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Posted by Ken Ashworth
Oct 30, 2007 at 02:26 PM

quant wrote:
> >But seems that converting everything
>to pdf could be a way to go. Maybe I’d go for this option were >FoxitReader able to create
>bookmarks. The price of Adobe Acrobat is way over the amount I can >afford.

Just wondering, looking over the Feature Set for Foxit Reader Pro Pak:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

it speaks of Annotations, and hints at multiple notes per file - the Feature Set looks pretty impressive and the price of the Form Designer doesn’t look bad.

Anybody had any experience in these areas of the program?

Posted by Ken
Oct 30, 2007 at 03:32 PM

I am no fan of Adobe, but I tried an evaluation version of Foxit for annotating PDF files, and I thought it had a lot to be desired if that was the primary purpose for using it. And, it did not install/uninstall well from my machine. It kept making itself the default program for PDF’s regardless of how many times I reset my machine. We, my IT administrator and I, even edited the registry to stop this behavior, and it still persisted. Granted, its possible that this problem was caused by something else, but it just did not deliver. I ended up with Acrobat Standard. Its slow and bluky, but for me, its still better at annotating than FoxitPro. YMMV.

—Ken

Posted by quant
Nov 8, 2007 at 12:26 AM

Just an update ...

I found excellent (IMHO) pdf annotating/conversion tool, Bluebeam PDF revu, standard price is $149, but for students, they offer it for $30 (no proof needed)

http://www.cadopolis.com/store/addons/Bluebeam-PDF-Revu—-Standard-Student-Edition-P429C1.aspx

Features I like so far:
- tabbed environment (new documents open as tabs, which allows fast navigation)
- freehand and many other comment/annotation tools, I can navigate though all my annotations fast
- can add/edit bookmarks
- search for terms through the whole documents at once, very fast navigation through search results
- conversion to/from pdf for many format

More info:
http://www.bluebeam.com/web07/us/products/revu/standard/features.asp

For $30, I think it’s a steal ... I bought it after 15 minutes of evaluating it ;-)

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