Comments for Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

2003-06-18T16:28:25Z

Portable Document Format (PDF) is an increasingly popular standard for e-books (and hundreds of other uses) because of:
1) how well it preserves formatting across many platforms
2) and the security options it provides

The most robust tool for creating PDFs is Adobe Acrobat. It is what I use. For cheaper alternatives, try Adobe's online convertor or pdfFactory. Both let you try before you buy.

There are other options, even free ones. But before committing to a cheaper product, find out what formats they convert from (one popular convertor ONLY works with text files) and whether they can make URLs clickable (many do not.) For a nearly complete listing of PDF conversion utilities, visit Planet PDF Tools List.

Comment from Richard from Nitro PDF Software on 2008-01-31

2008-01-31T23:29:34Z

Hi Barbara, you might like to try our alternative to Acrobat. It does PDF creation, editing, viewing, etc.

Best of luck!

Richard

Comment from Bill on 2006-09-26

2006-09-26T15:05:49Z

For those who hate Adobe Acrobat (that includes me and probably 90% of the planet) and who do not want to pay out any more cash than is absolutely neccessary (also includes me and about 90% of the planet)- try the OpenOffice suite available free from their website at www.openoffice.org. It creates PDF's from Word documents at the click a button. You can even create the document in Word, if you must. Simply open the document with OpenOffice.org Writer and click the PDF button. Easy!!! and its free (and it works fast - and unlike Acrobat it actually does work). It even preserves the clickability of URLs. What's more - you can even eventually dispense with that other piece of trash - Microsoft Office! I hope you do realise this piece of crucial information could save the entire planet. The number of hours spent on PCs could be drastically reduced. We could all leave work 2 hours early, miss the rush hour, save gallons of gas and therefore prevent global warming.

Comment from fa-q_acrobat on 2004-05-04

2004-05-04T12:17:35Z

may the lord reign heavy blows to all those who helped adobe propagate this wretched program called acrobat.
i can't begin to tell you how much i hate it!

Comment from Alex on 2004-03-14

2004-03-14T11:36:18Z

Me too!! I hate Acrobat Reader

Comment from burninhellacrobat on 2003-07-31

2003-08-01T03:46:23Z

i hate acrobat more than anything in this world