PDF-XChange Viewer - the Lightweight PDF Reader
PDF-XChange Viewer Is a Better Free PDF Reader than Adobe Acrobat
Aug 10, 2009
PDF files are one of the most popular types of files users download and read. PDF has become a de facto standard and that is why PDF readers are one of the types of programs the majority of people can't live without. For many users PDF readers start and end with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Why Adobe Acrobat Reader Is not the Best Free PDF Reader
The popularity of Adobe Acrobat Reader is not difficult to understand because it is Adobe that created the PDF format. Additionally, Adobe Acrobat Reader is free, often comes bundled with other programs, or everybody recommends it and this further contributes to its popularity. However, Adobe Acrobat Reader has one major drawback – it requires a lot of system resources and even if a computer is powerful enough, a fat PDF file can crash it.
The previous versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader used to be much lighter and working with PDF files wasn't such a torture. However, as more and more features were added to Adobe Acrobat Reader, the program became greedier and greedier on system resources and the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader are real memory monsters. Fortunately, there are many other free PDF readers and even though not all of them are exceptional, there are some PDF readers, which are really great. PDF-XChange Viewer is one of them.
PDF-XChange Viewer Is a Powerful Free PDF Reader and Editor
One of the best free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat is the lightweight PDF-XChange Viewer. The name “viewer” is kind of misleading because PDF-XChange Viewer allows to make some edits to the PDF files. PDF-XChange Viewer has tons of features – too many to be listed here. What is more, PDF-XChange Viewer certainly has times more options than Adobe Acrobat and still it is amazingly lightweight – no comparison in performance between the two can be made because PDF-XChange Viewer simply blows Adobe Acrobat Reader off the track.
For users, who don't work with multiple PDF files or the PDF files are relatively small, replacing Adobe Acrobat Reader with PDF-XChange Viewer might not be a tangible improvement but for everybody who uses fat PDF files, even on a relatively powerful computer, the change to this light PDF reader will be quite noticeable. Users will also enjoy the rich feature set of PDF-XChange Viewer and quite soon users will wonder what took them so long to find a really lightweight, yet powerful PDF reader.
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