March 25, 2013
Adobe Reader isn’t just unnecessary – it has a history of being an application you wouldn’t want on your system. From being extremely heavy and slow to having a long series of security flaws, Adobe Reader has never been a very good application for the average user. Adobe Reader’s speed and security have improved recently, but they haven’t improved enough. You probably don’t need Adobe Reader installed at all.
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December 11, 2012
Of all the default applications that come with the Mac OS X operating system, Preview might be the one I use the most. As picture viewers (and PDF readers) come, it’s an amazingly slick and powerful tool, doing everything you’d come to expect, and then some. That’s one of the most crucial issues with these [...]
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November 24, 2012
When it comes to distributing forms and other information over the Internet, the file type of choice tends to be PDF. This file type is popular because it has decent compression rates, can prevent editing, allows for interesting visual elements, and allows interactivity (especially when it comes to filling out forms on the computer). Thankfully, there are plenty of applications all over the web which can read these files.
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October 19, 2012
PDFSam, short for “PDF Split and Merge,” is a great utility for quick PDF editing. You can combine multiple PDF documents into a single PDF document, split a PDF into multiple files, extract pages from a PDF, reorder the pages in a file, or create a new PDF file that contains pages from multiple files. If you want to do some basic PDF splitting, merging, and reordering, PDFSam is the application for you.
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October 5, 2012
Docudesk, developer of several PDF creation and editing solutions, has unveiled a new browser-based .PDF document editor called PDF Zen. Users can use the service to accomplish common editing tasks for free and share them with others.
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June 29, 2012
Most people don’t stop to think about the PDF reader they install – they just install Adobe Reader. Adobe's PDF Reader isn’t the only option, though – there are quite a few high-quality, free PDF viewers available for Windows. Some applications even include features you won't find in Adobe Reader, such as easy creation of PDF documents and basic PDF-editing tools.
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June 25, 2012
Most of us don’t have the tools to easily create PDFs – particularly with advanced options -- and don’t want to learn a complex application like Adobe Acrobat to do so. Softland's novaPDF is an easy-to-use tool to create PDFs from any application that supports printing. This week we’re giving away 25 copies of novaPDF Professional Desktop 7 worth a total of $1250! Read on for your chance to enter our giveaway and win your own copy!
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June 25, 2012
I'm all in favor of paper conservation and keeping our collective environmental footprint in check, so naturally I understand why some people feel obliged to print two 'pages' side by side on one physical page; a phenomenon I like to call 'double-print'. But even though PDF's are often destined for print, the fact is they are just as often distributed digitally.
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April 21, 2012
What do you do when you need a PDF but your scanner and the software that comes with it only gives you images? Hexonic ScanToPDF can take care of those problems quickly and easily. The great thing about this program is that it almost does a direct conversion from an image format to a PDF.
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February 20, 2012
I’ve been calling Linux Mint my main OS, an experience which has absolutely blown my mind. Linux Mint simply works beautifully, without any of the quirks that drove me up the wall in Ubuntu. However, I have observed that there are no alternatives (yet) for some of the programs that I call indispensable and have grown to love in Windows.
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February 6, 2012
In the next two week, we're giving away 50 free copies of Nitro Pro 7 worth a whopping $6000 in total!
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February 3, 2012
Make simple changes to any PDF file in Linux. Move pages around, edit the bookmarks, add pages from another PDF or remove pages altogether. It's a snap with PDF Mod, a simple Linux program that does one thing and does it well. If there's something PDF files aren't really supposed to be, it's editable. The format, originally created as a way to transfer data from a computer to a printer, is essentially a digital piece of paper.
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November 3, 2011
Out of all the common file types found in our computing world, PDF is probably one of the most restrictive ones, while at the same time being available for everyone to use (primarily to read). Indeed, the world of PDF reading is full of sunshine and rainbows, but once you want to create your own PDFs it seems as if you'll be leaving with an empty wallet - if anything.
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August 5, 2011
Though Apple's PDF reader and image correction application, Preview, is a highly used default program on the Mac, a third-party alternative reader, Skim, pushes Preview to the side when it comes to advanced study and annotation tools and features. A slew of additional annotation tools and document management features have been added.
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June 21, 2011
PDFs are great, there's no argument there. But reading and editing PDFs can get quite cumbersome, especially when the main contender out there is Adobe Acrobat, which you might need to sell your house in order to buy. Nitro PDF Reader is an awesome free option which we've covered here in the past, and today, Nitro is getting a younger brother in the form of Nitro PDF Reader 2.
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