Alternatives to Acrobat

jimauburn · 07-04-2010, 08:50 AM

The full Acrobat product is too expensive for me. Are there reliable alternatives?

jcjacob · 07-04-2010, 09:21 AM

There are several good alternatives out there for creating and editing PDFs. These are a few popular products:

Nitro PDF Software -Create & Edit PDF Files

Foxit Software - Foxit PDF Editor

JDtech · 07-04-2010, 09:41 AM

There are lots of alternatives to purchasing Acrobat. Many have reported satisfaction with PrimoPDF, which bills itself as the world's number one PDF creator. Bullzip, however, also gets favorable reviews, as does CutePDF.

Many alternative PDF writers lack the bells and whistles of Adobe's Acrobat product-- such as add-on toolbars and menus--but some prefer doing without these. Many of them also will not allow you to manipulate your PDF creations in ways that Adobe's product will. For instance, deleting or re-ordering pages of a created PDF document is often not possible. However, if what you want to do is simply save a document as a PDF file, one of these alternatives will likely suffice.

Jon Foster · 07-04-2010, 01:56 PM

There are a lot of packages out there now. I use Ubuntu Linux for a lot of things. The built in ability to create basic pdf files in most applications I use is nice.

Jon.

jimauburn · 07-04-2010, 05:57 PM

Thanks all, this gives me some things to look at.

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JDtech Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 308 Blog Entries: 1	There are lots of alternatives to purchasing Acrobat. Many have reported satisfaction with PrimoPDF, which bills itself as the world's number one PDF creator. Bullzip, however, also gets favorable reviews, as does CutePDF. Many alternative PDF writers lack the bells and whistles of Adobe's Acrobat product-- such as add-on toolbars and menus--but some prefer doing without these. Many of them also will not allow you to manipulate your PDF creations in ways that Adobe's product will. For instance, deleting or re-ordering pages of a created PDF document is often not possible. However, if what you want to do is simply save a document as a PDF file, one of these alternatives will likely suffice.

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Jon Foster Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: White Lake, MI Posts: 149	There are a lot of packages out there now. I use Ubuntu Linux for a lot of things. The built in ability to create basic pdf files in most applications I use is nice. Jon.

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jimauburn Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 10	Thanks all, this gives me some things to look at.