What is Reddit's opinion of PDF-XChange Viewer?

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I started using FoxIt, which got too bloated, and switched to Sumatra PDF. I stopped using that, however, when there was an exploit discovered in Adobe Reader that let PDFs launch a process (such as cmd.exe) if the user accidentally dismissed a dialog...in S̶u̶m̶a̶t̶r̶a̶, however, it would launch the process without any confirmation at all!

Edit: Sumatra was safe: it would display no warning, but not launch the process. It was FoxIt that displayed no warning, yet launched the unsafe process! Source.

I switched to PDF XChange Viewer, which does exactly what I need: read, copy from, and search PDFs, without any fancy features or bloat.

I warn you in advance, however, their website looks 100% like you're going to install a trojan...and it proudly displays the most mind-bogglingly poor choice of names for an apparently legitimate company: Tracker Software.

Yeah. Foxit's mediocre. PDF X-Change is where it's at. (link to my original?)

I can't agree on this matter. Even windows alternatives for PDF viewing are much better then Adobe Reader. For example if something doesn't work i use Wine + PDF-XChange Viewer which is much better then Adobe and works with wine (Adobe products tender to not work fine with Wine).

PDF Xchange. Has lots of features (the highlighter and annotation features I use a lot with the PDFs that my professors like to assign for homework). Starts quickly. Printing works well. Better than Chrome's handling of PDFs.

The MCAT is computer based, so I suggest buying the actual CBTs that are sold by AAMC/TBR. Or if you have the PDF versions (as part of a Kaplan course, of course), use this free PDF reader to actually circle and highlight passages.

(from a fellow MCAT studier)

I'm currently using PDF-XChange Viewer, which is free, lightweight, and awesome, and has a search function which looks like it does what you want.

I have all my books in pdf format. I use PDF-Exchange Viewer to annotate (highlight) my pdfs. I can also browse through all my annotations via bookmarks that are automatically created for each one. Best of all, the free version of this software has all the features that I need and it runs great in Linux (using Wine). I highly recommend it.

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

If you go and grab the PDF-XChange Viewer (you can get the free version), you can open your PDFs, then mark them up --

Click on Tools, go to Comment and Markup Tools, then click on Typewriter Tool. You can now click where you want to start typing, and type away (in a courier-type font, is what I believe it defaults to). If its in the wrong area, you can then select the Hand Tool (Tools - Basic Tools - Hand Tool) and move that text area around.

I know you can then save the PDF files, and upon reopening them in PDF-XChange the edits stay, but haven't often tried other programs to see if it crosses over programs. You could always print them out and rescan them, or mail the hard-copy, or print-to-pdf (New versions of Chrome have that built in!)

PDF-XChange is freeware/shareware. They offer a free version, but have a pro version you can pay for.

There's no reason you can't copy from a PDF, so long as your PDF software is capable and allows it. (And all of them should!)

I'd recommend the free version of PDF Xchange. In my opinion, it clobbers everything else, hands down.

Sumatra is a fast little pdf viewer which will save your latest position for the opened pdf files, for notetaking however you will need a more featureful viewer, I recommend PDF-XChange (you can toggle the UI with the F11 key to make it less bulky)

If you use the program pdf x-change and download the monster manual linked below there is a neat alphabetically organized bookmark system that I like a lot. The program also works great for the PHB, my players love it.

Pdf x-change: http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

Monster manual: http://d20.sabotender.com/5th/Source/DnD%205e%20Monsters%20Manual.pdf

It sound like PDF-XChange Viewer is the program you want to be using (recommended by Lifehacker).

Are you using the metro or desktop version of onenote?

If you insist on using onenote, you should use the desktop version. You can enable OCR to make text in PDFs and images viewable. You can either enable it globally in the settings or right click on specific images/printouts to enable it individually.

Or you know, not use Adobe software at all. PDF-Xchange Viewer is faster. This is even faster albeit less features.

http://www.ocsmag.com/2015/05/18/need-ocr-how-about-yagf/

Also this PDF viewer works perfectly in Wine, and has a really good OCR component:

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

I've not yet found a good solution using Tesseract, but YMMV. Here's a list of GUIs for it:

https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/3rdParty

First, download Calibre. It allows you to convert between various eBook formats. I use this for managing my overall library into sections such as literature, non-fiction, travel, technical, reference, comic books, etc. Calibre has an "download metadata" feature so you can grab book covers, author, publisher, and any other information that might be missing from your download. Now your library is indexed at a global level.

Since you can now switch between formats, I'd recommend something DRM-free and that's searchable. I prefer PDF since most of my read is done on medium to large screens (tablet, laptop, and desktop). Textbooks usually come in PDF format so it's less work to keep the format intact. If your PDF is not searchable, you need to run it through an OCR engine. PDF Xchange (free) is my preferred converter since it has some nice PDF options that are missing from Adobe Reader, such as highlighting, annotations, and markup. PDF Xchange will also allow you to search through the PDF based on the markups that you've added to the text.

Now you can search through the text of any PDF book you have for key phrases and words. You markup is also individually searchable. Your library is also indexed with a combination of the metatags that Calibre has automatically downloaded.

Hope that helps!

When I need JPEG's of a set of plans I publish from AutoCAD using the DWG to PDF printer. Then I use PDF-XChange Viewer to batch convert to JPEG.

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

I use PDF Xchange Viewer. It's free.

I also use it to fill out employment apps that the employers post as pdfs. It works great. Use the typewriter tool to type on the pdf, add your signature as a custom stamp, and they never know that you haven't printed it out to fill it out.

