Professional
Business
PDF Architect — the editor
Edit, convert, secure, review and e-sign PDFs. For end users and teams.
B2B PDF Editor
Doc Composition & Automation
One vendor, one contract
From viewer to document automation. One portfolio, the right tool for every user.
Most employees only need to read. A few edit daily. IT runs automation. License each user exactly what they use — no idle editor seats, no e-sign add-on, no cloud lock-in.
Renewal coming up?
Send us your seat count and renewal date — we'll map users to the right mix and send a one-page recommendation.
Overview
Edit on every desk. Automate across the organization.
You need both: a desktop PDF editor for daily work, and a centralized engine that standardizes PDF output.
Professional
Terminal Server
Server
PDFCreator — the engine
Installs as a Windows printer. Any app that can print generates a standardized, automated PDF.
01Generate
PDFCreator turns app output into standardized PDFs.
02Edit & review
PDF Architect edits, comments, fills, signs.
03Distribute & archive
PDFCreator Server routes and archives, with full traceability.
Key differentiations
Everything Adobe and Foxit do, without the cloud or the separate e-sign bill.
With Adobe Acrobat or Foxit, e-signature is an add-on you pay for separately. Avanquest includes unlimited e-sign in PDF Architect Business — and keeps your documents on your servers, not in someone else's cloud.
Incumbent
Adobe Acrobat / Foxit
Powerful. Expensive. Cloud-first.
- Annual price increases at renewal
- E-sign add-on sold separately
- Cloud-first by default — Cloud Act exposure
- Half the features your users never touch
- Forced upgrade cycles
Premium price · Vendor lock-in
The credible alternative
Avanquest portfolio
Same features. On your servers.
- European vendor — GDPR, no Cloud Act exposure
- On-premise — MSI / GPO / SCCM deployment
- Unlimited e-sign included — no separate add-on
- Lower total cost than incumbent editors
- Add PDFCreator for centralized automation
Premium price · Vendor lock-in
Free tools
Consumer / free PDF tools
Cheap. Unmanaged. Doesn't scale.
- User-dependent quality — every desk differs
- No IT control, no MSI/GPO
- No e-sign, no automation
- No audit trail, no compliance story
- Compliance risk on regulated workflows
Free · Zero IT governance
All editions: priority support, unlimited updates, ad-free. v6.0+ requires 64-bit.
PDF Architect · The editor
Two editions. Licensed per user, by what they actually do.
Professional
- Edit, convert, OCR, merge & split
- Review, annotate, redact
- Forms and basic e-signature
- Per-user · 3 computers per user
Business
- Everything in Professional, plus:
- OCR Advanced (batch & higher accuracy)
- Unlimited eSignatures
- Admin console + MSI / GPO / SCCM
Annual subscription · Volume discounts by tier · 3 computers per user · Free unlimited support
PDFCreator · The engine
A document automation engine, not just a PDF converter.
The right edition is set by your infrastructure, not by user count.
- Set the rule once, every print follows
- Hours of manual handling back weekly
- IT-defined output by design
Terminal Server
- License the server, not every seat
- Lower total cost at scale
- Nothing to install on user machines
Server
- High-volume automated pipelines
- Wire into ERP, ECM or e-commerce
- Runs as a service — no bottleneck
All editions: priority support, unlimited updates, ad-free. v6.0+ requires 64-bit.
Trusted at scale
Scalable and compliant by design
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Avanquest's install base spans banking, aerospace, retail, insurance, healthtech and public sector. SparkDynamic is the official Avanquest partner for licensing, onboarding and rollout.
Your partner
Talk to specialist
More than a licence reseller
SparkDynamic picks the right product, the right edition, the right rollout — and stays with you after.
- Official Avanquest distributor & solution partner
- Volume licensing & multi-year quotes
- Deployment: MSI, GPO, License Server, terminal-server
- Migration from legacy PDF tools
- One partner — in your language, your time zone
Contact
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