Free .pdf app

[rdjohn]

Hi can anyone recommend a free .pdf reader with some limited editing for form filling and signature.

I have used Adobe Acrobat since it became available, but the one I downloaded for Win11 seems daft, it wants to create links rather than documents and save everything to its cloud.

I ditched that yesterday for one recommended by Google AI, but that is free for 7-days only.

It is literally something that I use only a few times each year, so not something that I want to subscribe to.

I have MS Office, if that is a reasonable way forward.

Thanks

[bangerhoarder]

Foxit Reader. More bloated since its early days, but still quick. I haven't installed Adobe Reader for maybe 15 years.

[rdjohn]

It was Foxit that I downloaded but it is looking for a subscription at the end of 7-days.

I used Nitro on my Win 10 laptop, it was perfect but seems to be subscription only now.

[zalrak]

MS Office has 'print to pdf' function under the printer options.

[rdjohn]

Yes, I was wondering if I could open the form with Word and the save as .pdf.

…..but, there must be an easy App to use

[zalrak]

It couldn't be much easier, click to select print to pdf and then select the folder to save it into:

[danb79]

I use this all the time: https://www.ilovepdf.com/

Forever having to amend candidate CVs or client specs because they can't write / spell / put sentences together properly etc

[Rollin]

pdfgear

[skyebear]

Canva, even the free version, has been really useful lately for amending PDFs and adding signatures.

Text and font detection is very good.

[nikaiyo2]

https://www.pdf24.org/en/

Its really good and has a lot of functions built in.

[bangerhoarder]

rdjohn said:

It was Foxit that I downloaded but it is looking for a subscription at the end of 7-days.

I used Nitro on my Win 10 laptop, it was perfect but seems to be subscription only now.

The Reader is free. The editor and other related products are subscription based.

[rdjohn]

Yes, I was wondering if I could open the form with Word and the save as .pdf.

…..but, there must be an easy App to use

[rdjohn]

Thank you all, for your recommendations.

There must be one there that ticks the box

[eeLee]

Rollin said:

pdfgear

this. All platforms. Edit capabilities. Free.

[rdjohn]

eeLee said:

Rollin said:

pdfgear

this. All platforms. Edit capabilities. Free.

I have just downloaded this, and frankly it seems to have more features that the last one that required a subscription. And it seems much more simply that the free Adobe Acrobat offering.

Thanks everyone!