Comments on: Say Adios To Adobe

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:28:56 +0000

Nope, sorry. I hate Adobe Reader. It bogs down my laptop which, admittedly, is not top of the line. It’s a laptop that I use for word processing and reading things online… you know, like Adobe Reader is *supposed* to make possible.

By: kimsch

kimsch — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:23:46 +0000

Donna, me too.

By: Alisha

Alisha — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:10:37 +0000

I was going to say exactly what Timmer said above. It is very easy to copy text from a PDF. I’ve had to work with PDFs for a few years, copying text from them and then pasting into another app.

What version of Adobe Reader do you have? Because the version I have (9) lets me save as a txt file. Adobe Reader is free and full functioning.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:55:17 +0000

Yep, that’s what caused your first comment to go into moderation.

Thanks for the tip on Foxit. Me likey.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:07:05 +0000

Hmmm…fist time I tried this comment, it wasn’t posted…will repost:

Adobe “Anything” is a bloatware joke. If you absolutely need to open PDFs download Foxit software’s Foxit Reader…it’s freeware and…ta da..opens PDF files…plus you can highlight text and copy it to the clipboard. All that for about 2Mb of disk space..hell, I have the thing running on my memory stick. Compare that to Adobe Reader and it’s constantly increasing size requirements – here at the office on the “official” workstation build – it’s bloated up to 107Mb…to read freaking PDFs.

Foxit also sells a PDF Creator and a PDF Editor, both of which will be a helluva lot cheaper than anything Adobe puts out.

Just go to foxitsoftware(dot)com (NOTE: I had the full URL here, maybe that’s why my post didn’t come through?)

By: Timmer

Timmer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:18:21 +0000

Copying and pasting from a PDF text file is easy. All you have to do is select the proper tool from Adobe Reader. There’s a text copy tool in reader but it’s not on by default, you have to turn it on. Once you do, you can cut and past all day long.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:02:11 +0000

Sorry to disagree, but there are some things Adobe Acrobat works just fine for. Of course, I say that because I’ve always had the full version on my computer and have no trouble copying and pasting, or converting to images.

Yeah, the price is a little high for full functionality, but keep in mind that the creator of an Adobe document has much greater control over what the end user can do with it. I absolutely adore the ability to create documents that others cannot change in any way.

By: terry

terry — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:10:44 +0000

I also try to copy and paste text from pdf files to work with in Word… pain in the ass. I’m going to check out the link. Thanks!