PDF reader alternatives?
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My bad. Forgot to mention free, which is the only reason I currently put up with Adobe.
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
Foxit reader is free. :-D
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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It's not the glacier like speed at which Adobe Reader opens that gets to me. It's the draconian update engine, which I find irritating on a number of levels. What alternative readers to you guys use, and how intrusive is the installation?
Christopher Duncan wrote:
It's not the glacier like speed at which Adobe Reader opens that gets to me
There is a new Indian PDF glacier like reader that opens 22 times quicker than the older glacier like reader. At least according to a number of scientific bodies, the UN, and a load of hearsay. :)
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Foxit reader is free. :-D
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
Oops. Saw, "Try it free" and translated to "Free trial before paying." See what evil things advertising has done to the Internet? :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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It's not the glacier like speed at which Adobe Reader opens that gets to me. It's the draconian update engine, which I find irritating on a number of levels. What alternative readers to you guys use, and how intrusive is the installation?
Foxit. Also remembers document position between instances. Not sure whether Adobe does now but it certainly didn't. You do get a small banner ad at top right of title bar but not intrusive. There's a Firefox plugin, but it appears that you avoid them. However, it's more stable than the corresponding Adobe one, it's never crashed on me.
Kevin
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It's not the glacier like speed at which Adobe Reader opens that gets to me. It's the draconian update engine, which I find irritating on a number of levels. What alternative readers to you guys use, and how intrusive is the installation?
Another vote for FoxIT
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It's not the glacier like speed at which Adobe Reader opens that gets to me. It's the draconian update engine, which I find irritating on a number of levels. What alternative readers to you guys use, and how intrusive is the installation?
Foxit's font rendering in terrible compared to Acrobat. So I use it mainly to find the PDF I am interested in or for quickly going throught a document. For reading long documents I use Acrobat with all plugins disabled. You will be amazed at how fast acrobat loads with no plugins. -Saurabh
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Foxit's font rendering in terrible compared to Acrobat. So I use it mainly to find the PDF I am interested in or for quickly going throught a document. For reading long documents I use Acrobat with all plugins disabled. You will be amazed at how fast acrobat loads with no plugins. -Saurabh
Eh? What's wrong with SumatraPDF - tis smaller than foxit and is on its own executable... :laugh: opensource + free... Best regards, Tom.
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It's not the glacier like speed at which Adobe Reader opens that gets to me. It's the draconian update engine, which I find irritating on a number of levels. What alternative readers to you guys use, and how intrusive is the installation?
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Eh? What's wrong with SumatraPDF - tis smaller than foxit and is on its own executable... :laugh: opensource + free... Best regards, Tom.
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Did I say there is something wrong with SumatraPDF? In fact I never heard of it before today. Just for your information Foxit reader also comes as single executable and is meant for portable use. Its just that I am not quite happy with its font rendering. -Saurabh
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Eh? What's wrong with SumatraPDF - tis smaller than foxit and is on its own executable... :laugh: opensource + free... Best regards, Tom.
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How do you find SumatraPDF to be for printing? The forums say that it's slow and produces massive print spools.
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine