The good news is that PDFXE can also be made portable with the addition of a ' portable.dat' empty file, making keep settings in its respective folder and leaving no significant traces on the system (tested under Windows XP Pro SP3). I was unable to (Uni)extract the installer, so I had to perform an install-copy-uninstall cycle to get to PDFXE files.Ĭompared to the predecessor, the program doubled in size (I ought to qualify this: my PDFXV folder contains only the executable and its settings, plus the separately downloadable help manual, and OCR files for 4 languages, namely ' eng', ' fre', ' ita', and ' spa' the PDFXE folder, after some trimming, contains mainly the executable and settings, but there are sub-folders for ' Plugins', ' PluginsData', ' Dictionaries' - currently for 3 languages - and the separately downloadable PDF user manual).Īnother difference is the fact that PDFXE now supports the loathsome ribbon toolbar, with no option to return to the thinner one that characterized PDFXV.

Please see here for a breakdown of the main features of PDF-XChange Editor. Create, view, edit, annotate, OCR and digitally sign PDF files - and that's just the beginning. nge-editor), currently at v5.5.311.0 (updated changelog is at ).Ĭontrary to PDFXV, there is no readily portably packaged PDFXE available for download, only an installer. PDF-XChange Editor The smallest, fastest and most feature-rich free PDF viewer/editor on the market. It looks like Tracker Software is about to abandon a propserous PDF-Xchange Viewer ( PDFXV) in favor of a less famous sibling with PDF editing features.

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