I'm looking for alternative to Adobe Acrobat and other Adobe software to read and annotate journal articles (which usually come in .pdf format).

Adobe is very expensive and my university does not offer it to students.

I've come across Foxit Reader. Has anyone any experience of this? Or can anyone suggest any possible alternatives?

Any suggestions welcome.

I use PDF XChange viewer and that was free to download, you might have to pay for additional features though. I don't read or annotate on it because I do that using Mendelay (keeping everything in the same place), but there are lots of different ways you can annotate documents using it, I actually think it's better than Adobe in that respect. Somebody on here recommended it when I had to delete Adobe becase it did something strange to my laptop.

Natassia

Thanks for the tip. I'll look into this.

Hi. I actually starting using foxit reader about 2 months ago to read through and comment on a document available in pdf only. I found it really good and easy to use (my mum managed to use it as well...she is not computer illiterate but not the most tech savvy person out there by no means). I have in fact changed from adobe acrobat to foxit as a default option. The commenting options are really good. it is free to download so just give it a try;

Ailicec
Thank you. I'm going to try Foxit.

I find Mendeley to be fantastic. I used to faff around with EndNote and Acrobat, but jumped on board with Mendeley in beta stage. It used to bug out a lot, but now it's out of beta and on a stable build, it's super. Annotating, highlighting and notes are quite good on there already, but I think they're looking at improving that functionality.

Thank you for this. I'm going to download PDF XChange and Foxlit as trials to see which works best for me.

Hi LBaines,

Have you checked out the student discounts on Adobe Acrobat? I know even with 80% off its still quite expensive buts its hard to beat as a piece of software and might be a worthwhile investment.

Give Qiqqa (pronounced "quicker") a try. It's free! It is Windows and Android tablet software that allows you to full text search your PDFs, annotate and highlight them, and then summarise your annotations in a single annotations report. It also finds the themes across your PDFs and allows you to explore these themes visually in a brainstorm. Qiqqa automates writing up your bibliography in Word in over 2000 journal styles. It even suggests what you might want to be citing as you type. http://www.qiqqa.com

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There's Foxit to read PDFs and Foxit Pro that does all the Adobe Acrobat stuff at a lot less cost.


Ian (Mackem_Beefy)