Foxit PDF Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
In the past, you’ve had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Moreover, if you want to annotate a PDF document, you have to pay US$299 to buy certain software.
Now with Foxit Reader, you don’t have to endure such pain any more. The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader:
- Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is just a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
- Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
- Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
- Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
- High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users’ permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.
Download: Foxit Reader 3.2
The BullZip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.
This program is FREEWARE which means that it is FREE for personal and commercial use. It does not contain any advertising or popups (Really!).
Features
· Print to PDF from almost any Windows program.
· Direct output to the same file each time or prompt for destination.
· Control if the printer should ask if you want to see the resulting PDF document.
· Control output and prompts programmatically.
· Setup can run unattended.
System Requirements
· Runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/XP x64/2003/2003 x64/Vista/Vista x64/2008/Windows 7.
· GPL Ghostscript (Ghostscript is an open source program that is able to convert PostScript to PDF files. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License).
Download: BullZip PDF Printer 7.1.0.1159
Those Wishing to View/Modify PDF files on their Windows PC’s now have a FREE alternative !
The PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than any other FREE PDF Reader/Viewer available. This version also allows users to try the extended functionality offered by the PDF-XChange Viewer ‘PRO’ in evaluation mode – for free.
The FREE version may be used for both Private and Commercial use.
Download: PDF-XChange Viewer Free 2.048
Freeware. Lightweight. Ad free.
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.
Works on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008/2003/2000 Server (32 and 64-bit).
Download: doPDF 7.1.330
novaPDF is a pdf creator for Windows that allows you to easily create professional quality documents in industry-standard PDF file format.
Using novaPDF, everyone from novice users to professionals, can instantly create high-quality searchable PDF files, by simply selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can save your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or perhaps your emails and favorite web sites, into easy to share PDF files.
This pdf creator gives you the ability to fully make use of all its advanced features: PDF resolution, PDF information, compression, security, profiles, shared network printing, PDF links and more. It is compatible with any PDF viewer/editor not to mention the widely known Adobe Reader.
novaPDF is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows 7.
Download: novaPDF Lite 7.0.330
PDF Reader is a free program to view, modify and print pdf files. It is very small, only about 4 MByte to download and will fit on one disk. You can open, view, zoom and print PDF files. You can also modify pdf files (but you can not save them in the free version). You can add, change and delete text and pictures and print it out.
Download: PDF Reader 3.0
Create PDF documents on the fly for Free!
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a “printer subsystem”. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents – with just a push of a button!
Free for commercial and non-commercial use. No watermarks. No Popup Web Ads.
Installation Requirements
- Supports Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 (x86/x64).
- Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript (recommended).
Download: CutePDF Writer 2.8.0.3
7-PDF Maker – The Freeware PDF Creator for Windows 7, Vista and XP.
7-PDF Make is a freeware PDF Creator for Windows.
7-PDF Maker creates and converts documents to PDF for free! Whether at home or office – easily create high quality PDF files.
DOC -> PDF, DOCX -> PDF, PPT -> PDF, PPTX -> PDF, XLS -> PDF, XLSX -> PDF, ODT -> PDF, ODS -> PDF, ODP -> PDF, RTF -> PDF, HTML -> PDF, TXT -> PDF, JPG -> PDF, GIF -> PDF, PNG -> PDF, TIFF -> PDF, EPS -> PDF, PSD -> PDF, BMP -> PDF, WMF -> PDF, and more.
Features
· 7-PDF Maker is not a PDF printer and also does not require GhostScript
· Create hyperlink indexed and tagged PDF files
· PDF with 128-bit password encryption
· Windows-Explorer Shell Integration
· Command Line Version / PDF Batch Converter
· Sumatra PDF Viewer can be optionally integrated
· Supports German and English
· Manual in German and English
Download: 7-PDF Maker 1.0.4
Adobe Reader Lite is a bloat-free version of the popular PDF viewer, Adobe Reader, originally brought to you by Shark007, the creator of Vista Codec Package.
