Once you’ve gone ahead left Adobe Reader in the rearview mirror, you can plug another persistent security hole by uninstalling Java (unless, of course, you have a compelling reason otherwise).

That’s just the tip of the ice berg, and even better, Nitro PDF Reader dumps nary a watermark on your documents-a rarity amongst free PDF creation tools.ĭon’t stop with Reader! Java is another frequently exploited platform. The free version of Nitro Reader can print (read: convert) virtually any document to a PDF, comes packed with collaboration, creation, and editing tools, and lets you embed your signature into any PDF. The final PDF reader of the bunch opens files slower than the other two options, but makes up for its somewhat pokey performance with a deep feature list-and it’s still the equivalent of an Olympic sprinter compared to Adobe Reader’s downright sluggish speeds. Foxit Reader’s not quite as fast or resource-friendly as Sumatra PDF, but it’s still incredibly lightweight, and it packs a few features you won’t find in Sumatra namely, PDF-to-speech functionality, the ability to fill out fields and add text to PDFs, and optional integration with the DocuSign service.

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