TK, They do have a PhantomPDF desktop program... occupies the best part of a gigabyte.... does not work on Vista... though installs without mentioning it won't run... would likely install on XP too and not run there either. Badly implimented installer script.

Zen , nah it's the backwards USA date format. 30Th September 2020 approximatly 6 month trial license for an online service that leaves your document content vulnerable to employee abuse and criminal hacker abuse.

Zen , you're not from the US are you?

Zen , Maybe, just maybe, it means the 30th of September. Just a hunch. A wild thought. Throwing it out there. I could be majorly wrong, of course, but it does make more sense than the 30th month. Ya think.... ?

Paul Wright, If you have a desktop equivilent why would you bother trialing a web application that is subject to all manner of security concerns as well as reliability and availability risks since in addition to your hardware and OS needs to remain reliable so does the web browser and their sites coding must not have been compromised behind the scene, their server or just your internet connection could go down mid edit and you lose all your changes or work. Everything in your ISP, their connection to the internet backbone and the server farms connection as well as the individual servers all need to function 100% just to be usable... a local desktop application that only relies upon your hardware operating correctly has always got to be the better solution and saving encrypted copies off in the cloud if you need offsite backups.

TK, Internet reliability isn't that bad - its not like in the 80s when you had to reset the modem every five minutes.
Encryption is pretty routine now.
I assume you don't have Internet banking or an Amazon account for fear next door will hack into your account?

TK, The desktop version is on my desktop machine. I have a laptop. My wife has a machine of her own. I sometimes work at machines at our church. The online capability is of value. It is absolutely valid to consider the security issues you surface. But those are balanced against other values. Again, I don't see security concerns with the documents that we work with. YMMV.

My Goodness They're After Me, LOL... I do use Amazon... just placed an order less than 5 mins ago but I do not use online banking because of the banks terms and conditions where the responsability is unfairly placed upon the customer and the banks pretend their systems are 100% secure and unhackable and the authentication security is also 100% uncompromisable. E.G. using emails or SMS for two factor authentication both are unencrypted and interceptable at many points and both can be spoofed by criminals. Internet is not as reliable as LAN and LAN is not as reliable as on same machine programs. You obviously do not understand the technology and have never had a *DSL connection spontaneously disconnect and resync which if you do not have a static IP will result in a need to re-authenticate a secure conenction. Or never had a server burp on you.
They are not after you... you are not that important but they may be after your money or data though!

Paul Wright, Antoher option is to use a portable teamviewer on a thumb drive to remotely login to your desktop machine with the desktop program and use that from any of the network connected machines at church or anywhere else. Then if the conenction is in anyway interupted the desktop editing session will just sit there awaiting your return :)

Jorge, Psst a 6 month trial license is NOT a lot of time.

Jorge, The biggest problem these smaller companies have (and thus a smaller IT team) is they re-use components. So instead of implementing high-grade security and investing in the latest technology, they use old libraries and methodologies for creating their software. Lets take an example that probably doesn't exist in this product. You upload a document, but it has to be stored on their server. Lets assume they do that by using a number. Eg, your user account number, and a sequential number. Your account number is 10003. Sequential number 1. You upload a document, and it gets stored as 100031. Now, it would be pretty easy to guess someone else's document would be 100021. Etc. Or lets assume they use a GUID. They're random, right? But what if they don't implement a mechanism which locks you out after trying a random GUID? If you could just throw GUIDs at the server hoping for a hit, you'll get one eventually.
Old software has many problems.