The editor comes in two paid tiers. PDF-XChange Editor, which allows you to edit text and graphics, annotate and secure documents, and create and convert PDF files, costs $56 for a single license.

PDF-XChange Editor is also excellent for converting documents between PDF and Word formats, and even includes OCR (optical character recognition) for converting scanned documents into editable text.

The PDF viewer you choose is really dependent on what you need to do with the PDFs you download, but when it comes to viewing and editing PDFs, PDF-XChange Editor is the best program around. [jump ...