Foxit is amazing. Ever since I reformatted my machine, I've been trying to find apps that are free and fast (that 3200+ is showing its age!). Foxit is just one example of what awesome things are out there.
ugh. This makes the standardista in me cringe, but it's definitely useful for some.
PDF isn't proprietary any more; it's an open standard, and they're working on a way to markup PDFs as pure XML now. I expect when that's done the transition will be as easy as opening a PDF in OpenOffice.
Good news but it is time to give the word swank a little rest. Just don't make a mistake that I made and used the word shwank. And don't google shwank. You'll come away feeling jaded.
I've found that PDF to Word is a generally clunky program that only works on the most rudimetary pdf's and even then I've seen it flub more formating then not.
If I'm without acrobat and I need to edit a PDF I just use OpenOffice3 with the pdf import pluggin. It still doesn't always work depending on how the PDF was layed out but I've found it to be far more reliable then the linked converter.
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PDF isn't proprietary any more; it's an open standard, and they're working on a way to markup PDFs as pure XML now. I expect when that's done the transition will be as easy as opening a PDF in OpenOffice.
If I'm without acrobat and I need to edit a PDF I just use OpenOffice3 with the pdf import pluggin. It still doesn't always work depending on how the PDF was layed out but I've found it to be far more reliable then the linked converter.