• PDF Reader and Converter •
Cool PDF and Sumatra PDF Viewer
The purpose is to provide small and fast Readers with default features like: Fullscreen, rotate, zoom in and out, view and print PDF files. Optimal for your hard drives cause they start up very fast, a very good choice for USB flash drives and the very best choice for old, small sized USB pendrives.
Sumatra PDF Viewer runs under Windows 2000 - 7, is Open Source Software and more than 50 languages are already integrated. Advanced Feature: LaTeX preview!
Screenshots: Windows XP Windows 7
Downloads (Setup and Portable): Developer
Visit the Support Forum if you need help.
Though the content of the Zip-Archive is already portable (simply extract it to a folder of your USB flash drive), you can get SumatraPDF also from PortableApps.
Cool PDF Viewer runs under Windows 98 - 7, Server editions (Windows 2000 and newer), 32/64-bit and is Freeware. Advanced Feature: Fullscreen Slideshow and save PDF files as TXT, EPS, PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, EMF and WMF. Simply click on File - Save as and select the desired format.
View a Screenshot to get a picture.
Downloads (Setup and Portable): Developer.
Some other PDF Viewers (mostly for UNIX based systems):
For Windows, Linux, OpenBSD and Mac OS X: MuPDF
Gnostice Free PDF Reader for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
For Windows and integrated under Linux with GNOME: Evince Screenshot
Get Evince for portable media (Windows and UNIX/Linux with Wine).
For Linux with GTK+: ePDFView Screenshot
Integrated under Linux with KDE: Okular
For UNIX/Linux based systems: Xpdf
Alternate PDF Viewer for MAC OS X: Skim
PDF-XChange Viewer
PDF-XChange Viewer is also a very good and free PDF-Reader with a lot of functions.
PDF-XChange Viewer runs under Windows 2000 and later.
Screenshots: Reader/Preferences Preferences
Setup (approx. 20 MB) and Portable (approx. 8 MB): Developer
Firefox Add-ons
PDF Download saves web pages directly as pdf and more.
Here is a Screenshot to have a look.
Works with: Firefox, Flock, IE, Safari and Google Chrome.
pdfit converts web pages or the visible parts to jpg or png and the image to pdf.
Works with: Firefox under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
mozplugger is a plug-in for Firefox and other Mozilla based browsers under UNIX/Linux. It opens video, pdf and other media files directly within the browser.
Browser plug-ins for MAC OS X by colesbury and M. Schubert.
PDFCreator (Open Source)
With the help of PDFCreator you can create Postscript and image files (PDF, PS, EPS, JPG, PNG, BMP, PSD, TIFF and PCX) from nearly every program that supports printing. You can also encrypt, sign, send files directly via eMail, protect and merge multiple PDF files to only one file. Ghostscript is not required! Who doesn't like toolbars, should uncheck the toolbar installation during setup but you can also uninstall only the toolbar at anytime!
Compatible with Windows 9x - 7 (32/64-bit) and Terminal Server.
Look what you can do with PDFCreator: Screenshots
Visit the Homepage to download (approx. 18 MB) PDFCreator. More than 30 language files are also available and more than 20 languages are already integrated, double click and check the setup file to see if your language is available.
Guides and examples for creating macros for Excel and print single and multiple Worksheets to single and multiple PDF files with PDFCreator: Exelguru
Three other free solutions with a lot of integrated languages and support for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Operatimg Systems which installs also virtual printer drivers:
FreePDF - (less than 2 MB, for Windows 2000 - 7) requires Ghostscript (ca. 16 MB) and is therefore a little bit larger in size (both downloads) as PDFCreator. FreePDF is also a really good PDF converter with MultiDoc feature which let you merge single files to only one file and you can extend it with e.g. Pdftk (some rows below). The Homepage is sadly not truly available in English. There is only a link to a machine translated page thru Babelfish but the program is truly available in English and 15 other languages. No ads in created PDF files!
doPDF (less than 5 MB, Windows 2000 - 7,) doesn't require Ghostscript and is adequate if you want not much more than printing PDF files from e.g. M$ Word. Approx. 20 languages are supported and there will be no ads in created PDF files!
Bullzip PDF Printer - (less than 5 MB, Windows 2000 - 7) requires Ghostscript (approx. 16 MB) but there is a light weight version of Ghostscript available thru System Requirements on the BullZip PDF Printer page. The features are nearly the same as the ones of PDFCreator and more than 40 languages are integrated. No ads in created PDF files!
PDF Editors for UNIX/Linux and other systems:
PDFedit - Good PDF file editor for UNIX/Linux/QT3.x and Windows 32/64-bit.
Pdftk - Free and powerful PDF Editor (command line) for Linux based operating systems, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows.
Available GUIs: PDFTK Builder for Windows.
A portable edition of PDFTK Builder: PortableApps.com
GUIPDFTK for Linux and Windows.
PDF-Shuffler let you split, merge and re-arrange pdf files under Linux (also portable).
PdfMod - Modify your PDF documents under Linux (also portable) and FreeBSD.
PDFedit, Pdftk, PDF-Shuffler and PdfMod are available within the repositories of Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and all other Debian based systems which are using the Debian or Ubuntu reps. Installation via Software Center, Synaptic or Adept. Under openSUSE you can install PDFedit, Pdftk and PdfMod via Yast and i think packages are available within the reps of other systems, too.
Tip 1: Use the LibreOffice suite! This way you can create PDF files from your documents and images without installing extra software, you'll have a good and free Office Suite and also no ads within the generated PDF files!
Tip 2: If you want to send job applications via eMail, don't send your Office documents! Create PDF files and send them, maybe others have different Office applications as you have or if they have the same, they may use other monitor resolutions. In that case there will be a compatibility problem or your file has much more line breaks. With PDF files there will be no problem!
 It's really great! No sponsor message appears within the pdf file, it will only appear in your web browser when you use the software. Who doesn't like that should download one of the above featured solutions which doesn't work with browser ads! First install the printer driver and the converter on your systems to convert your documents, images ... to pdf. In addition you can download pdfEdit995 (free) to edit your pdf files. Combine and extract PDF pages with Signature995 (also free) which supports restricted printing, modifying and copying of text and images. Ghostscript is not required!
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 9x - 7, Citrix/Terminal Servers (configured as shared network printer).
Get a picture of this great tools: Screenshot
Download the required printer driver.
Download the required converter.
Get pdfEdit995 in addition.
Get Signature995 in addition.
Many thanks to Software995 for the direct downloads!
WinPDF
WinPDF installs a file (Easy PDF Creator) which works as it were a real printer. You don't need Ghostscript! Create PDF files from any application that supports printing. Convert images, documents and more to PDF files an send them per email. Only a small line for the paied Version with link will be inserted on the bottom of each PDF document. Who doesn't like that should download one of the above featured solutions which doesn't insert such lines!
For Windows NT - 7, 32/64-bit.
Freeware for personal use only!
Download WinPDF: Developer.
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