Timothy C. Hain, MD

This is an old picture of Dr. Hain when he had brown hair. Professor of Neurology, Otolaryngology, and Physical Therapy/Human Movement Science, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago IL, USA.

EMAIL ADDRESS: t-hain@northwestern.edu

This space holds helpful information about software and hardware and vendors that Dr. Hain has discovered by trial and error. Perhaps if enough of us do this, searches on these devices or companies will bring up more relevant information.

Foxit acrobat replacement

This company positions itself as a cheap and better replacement for Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat, of course, is priced very high -- about $250. This program is cheap and much faster. The reader (like Adobe's) is free. It is blindingly fast -- compared to Acrobat. This is worth a lot !

What it does is read most PDF files, as well as a few added nice things. It will capture graphics using the "snapshot" tool (this is a wonderful feature !). You can very quickly grab a block of graphics and paste it into a Word file.

What it doesn't do -- it doesn't fill in forms, it doesn't permanently rotate documents (which is too bad), and it doesn't have much capability for document manipulation.

Still, if you use a lot of PDF's, this program is fast and effective.