How To Deal With PDF’s Without Adobe

April 16, 2007

PDF’s are useful in select situations, but dealing with Adobe’s PDF products is unbelievably frustrating. Adobe over the years, like some Microsoft products, have become bloated, memory hogs, extremely slow, and just not fun or productive to use. So how do you deal with PDF’s without using Adobe’s products? Here are some solutions for you to implement.

PDF’s in the Browser:

Nothing is more frustrating than clicking on a URL that unknowingly links to PDF. Inevitably locking up the browser and ruing your current web surfing mojo. PDF Download for Firefox will give you a download prompt for all PDF’s links in Firefox.

Creating PDF’s:

PDFCreator gives you a simple, effective, and free way to create PDF’ from virtually any source. PDFCreator adds a printer on Windows that when used will crate a PDF file. This means from Word, Notepad, a Browser, anywhere; you can create a PDF.

Viewing PDF’s:

There are many ways to view PDF’s without using Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. My favorited are Open Office and Foxit Reader. Foxit Reader is a small, fast, and quick way to view PDF’s