You can also underline or strike out text anywhere on the document (and yes this will be printed). I made comments on a test document and found that although the actual comment will NOT be visible on the page once you print it, I was surprised that the icon denoting the location of the comment in fact did print. This will typically look like a colored icon with a sticky note attached to it or hovering nearby otherwise you can highlight a bunch of text and link it to a balloon hovering close to it (see screenshot).
Especially handy when filling out a form that is not actually a PDF form.
The side pane on the left hand margin can optionally display thumbnails of individual pages of the document (it can also display bookmarked pages). The ’pan and zoom’ tool proved to be a surprisingly practical (and pleasant) navigation aide. zooming, searching text, highlighting form feeds), PDF-XChange offers Firefox style tabbed browsing, viewing all open docs as thumbnails, and bookmarking pages.
Here are some notes on this program:Īs a viewer: in addition to the usual viewing tools (e.g.
PDF-XChange Viewer is a free PDF viewer and editor that offers a number of useful functions including form filling, typewriter mode (for forms that were not designed for filling), the ability to add annotations and draw shapes into your PDF, as well as the ability to leave comments and embed sticky notes into the PDF document.Īlternatives to Adobe’s free PDF reader were traditionally borne out of a need to have a lean, fast-loading PDF viewing app PDF-XChange certainly delivers on this, but it also manages to pack a large number of useful functions.