDF you could even find a printer driver that outputs to a PDF file instead of a printer.

What exactly are you wanting to accomplish at the end of the day? If we know, someone can suggest something that'll do the job better than a PDF editor.

Thanks to my work, i have to deal with alot of pdf files. usually plans of all sorts. As i dont have laptop i dont usually bring the work to home, but at times i just have to do some commenting, merging and what not. I asked our ITC departement to give me a lincence, but apparently its "not ok" for my own computer.

But anyways, its the basic functions i really am looking for atm. Adding, removing pages, merging files, perhaps being able to draw some lines or whatever on the pdf, without the need to first change it into pic format and then back to pdf etc.

Now that i take a proper look at the pdf xchange price, 70e is for the most expensive "Pro" version with 3 years of maintenance (whatever that actually means). I think what i have at work is PDF-Xchange "PDF-Tools", which looks like to cost 33€ with 0 years additional maintenance.

Guess i could consider that afterall. The maintenance thing just kinda sucks. No idea how well they update their product and paying for updates is just not fun for home use. thanks for the links, ill take a look later.

No worries, I used to support quite a few people with similar questions so I do still remember some of the stuff I researched back then. But like Ape-in-Boots said, it's an end product format.
Like how you use PSDs to edit in Photoshop, but you send PNG/GIF/JPG to your customer.
I have used PDFill in the past to add pages and merge PDFs, but that's as far as I go in actually working with PDFs.

Adding/removing pages and concatenating files can be done by pdftk.

That looks interesting - have to take closer look before i start sending money anywhere :)

thanks!

Word 2013 can edit PDFs directly but I don't know how accurate it is (this is the first version to have this feature). It can save the result back to PDF as well as all the usual formats so if you already have Office 2013 anyway this is definitely worth trying.

PDF editors generally respect restrictions on the original file (no editing etc.) so you will need to get around that first before you can edit such files, e.g. print to a virtual PDF printer (CC PDF Converter is free and simple) to make a fully unsecured version, then edit that.