Download: Adobe Reader Lite 9.3.0.30
Since PDF files entered the IT world, a lot of things changed to benefit from them. Business reports, emails, invoices, ebooks and even personal documents became influenced by this new file format. Users started to convert files to PDF to benefit from features like smaller size, high portability and powerful security. Adolix Split and Merge PDF is freeware software that can be used to manage the resulting PDF files after creation. Using our product you can split PDF documents into multiple files following a customized pattern. The question how to merge PDF files now has an answer: using this free application you can combine PDF files into a single document.
Benefits
- Use our product to split PDF without any cost
- Combine PDF files into a single document
- You can even append encrypted PDF files to another PDF
- Split PDF files using a customized pattern (similar to Word printing)
- Process password protected PDF files
- Benefit from 24/7 support (even if Adolix Split and Merge PDF is freeware).
- Fully compatible with Windows 7.
Download: Adolix Split & Merge PDF 1.8
Easily view, print, and collaborate on PDF files with free Adobe Reader software
Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.
Operating system: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, Pocket PC, Palm OS.
Download: Adobe Reader 9.3
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.
Key Features:
· Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
· Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
· Send generated files via eMail
· Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
· AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
· Merge multiple files into one PDF
· Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
· Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
· And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
· Supports Windows Vista and Windows 7
Download: PDFCreator 0.9.9
PDF Split and Merge – A free open source tool to split and merge pdf documents.
PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam) is an open source tool (GPL license) designed to handle pdf files. It’s released in 2 versions, basic and enhanced.
PDF Split and Merge basic:
A simple tool designed to split and merge pdf files. With it’s simple and intuitive interface you can:
· split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.).
· merge many pdf documents or subsections of them.
· extract sections of your document into a single pdf document.
· mix alternate pages taken from two pdf documents in straight or reverse order into a single document.
· rotate pages of the selected pdf documents.
· visually reorder pages of a selected pdf document.
· visually compose a document dragging pages from selected pdf documents.
· save and load your environment to automatize your recurrent jobs.
· manage pdfsam settings and set an environment to load at start up.
PDF Split and Merge enhanced:
This is the enhanced version of pdfsam. In this version you’ll find all the basic features plus:
· encrypt your pdf files (RC40 bits, RC128 bits, AES128 bits) and set permissions on them.
· add a pdf frontpage or an addendum (or both) to your pdf documents.
· decrypt pdf documents.
· extract attachments from your pdf documents.
· set viewer options to a document to tell the viewer application how should open the document.
· set the metadata of a document (author, title, subject and keywords).
Requirements:
· pdfsam branch 1: Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or higher
· pdfsam branch 2: Java Virtual Machine 1.6 or higher
Runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Download: PDF Split and Merge 2.1.0
Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows.
Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features.
It’s small and starts up very fast.
It’s designed for portable use: it’s just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive.
Download: Sumatra PDF 1.0.1
Convert to PDF from any application by simply ‘printing’ to the PrimoPDF printer – it couldn’t be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and virtually any other printable file type.
PrimoPDF is the web’s #1 free software for creating 100% industry-standard PDF files. Simple to use and free of annoying ads, converting files to PDF has never been easier!
· Completely free PDF creator – Create PDF files from 300+ file types.
· Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print.
· Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.
Runs on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista (64-bit included).
Download: PrimoPDF 5.0.0.19
Zilla PDF to TXT Converter – Freeware!
Zilla PDF to TXT Converter is a freeware to convert pdf files to plain text format files in batch mode. Zilla PDF to TXT Converter also support convert specific pages range to txt files.
Download: Zilla PDF to TXT Converter 1.0.6
Like EndNote, but social and free. Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop & web.
Mendeley Desktop is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital bibliography. It gathers document details from your PDFs allowing you to effortlessly search, organize and cite. It also looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs and other related document details automatically. Drag and drop functionality makes populating the library quick and easy. The bookmarklet allows you to quickly and easily import papers from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE and many more at the click of a button.
Collaborate with fellow researchers and share information, resources and experiences with shared and public collections. Your research team will have easy access to each others papers. Just create a group, invite your colleagues and drag and drop documents in there. This way you can keep on top of what they’re reading and discover more about what interests you.