Tracker Software makes a nice free version of their software, called PDF X-Change Viewer. A bit less intuitive than Adobe reader, but it's more versatile as well. I picked it up because it was the only legit-looking free pdf editor with OCR capabilities, but it ought to be able to save your filled forms easily.

Add to that the fact that all of the full features are indeed usable in the free version, with no limitation, and the only downside is a little ad banner on each page linking their site.

Pdf Xchange Viewer

Best program that I have used for highlighting, annotating etc.

Edit: You can also rotate individual pages. Did I mention that it is free? (for the most part)

Do not use Foxit, please. It bundles ask.com crap in your install unless you're lucky enough to unclick it on install and on every upgrade of foxit.

currently using http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer, and I've seen mention of Sumatra as well. No experience with sumatra, but pdf xchange has done well by me.

I used to have Foxit Reader, but I didn't like what they did to version 5. So now I'm putting in my vote for PDF-XChange Viewer, which is pretty awesome. It's free, lightweight, has everything you need, and as a bonus it (optionally) includes some neat shell extensions.

(I'm not trying to sell it; I just find it it surprising not more people know of this)

PDF Xchange Viewer - http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

The viewer is free and it doesn't bug you ever for upgrading. No spash screens, nadda. I've been using it forever. The inbrowser stuff works too, which is nice. Super quick.

As a Firefox user, even if FF got a built-in reader, I'd disable it and use a better one, like PDF X-change. Lots of good functionality in it that's missing in Chrome's reader, and it's very fast.

I tried all the ones on this list:
http://www.TechSupportAlert.com/content/best-free-pdf-tools.htm
then went with PDF-XChange Viewer - http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
It was even able to remove a water-mark that one of the other ones had added. The free version had everything I needed.

Foxit is awesome, but for a free viewer, you're not going to find anything better than PDF-XChangeViewer

I used to use a grey-market version of Foxit (If you know what I mean) for a while, but ever since I found PDF-XChange, I'm happier with their legally free version. It does everything I want, Firefox embedding is great, and you can upgrade for more options (generally the same options available in the Adobe upgrade) if you want to.

I wonder if it works for languages other than English. I use the free PDF-Xchange Viewer (Windows) to achieve the same thing, and can choose other languages.

PDF XChange Viewer seems to be the best option, so much so that I use it in Linux via wine since. See Docear's page for an exhaustive comparison focused exactly on those features - they rate the ability to store comments in the PDF itself natively highly, if you don't care about that there is also the Mendeley reader.

I think it is because the document is encrypted.

Try to open the PDF with PDF Exchange Viewer, select File - "Document Properties..." - Security. In the pane "Document Permission Detail" state what operations are allowed.

PDF-Xchange Viewer (now superseeded by PDF-Xchange Editor, still free) is my choice over Adobe/Sumatra/Foxit.

Inkscape, GIMP have also saved my ass plenty of times. BTW Inkscape can edit PDFs.
Handbreak. Audacity.

Notepad2-mod.
Heidi SQL.
Classic Shell.
LastPass / Keepass.

As always I am a PDF X-Change viewer fanboy

With X-Change viewer there is an OCR feature for making your image of text into searchable text. Afterwards you can use the search function (it has a nice search function that lets you search several pdf documents at once, and then lets you see the excerpts of where it found the searched word or phrase).

I can't recommend CCleaner to anyone who doesn't understand what all the default settings are. Most people end up making their PC slower.

Also, Foxit is too bloated to be a good alternative to a bloated piece of software. Try PDF-Xchange Viewer

I use Chrome as my default reader and if I need more features I then use PDF XChange.

Also, check out this article:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-non-adobe-pdf-reader.htm

PDF Xchange Viewer. Always PDF Xchange Viewer.... it's the sole reason I love working with PDF documents now.

Choose the Typewriter tool!

1. Download PDFXChange Viewer.
2. Open the PDF using it. Hooray! You can scroll through all the pages!
3. Save the PDF as a new file. Delete the old file and remove PDFXChange, because you'll be able to open the saved file in Adobe Reader with no problems.

This error occurs because Adobe software is incredibly finicky about PDF "standards" and will sometimes choke when it opens a PDF made by some program that doesn't comply to those standards. Alternative readers such as PDFXChange don't care about them, but will fix the issues upon saving.

Probably too late for anyone to see, but I personally use PDF-XChange Viewer.

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

It seems fast, less bloated than Acrobat Reader, and also has a native 64-bit application (that's a huge bonus for me).

Tracker's PDF-XChange has the tools that you need and it renders really well, too; in fact, I've been using it for years in place of Adobe's reader...

What's probably more important is to figure out which programs are running in the background and/or run at startup. Figure out what they are and see if you can remove those items.

BTW, PDF-XChange Viewer can be used instead of Adobe reader. There are also other free PDF viewers too.

Yeah. Foxit's mediocre. PDF X-Change is where it's at. You know those forms in PDF format, that won't let you save the form digitally with entered form data? Doesn't that just piss you off? It's like Adobe Reader is just chillin' in your computer, saying "kiiiiiillllll treeeeees... prrriiiiiiinnnnt bulllllshit.... deal with stacks of paper in your otherwise clean and tidy home..."

PDF X-Change doesn't give a shit whether or not a form wants to be saved with or without form data -- it does it anyways. It's pretty badass. :D

Tracker Software's PDF Xchange Viewer portable is ~16MB. It rendered some types of PDF files better than Foxit and SumatraPDF several years ago.

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer