{"id":3593,"date":"2009-09-24T17:51:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2009-09-13T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:42:40","slug":"best-pdf-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/24\/best-pdf-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Best PDF reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the repeated announcement of (minor) incidents with the security of the original PDF reader from Adobe, I wondered what could be a good replacement. Obviously, it seems important to stay around free or low prices (Adobe Acrobat: Windows\/Mac\/Linux, Basic: free, Pro: $299), but is it possible to beat the Adobe product to read PDF files?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docu-track.com\/home\/prod_user\/PDF-XChange_Tools\/pdfx_viewer\/\">PDF-XChange<\/a> (Windows, Basic: free, Pro: $34): loads real fast (much faster than the Adobe viewer), has all the basic options (annotations, graphic annotations, etc.) and the Pro version allows to reorganize the pages of a document or to extract text from it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/\">Foxit<\/a> (Windows\/Linux, Basic: free, Pro Pack: $39.99): loads even faster, allows annotations (but only the Pro versio does it without watermark).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kowalczyk.info\/software\/sumatrapdf\/download.html\">Sumatra PDF<\/a> (Windows, free): is even simple; everything is done for sheer speed.<\/li>\n<li>Apple PDF Preview (Mac, free): is very powerful (and it&#8217;s free, remember) and included in the MacOS offering; annotations, extraction, reorganization, all is available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the repeated announcement of (minor) incidents with the security of the original PDF reader from Adobe, I wondered what could be a good replacement. Obviously, it seems important to stay around free or low prices (Adobe Acrobat: Windows\/Mac\/Linux, Basic: free, Pro: $299), but is it possible to beat the Adobe product to read PDF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,15,10,3,34,1040,16],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-books","category-legal-downloads","category-linux","category-software","category-tech","category-windows-7","category-vista","tag-pdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}