PDF-XChange Viewer is a

freemium Freemium, a portmanteau of the words "free" and "premium," is a pricing strategy by which a basic product or service is provided free of charge, but money (a premium) is charged for additional features, services, or virtual (online) or physical (o ...

PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...

reader for

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. It was available in a free and a paid version. Its further development has been stopped in favour of the freemium

PDF-XChange Editor PDF-XChange Viewer is a freemium PDF reader for Microsoft Windows. It was available in a free and a paid version. Its further development has been stopped in favour of the freemium PDF-XChange Editor. It supports saving PDF forms ( AcroForms), ...

. It supports saving PDF forms (

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), and import or export form data in FDF/

XFDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...

format. Since version 2.5, there has been partial support for

XFA XFA (also known as XFA forms) stands for XML Forms Architecture, a family of proprietary XML specifications that was suggested and developed by JetForm to enhance the processing of web forms. It can be also used in PDF files starting with the ...

, and exporting form data in

XML Data Package XML Data Package (XDP) is an XML file format created by Adobe Systems in 2003. It is intended to be an XML-based companion to PDF. It allows PDF content and/or Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA) resources to be packaged within an XML container. S ...

(XDP) or XML format. It added OCR support as of version 2.5. Its Lite print driver enables the creation of PDF files from any Windows app that support printing. PDF-XChange Standard brings advanced PDF creation options. Several PDF-related SDKs are available for developers, including PDF Tools SDK, PDF-XChange Viewer SDK, PDF-XChange Drivers SDK, and Image SDKs. They enable creation, manipulation, reading, writing, OCR, search, and display of PDF contents in other applications. They support

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, C#, C, the classic Visual Basic, the modern Visual Basic,

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, and

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. Its Viewer is compatible with

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, providing another way to annotate PDFs on

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.François Savard,
PDF annotation under Linux with Wine and PDF-XChange Viewer
, Structure in the Flow, 11 March 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2012.

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