Foxit Reader
Free PDF document viewer and printer


Now with more PDF viewing, PDF mark-up and PDF collaboration features – MORE features than ANY other PDF Reader

Foxit PDF Reader 4.0 is a small, fast, and feature rich PDF viewer for Microsoft Windows, which allows you to open, view, and print any PDF file. Foxit PDF Reader is secure, offering 3-three levels of PDF viewing security to protect against malicious PDF files.

The following is a list of exciting new features in Foxit Reader

Secure Trust Manager
The new Secure Trust Manager enables users to allow or deny unauthorized actions and data transmission, including URL connection, attachments PDF actions, and JavaScript functions; efficiently avoiding the attack from malicious contents and viruses.

Improved Ask Search Button Setting
Enables users to show or hide the Ask Search Button in the Preferences menu.

Undo and Redo
Allows users to easily correct mistakes by cancelling their previous actions and quickly adding back in changes made with the Undo option, this makes it convenient for users to revoke their performances and enables better editing requirements.

Expand Current Bookmark
Click the Expand Current Bookmark icon to expand nested bookmarks and highlight the bookmark of the current page.

Grayscale Printing
Reader 3.2 supports to print in grayscale, using many shades of gray to represent subtle variations in color and light.

Speed Up Printing
Foxit Reader has optimized the printing feature, improving the speed of printing dramatically.

Logical Page Number Support
Display the physical and logical page number on the status bar at the bottom of the working area, enabling you to go right to the desired page fast and accurately.

Last Updated 21 January 2011
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Adobe Reader 10
Easily view, print, and collaborate on PDF files

Adobe Reader is the global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents. It's the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia.

Access to all PDF files
View and interact with PDF files that contain a wide variety of content types, including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements.

Enhanced commenting tools
Make notes and share your feedback with others by marking up PDF documents using the Sticky Notes and Highlighter tools.

Industry-leading security
Take advantage of the security of Protected Mode in Reader, which helps safeguard your computer software and data from malicious code.

Online services
Directly access online services at Acrobat.com from within Reader X. Perform common tasks such as creating PDF files, securely sharing and storing documents, and screen-sharing.

Electronic form submission
Fill, save, sign, and electronically submit forms that have been Reader enabled by Adobe LiveCycle® ES2 or Adobe Acrobat® software.

Last Updated 14 February 2011
Win 2003/XP/2003/Vista/7
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
Linux
Solaris 9 or 10

PDFCreator
Create PDF files from nearly any Windows application

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:
Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
Send generated files via eMail
Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
Merge multiple files into one PDF
Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

Last Updated 25 January 2011
Win 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7

PrimoPDF
Convert documents to the PDF file format

Convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer - it couldn't be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and virtually any other printable file type.

FREE PDF Converter - not a trial version.
Print to PDF from virtually any application.
Create PDF output optmized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.
No annoying pop-up ads, no registration requirement - no catch!
High-quality, easy to use PDF creator for all users.

NEW! Secure PDFs with 40-/128-bit encryption, allowing the highest level of security for your PDF files. Settings include password to open, password to change, disable printing, disable text/graphics copying, disable commenting, disable text editing, disable page addition.

NEW! Add document information (e.g. title, author, subject, keywords) to converted PDF files, resulting in faster and easier searching of PDF documents.

Last Updated 06 August 2010
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7

CutePDF Writer
Create PDF documents on the fly

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem".

This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!
FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads!

Supports Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003.
Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript (recommended).
You can get the free GNU Ghostscript 7.06 HERE

Last Updated 02 June 2010
Win 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

doPDF
Create your own PDF documents

doPDF installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter.

Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Main benefits for using this free PDF converter:

It’s free - PDF converter free for both commercial and personal use.

32-bit and 64-bit support - can be installed on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems.

No GhostScript or .NET - doesn’t require 3rd party programs to do PDF files such as GhostScript or runtime environments like the .NET Framework. This makes the setup file to be incredibly small compared to other free PDF converters.

Customizable resolution - you can choose any resolution from 72 to 2400 dpi.

Predefined/custom page sizes - choose a default page size (Letter, Legal, A4, A5, A6, ...) or enter your own custom page size.

Searchable PDFs - you can search for text within the created PDF file (and search engines will also index the text from the PDF).

Multi-language - choose a language for the user interface from the 20 languages currently supported (credits).

Do your part in saving the planet - instead of consuming paper to print your document, why not create a PDF file out of it and spare a couple of planet-saving trees?

Barely uses any computer resources - compared to other free PDF converters, doPDF barely uses any memory or CPU resources when doing the actual conversion to PDF.

Last Updated 06 May 2010
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7

Pdf995 (pdf suite)

Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer.

Pdf995 supports network file saving, fast user switching on XP, Citrix/Terminal Server, custom page sizes and large format printing. Pdf995 is a printer driver that works with any Postscript to PDF converter.
Download pdfedit995 for the ultimate pdf suite.

Win 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

Sumatra PDF Portable
Portable app for viewing pdf's

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF reader for Windows. Portable out of the box.

Why another PDF reader?
Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features.

It's small and starts up very fast.

It's designed for portable use: only one file so you can run it from external USB drive. Doesn't write to registry.

