Looking for a pdf editor program. I've used Acrobat a lot and like it, except for the cost. I downloaded a demo of Fox-it Standard yesterday and it looks like it might be OK. Have any of you had experiences with it, positive or negative?
I use foxit as a backup/workaround for acrobat, the company owns acrobat 10 and that works fine for most things, but I still fire up foxit to place image files it's just easier than doing it in acrobat.
Since you're not getting much feedback on Foxit, I personally love Bluebeam as an alternative to Acrobat. It is probably priced between Acrobat and Foxit, and they also have free trials. It has a lot of nice features, collaboration tools, email archiving, quantity takeoffs, and useful plugins for not just Autocad, but also Word and Excel.
I'm a Bluebeam fan too.
I have tried Foxit but didn't find it up to Bluebeam.
Foxit was certainly a very capable PDF, but text and annotation was not as good as Bluebeam from my experience.
I thought Foxit was way cheaper, might be wrong.
BlitzkriegBob, post: 444951, member: 9554 wrote: I personally love Bluebeam
Richard, post: 445024, member: 833 wrote: I'm a Bluebeam fan too.
I have used Bluebeam, for about a year an a half. I would go for it if my clients were using for project management. But I just want something to edit pdfs, mainly to collect items from various sources into a single pdf document. That and mark ups.
Mark Mayer, post: 444506, member: 424 wrote: Looking for a pdf editor program. I've used Acrobat a lot and like it, except for the cost. I downloaded a demo of Fox-it Standard yesterday and it looks like it might be OK. Have any of you had experiences with it, positive or negative?
I know nothing about Foxit, but following through the rest of the thread I noticed other suggestions, so I thought I'd throw mine in.
There us a freeware product out there called PDFCREATOR which I've always thought was one of the best. As of a couple of years ago they have been bundling a PDF editor with it.
I haven't actually used the editor part, and I'm not even sure if it is freeware, but going by the quality of PDFCREATOR I would think that anything bundled with it would be worth looking at.
PDFCREATOR is available at pdfforge.org
A program package comes with a Brother Printer that includes PDF Viewer Plus that does all that.
I could certainly work with Foxit.
Bluebeam has integration with Ms office products.
Does Foxit have that? Maybe you don't need it.
[USER=3108]@mcaanda[/USER] does that PDF allow scale and annotate distances etc?
Looks good. I'd never heard of it.
I use Nitro Pro as an Adobe backup. It's powerful and reasonably priced. And there's always a 20% discount coupon.
Nitro Pro here as well. It does more than I need.
I love Foxit. I do all my edits and markups in that. Then I open in Adobe to delete the Foxit copyright stamp that gets put there when you save it, (since I'm using the free version).
Richard, post: 445098, member: 833 wrote:
[USER=3108]@mcaanda[/USER] does that PDF allow scale and annotate distances etc?
Looks good. I'd never heard of it.
[USER=833]@Richard[/USER] TBH I've never used it for that, but looking into the options there does look like there's the opportunity to do so yes.
They have a couple three versions of the program, and this is the one that I bought myself. I think it was in the +/- 70'ish dollar range?
[USER=3108]@mcaanda[/USER] thanks.
yes that's as I expected.
So my 14 day free trial of Fox-it expires today. The experience has been quite satisfactory. It does all the things I want it to and does them well. I would be willing to fork over the $130. In fact, now I really can't see any reason to pay for Acrobat.
But first I'm going to give Nitro Pro a try. It's a bit more expensive at $160.
Mark I found both Foxit and Nitro gave extensions, it was just a matter of asking.
Nitro sent me many emails asking how I was going.
I was suitably impressed with both actually,
Do these non-Adobe offerings provide digital signature capability?
FWIW, it looks like Acrobat Pro X can be bought on eBay for a similar cost.
Jim Frame, post: 446668, member: 10 wrote: Do these non-Adobe offerings provide digital signature capability?
They both have digital signature functions. I have not tested them for that.
I use Foxit to edit and print PDF's, but since I also need a decent driver for Intellicad, I use PDFCreator to print to PDF and it mimics the small file sizes I am used to with C3D.
Without PDFCreator, I was getting ridiculously huge files. Foxit doesn't really work that well as a driver for CAD though if that is a consideration. Large File Size and it doesn't read in some of my text styles for some reason.
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For what it's worth, the last few versions of AutoCAD include a printer named "dwg to pdf" or something similar that does a great job of plotting direct to pdf. Both AutoCAD and the latest version of Carlson on Intellicad 8.3 have a feature under the file menu where you pick PDF rather than Plot and you can create a pdf of multiple layouts simultaneously. I believe the command in Intellicad is "pdfexport", and here is a pic of the dialog box.
Pretty handy commands if you don't have a pdf writer that has a good CAD driver.