Need alternative for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Well everything I've run on XP has installed on win7, seemingly without issue. Even some stuff that I really thought would be too old.
However one program that i could not put on is Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0.

I terminated the install when 7 flagged it as having known compatibility issues.

So I'm looking for an alternative. I'd bought version 6 under a student license so got it for a good price, disinclined to pay full retail for a 7 compatible version.

Easy to answer.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

Runs quicker. Free.

Thanks, sure does run quicker. Don't suppose you know of any the lets me create/modify pdf .

No, Foxit Reader won't allow you to create or modify PDF files.

You have to have their Pro version to do it.

I use Nitro PDF Professional myself, much smaller footprint on the hard drive and faster too. Plus it doesn't load up a bunch of unnecessary junk like Adobe's Acrobat does.

What was the problem with Adobe acrobat 6.0 ?

OK. Just googled.Looks like a no go.

I never went so far as to completing the install to find out. Once I started the install 7 popped up a warning that there were known compatibility problems with this version.

So I just terminated the install.

I think you can save documents in MS Word as a PDF.
Don't know about editing.

In 2010 you can save doc etc as PDFs but, as you guessed, you cannot reopen the PDFs with word so cannot edit either.

Found this Mychael. Online. I have not tried it, but it looks interesting.
http://www.pdfescape.com/

Probably not of interest to you, but Adobe 8 works in windows 7

Thanks Dave, yeah does look interesting.