

But in Center Page and Fit Page view, viewer behaves like a traditional document-based, traditional Windows application and utilizes vertical navigation instead. In Continuous view, you can swipe left and right, use the left and right arrow keys, or click the pop-up, browser-like navigational controls that appear to move through the document. Sport three reading modes, Fit Page, Center Page, and Continuous. Open, view, read, and print Adobe PDF files of all versions. PDF Viewer for Windows 8.1 is such a reader that offers decent capabilities and performance as well as versatile functionalities as a native application and is extremely useful for those that typically stick to the Windows 8.1 desktop experience.

However, if you need more functionalities or need to collaboratively work with other native applications on the same desktop, you would definitely need a native PDF reader. Windows Reader presents a very simple full-screen experience, like other Metro-styled apps. In Windows 8.1 Microsoft provides its own Metro-style application called Windows Reader for viewing Adobe's popular document format.
