PDF-XChange Viewer

If you take the XChange part out of this application’s name, you have a brief description of what it is: a PDF Viewer. And to be more precise, this is a free and user friendly tool to view PDF files, a tool that has quite a few options to offer. You are very well advised to go give it a try.

The setup wizard that guides you through the installation process allows you to pick one of three installation options: Full, Custom, and Compact. The Full Installation covers the following: PDF-Viewer files, live update for PDF-Viewer, Help file, language files addin for Internet Explorer, adding for Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Chrome, shell extensions, OCR for English, French, German, Spanish.

The interface is just what you would expect from an application of this type. The main panel presents whatever PDF file you load into PDF-XChange Viewer. Above this main panel there’s a File Menu and a toolbar with buttons for various features and functions. From the View Menu you can customize this interface: change background style, change background color, select what elements are displayed on the interface, change fonts, change colors.

PDF-XChange Viewer is available as a Free and as a Pro version. As you can imagine, the features reserved for the Pro version are not available in the Free version. These features are conveniently marked as “Pro”.

You can use PDF-XChange Viewer for the following: open and view PDF files; preview PDF files before opening them; undo and redo; find and search; sign document; recognize text on pages using OCR; view comments, import and export comments, add comments; multiple tools.

The bottom line is that PDF-XChange Viewer is a very nice choice for anyone who needs a tool to view PDF files.