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• PDF Reader and converter •
 Open, view, save and print PDF files for free. You don't have to download a large file of 20 MB or more. Download, unzip and run it immediately without installation (recommended). It supports also Eastern Languages character sets for Chinese, Japanese and Korean if you download an additional file and you can select between over 30 languages. Foxit Reader is free for private use only!
For Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.
Screenshot
Version 3.0 Build 1817: Archive (2.99 MB) Installer (3.57 MB).
Thanx to Foxit Software for the direct downloads!
Download Foxit Reader for Linux and U3 Smart Drives.
If you need help, please visit the Support Forum!
Other PDF Viewers for UNIX based systems:
For Linux with GTK+: ePDFViewer
Integrated under Linux with GNOME: Evince
For UNIX/Linux based systems: Xpdf
Alternate PDF Viewer for MAC OS X: Skim
Cool PDF Viewer and Sumatra PDF Viewer
Two very small and fast PDF Viewers! Optimal for the usage on (even small sized) USB pendrives.
Cool PDF Viewer runs under Windows 2000, XP, Vista, all Server editions and is Freeware. Features: Fullscreen Slideshows, rotate, zoom in and out, view and print PDF files, save PDF files as TXT, EPS, PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, EMF and WMF.
View a Screenshot to get a picture.
Download and run: Version 2.0.0.99 (626 KB).
Download and install: Setup file (901 KB).
Additional Download: PDF Bundle (also Freeware) from CoolPDF Software Inc. can attach files to existing PDF files.
Visit the Homepage of Cool PDF Reader to get setup files.
Sumatra PDF Viewer runs under Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and is Open Source Software.
View a Screenshot to get an impression.
Version 0.9.3 Downloads: Archive (1.15 MB) Setup (1.19 MB)
Visit the Sumatra PDF Homepage to get setup files and support.
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 under Windows, Linux and MAC.
pdfit converts web pages or the visible parts to the jpg or png image format and the generated 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.
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/XP/2003/Vista.
View a Screenshots to get an impression.
Download Version 2.042 (5.69 MB) directly here.
You can get a setup file on the PDF-XChange Viewer Homepage if you want but it's approx. 17 MB large and (sure) you can run the Portable from hard disk, too. ;)
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 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!
Compatible with Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Terminal Server.
Look what you can do with PDFCreator: Screenshots
Go to the PDFCreator Homepage and download PDFCreator 0.9.8 (16.67 MB). 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.
Two other free and smaller solutions with multi-language interface and 64-bit support for Windows OS:
Bullzip PDF Printer (approx. 4 MB), requires Ghostscript.
doPDF (less than 2 MB) doesn't require Ghostscript.
Pdftk - Powerful command line PDF Editor for Linux, FreeBSD, MAC, Solaris and Windows.
Available GUIs: PDFTK Builder for Windows.
GUIPDFTK for Linux and Windows.
A portable edition of PDFTK Builder: PortableApps.com
Another powerful PDF file editor (UNIX/Linux, QT3): PDFedit
Tip: Use the OpenOffice.org suite! This way you can create PDF files from your documents and images without installing extra software and you will have a good and free Office Suite!
 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. 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 with advanced support for combining and extracting PDF pages and Signature995 (free) with support for restricted printing, modifying, copying text and images. Ghostscript is not required!
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Citrix/Terminal Servers (configured as shared network printer).
Get a picture of this great tools: Screenshot
The required printer driver Version 9.2 (2.53 MB).
The required converter Version 1.3 (9.14 MB).
Download pdfEdit995 Version 9.3 (1.26 MB) in addition.
Download Signature995 Version 9.0 (487 KB) 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. Does that matter? I think no!
For Windows 98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Server 2003.
Download (738 KB) WinPDF Version 1.00
Freeware for personal use only. The
Homepage of WinPDF.
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