Win 95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7

Go2PDF

Go2PDF enables you to convert instantly any document into PDF format with a simple click. Go2PDF contains a Virtual PDF Printer, which is a high-quality PDF converter and generator with passwords protection, PDF access control, PDF scaling, PDF version and compatibility control, font embedding options and more.

The generated PDF is small yet clear. Go2PDF is Freeware, offering an effective solution to create PDF documents with ease and joy. Go2PDF itself is only 261KB, very small, easy to use, yet smart and powerful.

You may convert Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access documents into PDF formats, convert AutoCAD file into PDF, convert image formats to PDF, convert plain text file to PDF.

Win NT/2000/XP

PDF to Word Converter
The Best Free Desktop PDF to Word Converter

AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter is an efficient application with unique feature to PDF to Word 2010 (.docx) 2007(.docx), 2003(.doc). The original text, layouts, images and hyperlinks can be exactly retained in the generated Word documents. Modifying or reusing the contents becomes easy after converting PDF to Word.

There are some existing free PDF to Word Converters on the market at present, compared with 2 well-known free PDF to Word Converters, AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter turns out to be the best

Don't require Adobe Reader or Acrobat
Support Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7
Support encrypted PDF files conversion
3 conversion modes—Batch, Partial, Right-click conversion modes

Note: Free Keycode can be used for this version permanently! But this version cannot be used for commercial usage!

Minimum Required Software: Microsoft Word 2003/2007/2010

Win 2003/XP/Vista/7

Free PDF to Word Converter
Easy to use utility that does swift conversions from PDF to Word

Free PDF to Word Converter is an easy to use utility that does swift conversions from PDF to Word. You just need to add the file which you intend to convert into the program and click Convert.

It is that easy! This program will create an exact copy of the PDF file. It will retain all graphics, fonts and formatting.

It supports all versions of MS Word so that you would not have any troubles editing the converted file. The program works on all Windows systems.

Win XP/Vista/7

PDF4Free
Create PDF for free

The software installs itself as a print driver, all you have to do is to click "Print" from your application to create PDF files. PDF4Free is complete freeware PDF creator. Users may create PDF files as many as they want. However, the features of the software are limited to PDF creation with font embedding, title, subject, author, keyword information embedding. The software is free ONLY for personal and noncommercial use. Anyone who wishes to use the software for business and commerce should purchase PDF4U family products.

Note:
All PDF documents created by PDF4Free will be tagged, i.e. PDF Creator - PDF4Free v2.0 will be tagged onto all the created PDF documents. The sole purpose of the tag is to spread the free PDF creator software to more and more people.

Win NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7

Ease PDF to Text Extractor
Free software designed to extract text from Adobe PDF files

Ease Pdf to Text Extractor is a free software designed to extract text from Adobe PDF files. It does NOT need Adobe Acrobat software.It processes at very high speed and you can convert multiple PDF files to text files at one time. The program is freeware, which means that you can use it either persionally or commercially for free.

Features:
Convert PDF documents to text format, Fast, Accurate, Free .
Batch conversion of multiple PDF documents to text files.
Support all Windows platform

Last Updated 27 September 2009
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

PDF SpeedUp
Speed up your Acrobat Reader to being lightning fast!

PDF SpeedUp allows you to significantly speed up the time it takes to load Adobe Reader. If you notice that when the Reader starts it loads many plug-ins which you may or may not need, this program simply disables the plug-ins and loads only the absolute necessary ones so the program starts quickly. It offers several options and you can also manually enable or disable the plug-ins as needed. PDF SpeedUp works with Acrobat versions 5 through 9. Multi-lingual interface:

Features:
Free PDF Tweak Utility for Adobe Acrobat 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Adobe Reader 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Enable or disable the plug-ins as needed
Turn off all Updates features
Disable the splash screen during program startup
Remove the My eBooks folder created in My Documents
Turn off the advertisements for Adobe products in the upper-right corner of the toolbar
Remove PrintMe and Adobe Reader icons
Disable Browser Integration
Disable confirmation dialog when closing Adobe Reader
Better speed for LAN and Cable connection
Clear Adobe Reader Recent Files History
Restore to original settings at any time

Last Updated 06 May 2010
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Easy PDF to Text Converter

Easy PDF to Word Converter can export the text, images and other contents from PDF document into MS Word document.
It is a standalone program and does not require Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or even Acrobat Reader.

You can convert batches of PDF files to Word files with Easy PDF to Word Converter with high speed and good quality.

Win 98/ME/2000/NT/XP

PDF2HTML
Convert PDF to HTML

Pdf2html is a command-line tool that translates .pdf documents into html format.

It offers several parameters, including options to create output with or without using HTML frames,ignore or include images, translate internal pdf links and more.

Win 98/ME/2000/XP

Scan2PDF
Scan documents to PDF format

Scan2PDF enables you to scan paper documents and save them to PDF format on your computer for digital archiving or backup.

In addition, you can also load images from your hard drive and combine them with a scanned document, or combine multiple documents/images into a single PDF file. Scan2PDF come with a poorly designed interface, but works well.

Win 98/2000/XP/Vista