Hello!
What is the best PDF program for editing and creating PDFs?
As everyone has already told you, the MacOS can create a PDF from any file you want to save from virtually any program.
You have to define what you mean by "PDF editor." Are you just looking to do markup and other sorts of manipulation, or do you need to be able to actually *erase* text that is already there in the PDF and replace it with new text?
Adobe Acrobat Pro is the premier PDF editing program for the Macintosh. But it is vastly overpriced.
Adobe Acrobat DC for Macintosh
Adobe Acrobat Pro pricing & options | Adobe Acrobat
There are a bunch of alternatives to Acrobat. The key features to look for in an Acrobat alternative (for it truly to be an alternative to Acrobat) are the ability to delete/replace existing text in a PDF, and to do OCR (to convert the entire document back into a word processing document, if desired). There are only a handful of such programs for the Macintosh:
PDFpen/Pro ($60/$100)
Privacy Consent
Privacy Consent
PDF Studio Pro ($129)
PDF Studio - PDF Editor Software for Mac, Windows and Linux
PDF Nomad ($40)
https://sintraworks.com/index.php/sintraworks/pdfnomad_home/
Wondershare PDF Editor Pro ($100) (now "Element"?)
http://www.wondershare.net/mac-pdf-editor/?icn=nav
Mac PDF Editor Purchase
PDF Editor Pro ($99)
http://macappware.com/software/pdf-editor-pro-mac/
PDF Converter Mac ($100)
http://www.nuance.com/products/pdf-converter-mac/index.htm
iSkysoft PDF Editor Pro ($100)
PDFelement
(I've always found iSkysoft to be a sketchy company...)
http://www.macworld.com/article/1153685/speaking_spammers.html
PDFpen is the most popular of these.
If you are instead looking for a PDF manipulation program, but not a true editor, it's hard to beat Preview. You already have Preview, it is installed with the MacOS, and Preview allows you to do quite a bit of PDF editing. For instance you can:
a) highlight (in yellow), strike through or underline text
b) encircle anything on the page with a lasso of any shape, size or color
c) add marginal notes (in a side column) of any length, anywhere in the document
d) add new text in any font, any color, any size, anywhere in the document where there is space
e) individual pages can be dragged out of or into the document or deleted from the document
f) convert to a PostScript file which can be edited and re-converted to PDF
g) add and edit hyperlinks in a PDF file
h) combine multiple PDF's
But Preview won't allow you to move or alter any marks on the page whatsoever.