Monday, March 17, 2008

Free or Cheap Software Part 1 - Logiciels gratuits ou pas cher

Greetings!


Today, I am posting my first entry on free or cheap alternatives to many expensive software packages. This entry will be about PDF files. Here are a few alternatives to Abobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader.



  • CutePDF: Great tool to create and manipulate PDF files. Does not support links in the document.

  • Foxit: Very compact viewer (free) and has a paid-for sibling for PDF manipulation.

  • PDF-XChange: Great viewer with 64bit support (free). Has several paid-for siblings for PDF manipulation.

  • PDF995: Has the potential to do everything that Abobe Acrobat can do for much cheaper.


I use CutePDF to create my PDF files and have used the viewer versions of Foxit and PDF-XChange to wonderful results. I want to test PDF995 to see if I should use it for my creation and editing needs. More to come...



Bonjour!


Aujourd'hui, je comence une série d'articles sur les alternatives gratuites et pas cher de logiciels bien connus avec PDF comme focus pour celui-ci. Voici quelques alternatives à Adobe Acrobat et Adobe Reader:


CutePDF: Great tool to create and manipulate PDF files. Does not support links in the document.
Foxit: Very compact viewer (free) and has a paid-for sibling for PDF manipulation.
PDF-XChange: Great viewer with 64bit support (free). Has several paid-for siblings for PDF manipulation.
PDF995: Has the potential to do everything that Abobe Acrobat can do for much cheaper.


J'utilise présentement CutePDF pour créer mes PDF et les manipuler. J'ai installé sur quelques postes les viewers Foxit et PDF-XChange et leurs performance vs. Adobe Reader est vraiment spectaculaire. Je vais essayer PDF995 pour voir s'il me donne plus que CutePDF en matière de création et modification de mes PDF.

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