How to Quickly Open PDF?

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How to Quickly Open PDF?

12 January 2021 Amanda J. Brook Senior Product Manager

Last update by Emma Johnson at 4 February 2021

Summary
In these recent years, although many file formats are emerged, most of them are used for specific scenarios. For example, JPG is used for image; Word is for documents, not for application forms and financial statement. However, PDF can hold many file types, such as texts, fonts, colors, shapes with different resolutions and images. In this essay, we will talk about how to quickly open PDF files.

Content

Part 1: How to Quickly Open PDF?

1. Open PDF by Default
2. Open PDF with Chrome

Part 2: Learn about Renee PDF Aide

1. About Renee PDF Aide
2. How to Use Renee PDF Aide

Part 1: How to Quickly Open PDF?

Here are two ways to open PDF files.

1. Open PDF by Default

If you install these applications in PC, the PDF file will be opened by default, namely Sumatra PDF, PalmPDF, Evince, Preview, ePDFView, Okular and Xpdf. Right click at the PDF file and select [Open] to directly view the PDF file.

These are the functions of the PDF application mentioned above.

Sumatra PDF: It is the small, useful, free, open-source PDF reader. PDF, ePub, MOBI and CBR are supported by this application. It is very convenient to view ebooks within this application.

Evince: It is a file reader supporting various formats, such as PostScript, PDF, TIFF, DVI and DjVu. Besides, it supports the index of PDF files and encrypt PDF.

Preview: Preview is a tool on Mac. You can use this tool to open, edit, merge and delete PDF files. Besides, it can save PDF as JPEG and PNG. You can use the tools to draw shape, arrow, text and line, and add annotations.

ePDFView: It is a tiny PDF reader. It also offers some reading functions, such as adding bookmark, zooming in/out, rotating and searching text. You can copy and paste text from the PDF files with the application, too.

Okular: It is a file reader supporting to open PDF, TIFF, CHM, ODF, EPUB and MOBI. Besides, you can add annotation, highlight text, draw circle and add bookmark.

2. Open PDF with Chrome

It is very easy to open PDF files with Chrome. You can right click at the PDF file and then select [Open with] – [Google Chrome].

right click at the pdf file to open with google chrome

The above contents are about how to quickly open PDF files. If you want to clearly edit PDF files, we recommend Renee PDF Aide. Let’s learn about this software in the following part.

Part 2: Learn about Renee PDF Aide

1. About Renee PDF Aide

Renee PDF Aide is the software that supports to edit PDF and convert PDF. With utilization of the advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, it can convert PDF to Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Image/HTML/TXT and the other common formats. You can designate the specific pages to be converted at the speed of 80 pages/min. Besides, it can repair the damaged PDF files, compress PDF files to shorten the loading time, merge several files into one and rotate the file position. En/decryption and watermark are allowed to add for PDF files, too.

What’s more, Renee PDF Aide supports English/French/German/Spanish/Portuguese/Chinese/Korean/Japanese. Under the mode of OCR, it can greatly improve the accuracy of character recognition. Even though you are a new user, you can use this software easily.

Renee PDF Aide - Powerful PDF Editing Tool