- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: March 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 66,227
- Downloads last week: 1,108
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 66 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 of PDF-XChange Viewer 2.04105
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 66 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.04105
"Great pdf reader; nice markup features included FREE!"
Pros: I've long been a fan of Foxit, but now need annotation tools. After reading reviews here, I tried PDF-XChange, which loads files nearly as quickly as Foxit and also has a great array of annotation and markup tools. I'm happy!
Cons: Nothing not to like. Great program.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.04105
Pros: High resolution (equal to Adobe Reader, better than Foxit)
Markup tools: highlighting is bright yellow, for example, rather than the dishwater yellor of its rival. Typewriting on forms.Cons: Difficult to find the 64-bit version on the company's web site but they DO offer a free 64-bit version.
Summary: I keep trying others but come back to this great program with the ugly name (what's up with that?).
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Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.04105
Pros: you can write on pdf files
you can edit pdf files
excellent programCons: I like it because it offers a wide variaty of editing options.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.04105
"Easiest, most trouble-free reader loaded with features"
Pros: Tabbed open documents, easy view adjustments, easy text extraction and search, fast open and way easier than any other reader I've tried including Foxit and Adobe.
Cons: I looked hard for cons and could not find any
Summary: This is what Adobe's reader should have been but will never come close. Many included features normally only found in readers which you have to pay for - did I forget to mention that PDF-XChange Viewer is FREE!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.04105
"BestPDF Markup Tool - Bar None AND FREE"
Pros: Easy to use
Full featured
Highlight
Underline
Draw
Type Notes
Stamp
Insert PicturesCons: You cannot delete pages or insert new ones without buying the "pro" version for $30. It is still worth it. You can cheat and download PDFill and delete, re-order and merge pdf's for free.
Summary: The best thing out there to date. Get it. Try it. Love it. Every company in the world should have this software. Can bulk license the pro version for as little as $5 per license for 500 copies. ROI from paper in under a year.
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