Best Pdf Reader For Mac 2016

Best Pdf Reader For Mac 2016 Christmas
Adobe Reader For Mac

Adobe's free PDF reader has long been a standard for handling its extremely popular document format, but you aren't limited to using it to view your PDF files. Let's take a look at five of the most popular PDF readers.

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Last week we asked you to share your favorite PDF reader, and now we're back to share the results.

The award-winning PDF reader on Windows PCs is now available on Mac. Foxit Reader allows you to view and annotate PDF files quickly and easily. This high-performance, feature-rich reader provides a consistent user experience across PCs and mobile devices. In some circles, PDF files manipulation is an absolute necessity. It’s very easy to find a free PDF Viewer such as the official Adobe PDF Viewer, but many people think that to edit PDF files, they must purchase the Adobe paid app. Adobe Reader for Mac. Still Adobe is the best producer for PDF reader. Adobe is best because it constantly updated and improved. The latest Adobe version released on 2015 comes with system requirement enhancements, mitigation for security issues, improved overall stability, bug fixes, and feature enhancements.

Best PDF Reader?

PDFs have become quite a mainstay in the document world, with a plethora of readers having cropped…

Sumatra PDF (Windows, Free)

Sumatra PDF is an ultra-lightweight and open-source portable application. The emphasis with Sumatra PDF is not on the number of features and the wide-ranging abilities of the application, but instead on speed. It loads almost instantly, renders pages extremely quickly, and thanks to a huge number of keyboard shortcuts, you can zip through nearly any document with ease. Sumatra PDF, thanks to a lack of frills and extraneous features, is a great candidate for a portable drive or for in-browser use for someone who wants quick-loading PDF files without the lag caused by features they won't ever use.

Preview (Mac, Free)

Preview is Apple's free PDF viewer, built into OS X. It's no mystery many Mac users have no need to step beyond the built-in tool. Preview has quite a few features often only found in commercial PDF software, like the ability to drag and drop pages between documents, page extraction, encryption, and text annotation. In addition to viewing PDF files, Preview can display over two dozen other file formats, making it quite a versatile little viewer.

Foxit (Windows/Linux, Basic: Free/Pro Pack: $39.99)

Foxit is a polished Acrobat-alternative that, on top of cleanly displaying PDF files with a minimal interface, also has a host of handy features—all packed into a lightweight 6MB package. Foxit loads immediately, without any splash page or lag from plug-ins loading. Reading PDFs is just as snappy, and in-text pictures and charts render quickly. When filling out PDF forms, you can save your progress in the form and return later to finish filling it out. While both the free and the Pro version allow you to annotate text, insert graphics and drawings, and insert links, the free version adds a Foxit stamp on each page you annotate; the pro version removes the marking. Foxit is available as a portable application.

Adobe Acrobat (Windows/Mac/Linux, Basic: Free/Pro: $299)

Adobe Reader is Adobe's default offering for viewing PDFs. Acrobat enjoys widespread popularity as a result of being offered by the company that created the PDF. For light PDF users, it's a more than adequate tool, although frequent users may seek to try a lighter alternative to get rid of the long load times and the lag that can occur when Acrobat loads within a web browser pane. You can attach sticky notes to pages and highlight text for your own review. More advanced features, like PDF creation, saving PDFs in other formats, and the ability to merge PDF files, are only available with an upgrade to Acrobat Standard for $299.

PDF-XChange (Windows, Basic: Free/Pro: $34)

PDF-XChange is another Adobe-alternative in today's Hive that boasts snappy load times and basic functionality that outpaces the basic functionality of Adobe Reader. With PDF-XChange you can open and browse PDF documents, perform simple page annotations with drawings and text, and type outside of preset form boxes by using the PDF-XChange typewriter tool to place text wherever you want. Advanced features like reorganizing pages and text extraction are only available with the Pro upgrade. PDF-Xchange is available as a portable application.

Now that you've had a chance to look over the candidates—and hopefully get a chance to test them out, since so many are conveniently portable!—it's time to cast your vote in the poll below:

Which PDF Viewer is Best?

Best Pdf Reader For Mac 2016 Christmas

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Love a PDF application that didn't make the cut? Have a trick for making Adobe Acrobat load faster? Share your PDF tips and tricks in the comments.

this might be a sort of duplicate post, but I'm posting it anyway because the older ones are marked as answered despite the fact that there seems to be no solution to the problem.

So the context is word 2016 for mac, on a macbook pro running Yosemite.

The problem is that hyperlinks that work in a docx documents become inactive when the file is converted to pdf (save as pdf).

I have the feeling that MS is putting the blame for this on mac OS or Adobe, but that makes no sense whatsoever. Indeed

1) Open source word processors (e.g. LibreOffice) are perfectly capable to create active links in pdf files. So does the above explanation involve a conspiracy of Apple and/or Adobe against MS, and MS alone?

2) Word 2016 itself seems to get it right when the source file is a doc rather than a docx file. That is: if I converte my docx to doc, and create the pdf from the latter, the links in the pdf remain active (subtle conspiracy that targets only specific MS file formats).

Can anybody confirm that hyperlinks (to internet urls) are lost when converting a docx to pdf?

Is there an obvious solution that I'm not seeing?

Can anybody confirm that hyperlinks work when the source is a doc?

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Thanks a lot

Francesco