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• PDF Reader and Converter •
Cool PDF and Sumatra PDF Viewer
The focus 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. Some Features of both Viewers: Open, view, print, fullscreen, rotate, zoom in and out.
Sumatra PDF Viewer runs under Windows 2000 - 7, is Open Source Software and more than 50 languages are already integrated.
Advanced Feature: LaTeX preview!
View some Screenshots to get an impression.
Version 1.0.1 Downloads: Archive (1.61 MB) Setup (1.66 MB)
Visit the Sumatra PDF Homepage and the Support Forum if you need help.
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.
Download and run: Version 3.0.0.128 (651 KB).
Download and install: Setup file (905 KB).
Visit the Homepage of Cool PDF Reader.
Some other PDF Viewers (mostly for UNIX based systems):
For Windows, Linux, OpenBSD and Mac OS X: MuPDF
For Linux with GTK+: ePDFViewer
Integrated under Linux with GNOME: Evince
Integrated under Linux with KDE: Okular
For UNIX/Linux based systems: Xpdf
Alternate PDF Viewer for MAC OS X: Skim
Foxit Reader
Also a good and free Reader but it's already a bit bigger in size as the two Readers presented above but you can use it on USB flash drives like pen-sticks as well. Sure, you can download, unzip and run it immediately without installation on hard drives, too (recommended by me ;) ) if you want. Open, view, save and print PDF files in a fast and and convenient way. Some features of the Pro Pack are integrated and you can e.g. edit PDF files but: Screenshot. You can select between more than 30 languages thru Tools - Preferences - Languages, download your language or search within the Forum for the newest file. It supports also Eastern Languages character sets for Chinese, Japanese and Korean thru an Add-on. You can install Add-ons like a PDF printer (evaluation marks) thru Help - Check for Updates (could take some time) or download the desired file and install it thru Help - Install Updates. If you download and install thru the Reader, highlight the addons first and read (carefully) the text which will be displayed in the box below the listed addons! Foxit Reader is free for private, non-commercial use only!
For Windows 98 - 7 (32/64-bit). View a Screenshot.
Downloads (Portable: just under 5 MB, Setup: just under 7 MB): Developer
Download Foxit Reader for Linux and U3 Smart Drives.
If you need help, please visit the Support Forum!
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.
View a Screenshot to get an impression.
Setup (approx. 19 MB) and Portable (approx. 6.18 MB): Developers download page.
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 jpg or png 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.
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!
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 multiple languages integrated and support for 32-bit and 64-bit for Windows OS:
FreePDF - (less than 2 MB, für 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 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.
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.
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.
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 good PDF file editor (UNIX/Linux (QT3) and Windows): PDFedit
Tip 1: 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!
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 maybe use other preferences for line heights and margins. In that case there will be a compatibility problem or your file has much more line breaks on other computers. 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. 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
The required printer driver Version 9.2 (2.53 MB).
The required converter Version 1.3 (9.14 MB).
Download pdfEdit995 Version 9.7 (1.28 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!
Windows NT - 7, 32/64-bit: Download (1.62 MB).
Download (946 KB) WinPDF for Windows NT/2000/XP and (maybe) later.
Freeware for personal use only. The Homepage of WinPDF.
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