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As with Adobe Acrobat, Nitro PDF Pro's reader is free; but unlike Adobe's free reader, Nitro's free reader allows PDF creation (via a virtual printer driver, or by specifying a filename in the reader's interface, or by drag-'n-drop of a file to Nitro PDF Reader's Windows desktop icon); Ghostscript not needed. PagePlus: Proprietary: No
The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny open source portable reader that opens PDF's in the blink of an eye. Bloat and startup time is a major drawback to Adobe Reader, so we fled to the faster arms of Foxit Reader long ago. However, at 850KB, Sumatra is way slimmer than FoxIt. ^ Anders Ingeman Rasmussen (2008).
PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. [6] It can handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and looping. [6] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while graphics commands remain. [6]
TCPDF is a free and open source software PHP class for generating PDF documents. TCPDF is the only PHP-based library that includes complete support for UTF-8 Unicode and right-to-left languages, including the bidirectional algorithm. [2] In 2009 TCPDF was one of the most active of over 200,000 projects hosted on SourceForge (best ranked 6th on ...
Foxit PDF Reader. Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF ( Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. [3] Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size. [4]
Type. PDF utility. License. AGPLv3 for v3, GPLv2 for previous versions 2.x. Website. pdfsam .org. PDFsam Basic or PDF Split and Merge is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents. PDFsam uses a freemium model and encourages buying the full version with popups.
Xpdf can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs. The official version obeys the DRM restrictions of PDF files, which can prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files. There are patches that make Xpdf ignore these DRM restrictions,; the Debian distribution for example has these patches in place by default.
PDFCreator. PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format ( PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then ...