Adobe Acrobat alternative?

In coming from a position of some ignorance here, Strategic has picked up on what I think I want and so far Foxit seems to fit the bill. I removed all PDF readers from the system last night (before going to a 10cc concert - anyone remember them?) so now in theory can download and install Foxit.; Hope I don't need a PDF reader to do this or is this Catch-22 all over again!!

Update - sorry if this should have been an edit on post #21.
I have installed Foxit evaluation and does exactly what I want - allows editing and all that.
One query - the evaluation copy plonks a great red 'Foxit - blah blah - evaluation copy' at the top of each page. I would prefer that there is nothing there on a fully paid-up copy: can anyone tell me what happens on a proper copy please??

I have the full suite, and it comes out clean. They usually put images on the document or make you waste time with ads to push you to buy the product.

correction to post#18.
There is an add-on in the UPDATE screen to add PDF-Creator, but it does
add the watermark UNTIL a license is purchased.

I guess I'm still recommending PDF995 which has a nag screen but creates a 'virigin' pdf output