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After upgrading to w10 my adobe acrobat 9 is starting to lose functionality and of course adobe say it is not compatible with w10.

I use adobe to;

[*]Scan
[*]Add scans to an existing PDF document
[*]Create multiple and nested bookmarks
[*]Extract pages from the document
[*]Convert scans to text
[*]Highlight text
[*]Add text boxes or make comments
[*]Create and edit forms

Can someone recommend a PDF editor other than Adobe that can do this please?
I am not sure that I need the full optioned (and expensive) new version of Adobe. Not after freeware, happy to pay.

thanks

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One of the most recent reviews of PDF Editors shows Foxit PhantomPDF and Nitro Pro 9 both having 4.5 stars, beating Acrobat Pro X1 Pro.

You may wish to check out two free PDF editors first, AbleWord (mentioned in the article) and PDF-XChange Editor, which wasn’t reviewed but is mentioned a couple of times in the comments.

Hope this helps…

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Adobe Reader 9 is seriously out-of-date.

Uninstall Adobe Reader 9 from Control PanelPrograms and Features.

Then download/install Adobe Reader v11.0.10 from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.10/en_US/AdbeRdr11010_en_US.exe

Once you have AR v11.0.10 running OK download/install the latest v11.0.15 update from: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.15/misc/AdbeRdrSecUpd11015.msp

Your Adobe Reader should now work fine in Win10.

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thanks Coochin,

I don’t have teh reader, I have the paid version. I have also bought a new Lenovo Yoga 3 with a high def screen. Acrobat used to display nicely but after one of the recent windows updates acrobat stopped displaying correctly. I am over high priced software – and teh reader does not have enough features.

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Adobe Reader 9 is seriously out-of-date.

The original post was about Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Reader. There is a major difference.

That being said, Adobe Acrobat 9 is also seriously out-of date. It may be time to upgrade…

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I use Soda PDF and have found it excellent and versatile (but it presently costs $129 for the full professional version with Optical Character Recognition included. The Standard package, which permits editing and insertion of text, costs $59). You can chooses which add-ons you want for the free reader and only pay for what you need. See here for product details:

http://sodapdf.com/products/soda-8

I use SODA PDF in windows 10 (64-bit), but have also used it in Win 7 (32 bit) and 8.1 (64-bit)

My Rig: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core CPU; ASUS Cross Hair VIII Formula Mobo; Win 11 Pro (64 bit)-(UEFI-booted); 32GB RAM; 2TB Corsair Force Series MP600 Pro 2TB PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD. 1TB SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 NVME SSD; MSI GeForce RTX 3090 VENTUS 3X 24G OC; Microsoft 365 Home; Condusiv SSDKeeper Professional; Acronis Cyberprotect, VMWare Workstation Pro V17.5. HP 1TB USB SSD External Backup Drive). Dell G-Sync G3223Q 144Hz Monitor.

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I have downloaded a trial version of the basic Foxit which costs $89 and does what I need. It also displays well on a high def screen which is a big tick.

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You might also take a look at PDFill PDF Editor 12

I use the PDFill Writer for my PDF Printer and the PDFill Tools to combine pdf files.

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PDFill looks like a lot of moving parts…but it is

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