For the fillable PDF forms on our web site, you should be able to use at least Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, and PDF-XChange Viewer to fill out (via the keyboard) and print such completed forms. While most of the PDF documents that you will encounter on our web site can be viewed by any of the above software choices, PDFs that are housed outside of our web site may require you to use Adobe Reader to view them. You can upgrade to the PDF-XChange PRO that is much more than a viewer, it also allows you. For those who are looking specifically for free software that has been designed using open standards (rather than proprietary ones), a list of such software is on this site. Free An excellent option to the famous Adobe Acrobat for free. More free alternatives to Adobe Reader are listed on this site.

Foxit Reader ( for Windows, Linux, and mobile devices).

Their features may not be as complete as those of Adobe Reader – for example, they may not be able to properly display everything in a complex PDF file created by the most recent versions of Adobe's PDF creation software, or they may not be able to allow text entry in a PDF with fillable fields – but they are much smaller in size and many of them can be run from portable devices such as USB flash drives:

There are other free software options that can be used to view most PDF files.

Adobe Reader ( for Windows, MacOS, Linux, mobile devices, and more).

If you are looking for a simple free alternative to Acrobat Reader PDF-XChange Viewer is the best option for you. You can also perform other PDF file related additional functions with the help of this freeware. Feel free to ask the Foxit Reader developers to enhance their reader, so it copies the highlighted text in the invisible pop-up notes. PDF-XChange Viewer is a free Adobe Acrobat Reader alternative that helps you to Adobe supported PDF files.

The creator of the PDF format, Adobe Systems, offers their free Adobe Reader software: Foxit Reader generally is a fine PDF viewer (it creates comments and bookmarks) but Docear cannot import highlighted text that was created with it. Documents stored as PDF ('Portable Document Format') files require a special viewer in order to open them.

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