Thanks Tim. I've just purchased a 3 user license to trial with some users, myself included.
It's a learning curve for me because generating PDF's isn't something I'm usually involved in, so I have as much to learn and gain as anyone else. I take the point about the interface, but I suspect that's familiarity, and in our case I don't think we're looking to replace our PDF reader product, only the creation side. The good thing is I had some questions and emailed support and got a reply quickly, and that addressed my question(s) - prompt and not scripted which is encouraging. I'll get some people using it in anger and see how it performs over the next few weeks. ________________________________ From: Tim Evans [[email protected]] Sent: 18 August 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acrobat Alternatives - PDF-XChange? We use it here. It's a good product. I personally have no complaints with it. We've run into basically two issues with it, neither insurmountable: · Incompatibility with new Adobe PDF features It seems like Adobe, in their attempt to keep their lead in the software vulnerability department, keeps adding features to the PDF format. The most recent that I'm aware of is the ability to package multiple documents into a single PDF file. When you open one of these in a non-Acrobat reader, all you see is a page saying that you need Adobe reader to view this document. PDFXchange was about 6 months behind in releasing version that could deal with these files. Now, we have a training issue in telling people that they don't need Acrobat and showing them how to access the enclosed files. It's not difficult, just not immediately obvious to the normal user. We also had issues for a while with an inability to fill out Acrobat generated forms. Their support was very good to work with on this, and they came out with an update that fixed it about 3 months after we sent them samples of the problematic files. · Interface Differences The interface is very different from the standard Acrobat interface. We get a lot of push back from people that are used to Acrobat about how much more work it is to use. IME, once we sit down with people and show them how to use it, there are no complaints. The problem is usually that they are too busy to bother to learn (or be shown) the different interface. HTH …Tim From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Acrobat Alternatives - PDF-XChange? We currently use Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro to create anything other than basic PDF's. Acrobat isn't cheap, each new version of Windows and Office seems to break something unless you're running the latest version, and it's overkill for creating PDFs from Word documents or inserting/deleting the odd page from a PDF and perhaps adding a few stamps and saving it with some document security. A couple of people have recommended PDF-XChange which I hadn't heard of until today. I'll download the demo's and give them a try, but does anyone have any first-hand feedback on their products? Thanks, Paul ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
