1. Nitro PDF-Alternative: Foxit Reader
The "Foxit Reader" available free of charge. Compared to Nitro PDF the Freeware scores with many Features:
- One advantage is that Foxit also PDF opens files very quickly.
- With the here tested Foxit-Version 6.2.0, you can, among other things, text in PDFs, underline, or highlight, text fields, signatures , or insert comments as well as your own to create PDFs.
- The PDF Reader Foxit is it even for Windows, Android and iOS.
Foxit PDF Reader
2. Nitro PDF-Alternative solution: the XChange
The PDF Viewer XChange is another good Alternative to Nitro:
- With the Freeware XChange Viewer, you can insert comments in PDFs, page by inversion or texts and underline. Also convenient is that you can open multiple PDFs in Tabs or in a PDF export in a graphics program.
- However, there is also a Pro Version - here you can even insert pages, delete, crop, annotations, embedding, or sign.
- In comparison to Foxit XChange is similarly fast, but has more Features in its Free Version.
- The disadvantage is that The current Version 2.5.308.1 XChange is only available for Windows.
The PDF Viewer XChange
3. Nitro PDF-Alternative: Sumatra PDF
Also with the PDF Viewer Sumatra you from potential security holes in Acrobat Reader Adobe protected:
- The very lightweight, Open-Source Software Sumatra PDF is only available for Windows, but scores with good Performance and minimal loading times.
- Currently the Version is 2.5.2, where you can also get the eBook Format, MOBI, and Comics can open with Sumatra.
- To do this, you can install for the most common Browser add-ons and your PDFs directly display without the need for the PDF Reader launch.
- Like the other two programs, there is the fast of Sumatra, alternatively, in a portable Version that you can use in the Uni perfectly from the surf stick.
Sumatra PDF as Nitro-Alternative
By the way: A comparison of the PDF Reader from Adobe and Foxit can you find in our next CHIP practice tip.
