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So, what pdf reader app is your fav?
TaoPhoenix:
Looping this thread into the other one, PDF Exchange Editor seems to me to be the ones to beat now. And I'm about to do a thread on the "best of Freemium" where the free version is *really solid*, and then if the Pro version has any stunning "killer app" extras.
I'm using Motion12's list as a big test after doing a nice multi part crop-merge myself as a proof of concept. I took a medical document, and did "extract pages 1-3,18-20 and save as a single file" perfectly.
This is where "speed" becomes to me absolutely silly of a criterion. If I am gonna end up with a PDF at all, I wanna then get some work done. 2 seconds faster loading isn't worth wasting my time on a viewer.
dr_andus:
Kami - Chrome plugin PDF (and other documents) viewer/mark-up tool. Love it and use it every day.
-c.gingerich (August 26, 2015, 01:33 PM)
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+1 for Kami Premium, though I only use it in Chrome OS (except when I need to work across multiple platforms on the same file, for which it is also great). On Windows I prefer PDF XChange Editor Pro.
Looping this thread into the other one, PDF Exchange Editor seems to me to be the ones to beat now. And I'm about to do a thread on the "best of Freemium" where the free version is *really solid*, and then if the Pro version has any stunning "killer app" extras.
-TaoPhoenix (September 02, 2015, 06:40 AM)
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Agreed (about the speed point as well), PDF XChange Editor Pro is great. But I found the PDF XChange Printer Lite 2012 (that used to be freely packaged with it) inferior to CutePDF Writer, when it comes to printing image-heavy Word docs of over 300 pages. In fact none of my other PDF printers (MS Word's own, Adobe PDF, SmartDraw) were able to handle it, so kudos to the free CutePDF!
tomos:
I found the PDF XChange Printer Lite 2012 (that used to be freely packaged with it) inferior to CutePDF Writer, when it comes to printing image-heavy Word docs of over 300 pages. In fact none of my other PDF printers (MS Word's own, Adobe PDF, SmartDraw) were able to handle it, so kudos to the free CutePDF!
-dr_andus (September 02, 2015, 10:18 AM)
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that is impressive :up:
I have used PDFCreator (via sourceforge) to make some very image heavy PDFs - either with *very* large images, or multiple (50+) high-quality (300dpi) images.
I can highly recommend it - but NOTE that it used come with OpenCandy additional installs (I havent updated it in a good while so out of touch with current status that way).
EDIT//
PS the PDF Creator software has an 'ad-free' version for business @ 3.50€ or 5US$
Not sure do they mean the Open Candy or do they show ads somehow :-/
Curt:
PDFCreator (via sourceforge) -tomos (September 02, 2015, 10:26 AM)
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My Firefox 40 won't open http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfarchitect or http://www.pdfforge.org/blog, but claims these pages contain invalid compression (?) or something in that area. I refuse to apply for membership just to inform the company.
However, my reason for visiting the company in the first place was to recall, how you can build your own pdf application with PDF Architect (the PRO shareware version of PDFCreator)! But what's the point if one can't reach the http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfarchitect page. Can you?
tomos:
what's the point if one can't reach the http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfarchitect page. Can you?
-Curt (September 02, 2015, 11:22 AM)
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no problems here... FF 40.0.3
Are you using uBlock Origin ?
That was blocking sourceforge pages a while back. I removed it at the time and changed to uBlock (without the 'Origin').
PS I havent used the 'Architect' software.
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