- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: July 14, 2009
- Total Downloads: 64,016
- Downloads last week: 1,133
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 64 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 11, 2009
PDF-XChange Viewer presents users with an alternative to Adobe's Acrobat Reader. With some interesting additions, it's not hard to see this reader gaining some fans over its more popular competition.
The program's interface looks and feels remarkably like Acrobat Reader, but with more command icons along the top. Users who are familiar with viewing PDFs will find this fairly intuitive, but newcomers are advised to experiment with the options and pay attention to the Help file. Viewing PDFs is incredibly simple and should not be a problem for users. The documents look good through the reader and are easily navigated. While the program is good for simply looking at PDFs, it excels with its added features. The control panel along the top displays a long list of options for editing your PDFs. The most useful we found was the option for making bright red shapes and lines, which can be utilized to mark errors and make comments (an element that has always been one of Acrobat's best tools). Here, XChange Viewer gives users more options than its competition, allowing for more in-depth markups.
This free program imitates its competition in all the right places and gives users some extra features where it counts, combining into an excellent download option for anyone looking for an alternative to Acrobat Reader.
Publisher's description
From Tracker Software Products :From the award winning authors of PDF-XChange, here is The free alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader--allows users to View Adobe compatible PDF files and perform additional functionality.
Features available include Viewing, Printing, exporting PDF's to numerous Image based file types, Page Commenting and Annotations, Type directly on a PDF page, Simple find, and Advanced Search.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 64 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.0422
"PDF-XChange Viewer Great for Basics"
Pros: I needed a PDF reader for only two uses: 1) reading PDF's and 2) selecting text to copy to the clipboard. PDF-XChange Viewer does both better than Adobe or Foxit
Cons: Have not tried anything advanced. May or may not work
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Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.0422
Pros: This exceeds what a general Free software can provide
Cons: not too much I can think of
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.0422
Pros: Everything about the tool
Cons: Toolbar icons could be make to look more professional
Summary: I just switched to using ebooks instead of textbooks for my higher studies and couldn't have found this tool at a better time. I could do everything that I could with a regular book - highlight, write notes, underline, strike out, etc. I was initial... read more >>
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Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.0422
Pros: name it get it.
Cons: bigger than foxit and sumatra
Summary: this sofware is great. but makers should concentrate on decreasing the size and including editing feature
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Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.0422
Pros: Easy to install and easy to use.
Cons: None so far
Summary: I have a secondary computer running Windows 2000. It couldn't read pdf files and I didn't want to spend the money on an Adobe program. This program reads and prints pdf documents. That's all I wanted and it didn't dissapoint.
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