I got some follow up comments...
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http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/win-pdf-editor-2-0-4/#comment-380936*
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/win-pdf-editor-2-0-4/#comment-380911*
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/win-pdf-editor-2-0-4/#comment-380959(thank you, Giveaway of the day community!)
I collected the following information...
1. (advanced users only!) Microsoft® Windows® 2000/Windows XP. Intel® Pentium® III- of 4-processor?
http://www.xyclopsoft.com/blog/2013/01/07/get-free-adobe-cs2/ . Do read "*"!
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http://www.nitroreader.com/en/download . Again, mixed signals.
I almost decided not to download or test. This is what I first saw: PDF pro - Scan, edit, convert, OCR, and secure your documents like the big dogs (...) with a minor price tag.
But: Nitro Reader offers type text anywhere. With the Type Text tool, you can easily add text directly onto the pages a document. Nitro Reader allows you to easily expand upon or add to a particular portion of text, in whatever font, size, and color you specify.
After testing, I can confirm it does what I asked for: I can type text and save it. But I cannot re-edit existing text. It's just graphics. Kinda makes sense. Might go on my software list...
http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,8202.0.html .
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http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer . After spending way to long on their site, I decided not to download. Information on their sites, combined with the cyclic linking in their pages, contradicts each other. If you want, test and let us know. These links will get you started:
http://www.tracker-software.com/pdf-xchange-products-comparison-chart and the download here (look at the fine print under each software title)
http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads .
.. Karma!
Devvie
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* I was lucky to have an account with Adobe. I do not know if new accounts will get this serial too? I'll test in the future... Or reply if you know.
I installed it on Windows 8.1 x64 just fine, to my big surprise
I did get a warning 20225 in the end: unable to create Adobe PDF Port_Printer.
Also I found, from setup, the following details:
"Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional supports the following programs with PDFMaker: Version 2000, 2002, 2003 of Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Visio Access and Project. Version 2002, 2004, 2005 of AutoCAD, Internet Explorer 6, Publisher 2002, 2003."
It's a beast of a program. Fully packed with all the options: even text recognition (English) and editing was working! Did take some menu options, but it's there. Same for picture manipulation... I did not even ask for that
Problems I encountered. It did not install a start menu group. So right-click a pdf to open it with Acrobat. Also, Adobe product are THE target for virus makers. So make sure, BEFORE INSTALLING, to have anvir taskmanager installed. It will monitor the setup process and warn you for everything that happens and what is added to Windows's automatic startups, so you can disable it easily. Especially toolbars and the lot should be disabled (don't use Internet Explorer anyways - go Chrome). Such a popular old product should only be openend on PDFs you trust and nothing should be running or enable by default. Except for the auto update tool...
For myself, this will be my new default pdf edit tool. For my friends I'll install Nitroreader. And note to future self: see which languages are supported for OCR and how to install!