Here’s another PDF viewer that promises an alternative to the ever-bloated Adobe Reader. We’ve already featured a great alternative in Foxit Reader but this one you might find more interesting with its more advanced features like comments and annotations which were previously found not in Reader but in the paid and expensive Acrobat Professional.

Here’s a list of PDF-XChange features:

• Add Comments and Annotations to any PDF file (subject to security settings) - unlilke the Adobe Viewer which requires the PDF creation tool to be ‘certified’ by Adobe !
• Markup pages with text and objects
• Type directly on any PDF page, not just Adobe enabled forms documents - in Typewriter mode.
• Export PDF pages or entire files to any one of the supported Image formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and many more …
• Extract text from a PDF page/File
• Make your navigation of large or complex PDF files both simple and enjoyable swith the extended functionality of our ‘Loupe’ and the ‘Pan’ Window tools
• Fill and Save Adobe Forms to disk, email or ‘post’ !
• Full Javascript Engine included
• Updated JPEG2000 Compression support - improving speed.

While it does have more features that can rival or exceed Adobe Reader, I don’t really fill out forms or edit PDF files to fully maximize its use. It really shows some great potential to be a great PDF reader alternative. But I’m still sticking to Foxit for now.

Download PDF-XChange Viewer here.

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