Karl Heinz Kremer's Ramblings » nuance http://www.khk.net/wordpress Stuff, stuff and more stuff Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:38:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Nuance PDF Reader http://www.khk.net/wordpress/2010/02/23/nuance-pdf-reader/ http://www.khk.net/wordpress/2010/02/23/nuance-pdf-reader/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:19:24 +0000 khk http://www.khk.net/wordpress/?p=612

Nuance (the people behind OmniPage and Dragon Naturally Speaking and a bunch of other things) release a competitor to the free Adobe Reader – the free Nuance PDF Reader (http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdf-reader.asp). The feature list looks very promising:

  • Fill and save PDF forms
  • Annotate PDFs
  • Convert PDF files to Word Excel or RTF
  • Can disable JavaScript
  • 100% compatibility with Adobe Acrobat (we have to wait to see how compatible it really is)
  • Supports PDF Portfolios

Now to the things that it does not do:

  • No support for Mac OS X or Linux
  • No participation in online document reviews

I’ve not spent enough time with it yet to offer a detailed review, but it’s certainly a good alternative to the Adobe Reader. Competition is a good thing, maybe Adobe will take a few cues from Nuance for their next release of Reader.

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