Again about a year ago I wanted a PDF reader that allowed me the ability to measure elements within the page. I was reviewing a lot of site plans at the time and printing them out to A1 and A0 was getting expensive and difficult to handle when using my mobile office i.e the car or train.
I also need to mark-up and comment PDF documents which it does as you would expect. Some of the properties like font and line colour can be in different places for similar elements so don’t give up looking you can change text from red you just need to do so before typing and then right clicking and in properties set as default.
I realise the version of Adobe has this functionality but Adobe has had enough money out of me over the years at inflated rates just because I live in the UK and not the USA.
Foxit Reader Pro used to be free to evaluate but had a charge of about $40 for a single user licence. Again I was happy to pay it but just rebuilt a laptop the other day and was installing my default set of tools and tried to re-licence the latest version. Well it transpires that I couldn’t do this because it’s free.
Warning just be careful when you install it as the prompts for installing tool bars and short cuts to eBay are littered throughout the install process.
It’s a sad day when browser bars and short cuts out strip real money.
Another plus point over Adobe Reader is that very large site plans seem to render much quicker on Foxit Reader which is the icing on the cake for me.
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