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Ten Great Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat For Editing PDF

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 09:24 AM PDT

Adobe made the Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF is the most used file format when it comes to taking out prints or sharing documents. For Windows Adobe Reader X is a very popular software that is used to create, open, view, print and manipulate PDF files. But now there are many other tools too that can be used for all that -- and this is a great thing as you have to buy Adobe Acrobat X to perform functions other than the basic ones. Adobe Acrobat X suite is obviously not very cheap with its price starting from $139.00 for standard version to $199.00 for pro version.

So here is a list of 10 Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat X Suite To Manipulate And Edit PDF Files



Size: 25 MB

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista & XP (both 32-bit , 64-bit supported)

Nitro PDF Reader is the best out of all other softwares out there. It boasts almost all the features that paid Adobe Acrobat X has. It lets you do everything with PDF files like view, create, edit and convert etc. We will not list all the features (which are a lot) of this amazing tool as it would take alot of time. If you want to get more information then you can check out the Nitro PDF Reader features list.


Size: 2.6 MB

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista ; XP

PDF Rider is a great tool that gives all the basic features used to edit and manipulate PDF files. It was developed in C# and .net 3.5. The main features of this software are the ability to merge PDF documents, insert pages from some other pdf file, extract, delete, rotate pages in PDF file, encrypt and decrypt a pdf file & burst a document into single pages.


Size: 198 Kb

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista & Xp

PDF Meta is a minimal tool that is developed in Java which lets user get rid of the meta data information from PDF documents. It allows you to do editing & customization of range of metadata information from PDF files.


Size: 2.8 MB

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista and XP

Quick PDF Tools is yet another great PDF manipulation utility and allows you to do editing of metadata, merging, editing & deleting pages from pdf files, adding, removing password, converting images to pdf & vice versa. One of the best thing about this tools is the fact that it has a right click content menu for quick access to tools.


Size: 200 Kb

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista & XP

The name says it all. This is a minimal command line tool that allows you to convert PDF files in to jpg images. It splits pages of PDF file into separate JPG Images.


Size: 92 MB

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista &; Xp

gDoc Creator is an incredible tool that lets you convert word, excel, powerpoint documents into PDF files. This tool is specially helpful when you have to convert office documents into PDF Files and don't have Office 2010 installed. It can also be used as a XPS File viewer. Even though gDos Creator has now been converted into paid gDoc Fusion software but you can still get the trial version of gDoc Fusion and can keep on using gDoc Creator even after the 30 days trial period for free.


Size: 4 MB

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista &; XP

iPDF Express is the only utility that lets you manipulate PDF files in a batch. With it you can do batch edits, merges, encrypts, decrypts, splits, bursts, adds and remove attachments etc.


Size: 2 MB

Supported operating system: Window 7, Vista &; Xp

PDF Annot is one unique tool that lets you add Audio & text annotations to PDF files.



Size: 16 MB

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista &; XP

It is yet another good utility which lets you view and edit PDF files. It is much more quicker and smaller tool as compared to others and has a lot of manipulation tools. It also lets you access all features from the right click menu. The best thing about this tool is that it can be used for private, commercial and in government institutions without any restrictions, and this is very unlike free softwares.



Size: 7.1 MB

Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista ; Xp

PDF reDirect is a very handy tool that lets you manipulate PDF files. It boasts features like encryption, full merging, watermarking, file locking, deleting or renaming a PDF file, Unprotecting PDF Files and PDF preview. It also supports several different languages.

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