Through the Mendeley research network you can connect with other researchers in your field. This opens up a whole new avenue for knowledge discovery. You can view the most read authors, journals and papers in your field. You can explore by using tags associated with your research area. By navigating the web of knowledge available to you, you make some useful contacts along the way too. In addition to that, you can also view interesting statistics about your own digital library.
Available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
Download: Mendeley Desktop 0.9.2.1 Beta
Speed up your Acrobat Reader to being lightning fast!
PDF SpeedUp allows you to significantly speed up the time it takes to load Adobe Reader. If you notice that when the Reader starts it loads many plug-ins which you may or may not need, this program simply disables the plug-ins and loads only the absolute necessary ones so the program starts quickly. It offers several options and you can also manually enable or disable the plug-ins as needed. PDF SpeedUp works with Acrobat versions 5 through 9. Multi-lingual interface.
Download: PDF SpeedUp 2.01
Powerful PDF Document Management Tools for your Desktop.
Benubird PDF is a free personal document manager for home and business users — providing an easy way to archive, manage and retrieve your PDF documents.
Optimized for use with PDFs, images, and Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents. Advanced PDF support, powerful filters, browsing and search — Benubird PDF has got it all.
Benubird PDF is now totally free.
Platform: Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Download: Benubird PDF 1.4.0.1
PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to the Windows version of PDFTK making it much easier to use.
Collate – allows you to rearrange (reorder, delete, & duplicate) pages in a single document and/or merge pages from multiple PDF documents. Multiple documents will be merged in the order they are listed in the ‘Source Documents’ window. If page ranges are not specified, PDFTK Builder will assume all pages for that document are to be included. Page ranges can be indicated by using a single page number, or a hyphen between start and end pages, and reversed page orders are also allowed. Multiple ranges are indicated by using commas or semi-colons between ranges. Collate can be used to remove pages from a single document simply by specifying the page ranges you wish to retain for that document. Collate can also be used to insert pages from one pdf document into another.
Example:- if you wished to insert pages from one document into the middle of another, then the primary document would need to be listed twice: once before the insertion document, listing pages to appear before; and once after, listing pages to appear after the the insertion document.
Split – allows you to separate each page of a PDF document into its own file.
Background or Stamp – ‘Background’ enables you to add a background to each page in a document or just the first page. The ‘background’ (eg a company logo, or a ‘draft’ watermark) must be another PDF document (the first page of that document if it has more than one page). ‘Stamp’ is very similar to ‘background’ except that the ’stamp’ is placed on top of the source document.
Rotate – ‘Rotate’ enables you to rotate a range of pages in a document.
Password Protection: The new document can be password protected (encrypted) by providing ‘owner’ and ‘user’ passwords. The ‘owner’ password does not stop users from reading the document, but it does restrict the actions that users can perform on that document – printing, copying, decrypting etc. Specifying a ‘user’ password will stop anyone without either ‘user’ or ‘owner’ passwords from opening and reading the document.
Download: PDFTK Builder 3.6
A free toolbox of PDF utilities – Edit PDF properties, merges PDFs and convert PDFs to images.
Quick PDF Tools is a free Windows utility built using Debenu’s Quick PDF Library for working with PDF files.
After installation, Quick PDF Tools is accessible from the context-menu in Windows Explorer. Simply right-click on a PDF and select the ‘Quick PDF Tools’ menu item to see a list of all the available features.
Features
· PDF Preview – right-click on a PDF document and view the first page instantly.
· Edit the Title, Author, Subject and Keywords property fields of single or multiple PDFs at the same time.
· Edit the initial view for PDFs on your desktop without opening them.
· Add and remove open passwords on PDF documents.
· Merge all selected PDFs together effortlessly.
· Convert images to PDFs.
· Convert PDF to image – creates a folder, and stores each PDF page as a JPEG.
· Extract text from a PDF and save it to a .txt file.
· Remove all bookmarks in a PDF with one click.
· Extremely easy-to-use and quick to load.
Quick PDF Tools is 100% free. No charge, no ads — just free.
Download: Quick PDF Tools 1.4.0.1
