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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 17, 2012 at 10:20 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I just had a bit of a problem
>with viewing a PDF in Firefox with the XChange Viewer (free version!), and this time I
>bothered to email the error report. I received a response in a matter of minutes from
>their support guy. Wow! Very impressed. The problem had nothing to do with XChange
>Viewer in the end. Excellent service.
Glad to hear this. I’ve bought PDF XChange Pro from Tracker Software, which includes PDF Tools; in fact, you’ll find that they cross-promote their products heavily, so what you end up paying is significanty less than the sum of the nominative prices.
Along with (free) PDFill tools provided by another company, I can do everything I’ve ever needed to do with PDF files, including some very sophisticated batch modifications for full books. In fact, for most people the free XChange Viewer plus the free PDFill should be more than enough.
I should add that I tested the full version of Adobe Acrobat and I foud that the same modifications were considerably more complex with it, while at the same time its price was almost 7 times what I paid for the XChange toolkit.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 18, 2012 at 02:11 PM
Yes, I’d agree with that. We’ve moved over to PDF Xchange Viewer as our main in-house software - very powerful, loads of lovely features, and the Pro version is very cheap. Acrobat is well over-priced for what it is, although I notice that Adobe is starting to emphasize the collaboration features more nowadays. But everybody can collaborate using PDFs in any case! I mean, I do a lot of my PDF markups on my iPad using iAnnotate or PDF Expert, for goodness sake! Both of which bear comparison with Acrobat.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 24, 2013 at 07:56 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Dr Andus wrote:
>>I just had a bit of a problem
>>with viewing a PDF in Firefox with the XChange Viewer (free version!),
>and this time I
>>bothered to email the error report. I received a response in a matter
>of minutes from
>>their support guy. Wow! Very impressed. The problem had nothing to do
>with XChange
>>Viewer in the end. Excellent service.
>
>Glad to hear this. I’ve bought PDF XChange Pro from Tracker Software,
>which includes PDF Tools; in fact, you’ll find that they cross-promote
>their products heavily, so what you end up paying is significanty less
>than the sum of the nominative prices.
>I should add that I tested the full version of Adobe Acrobat and I foud
>that the same modifications were considerably more complex with it,
>while at the same time its price was almost 7 times what I paid for the
>XChange toolkit.
Not an outliner, but since we’d discussed it and it’s part of the eco-system: PDF-XChange Viewer PRO is 40% today (I caved in, after using the free version for years, and becoming frustrated with my old Adobe PRO 8 on Win7…)
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/pdf-xchange-viewer-pro
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 24, 2013 at 09:29 PM
I can definitely recommend it. With PDF Xchange Pro and the PDF Xchange Tools I do just about everything I would have needed Acrobat Pro for. Watch out for possible cross promotions; Tracker Software do quite a few for their customers and you may be abble to get the Tools with some significant discount as well.
Posted by Dr Andus
May 1, 2013 at 03:09 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
I can definitely recommend it. With PDF Xchange Pro and the PDF Xchange
>Tools I do just about everything I would have needed Acrobat Pro for.
>Watch out for possible cross promotions; Tracker Software do quite a few
>for their customers and you may be abble to get the Tools with some
>significant discount as well.
Looks like they now offer their PDF printer driver for free as well (which might not be a big deal if you’re already using another free driver anyway - though this might give you some extra controls):
“PDF-XChange ‘Lite’ 2012 is a simplified version of the PDF-XChange Standard 2012 print driver”
http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-lite