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  • C Chris Maunder

    That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

    cheers Chris Maunder

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    abmv
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    adobe acrobat has additional functionality like support for digital ceritifcates , cloud apis , plugins supporting adobe acrobat pro like forms etc... hence the size... normally meant for enterprise or corp environments....who use adobe..they other readers don't have to support all this...

    Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long

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    • C Chris Maunder

      That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

      cheers Chris Maunder

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      Rob Philpott
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      Surely you mean 163.5 million bytes? Or are you using that simpleton MB for Apple users?

      Regards, Rob Philpott.

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      • R Rob Philpott

        Surely you mean 163.5 million bytes? Or are you using that simpleton MB for Apple users?

        Regards, Rob Philpott.

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        CPallini
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        He is correct: Kibibyte - Wikipedia[^].

        (flame war on vexata questio arriving)

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        • C CPallini

          He is correct: Kibibyte - Wikipedia[^].

          (flame war on vexata questio arriving)

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          Rob Philpott
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          Well, that depends on whether you accept the authority of a group who wish to redefine the meaning of an ubiquitous term stretching long into the past. I'll accept there's two mainstream meanings of MB out there today, but in my very humble opinion one is correct, and one is meddling. :)

          Regards, Rob Philpott.

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          • C Chris Maunder

            That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

            cheers Chris Maunder

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            Never heard of Foxit, but just downloaded free version (FoxitReader94) and the download is 74Mb... though it does seem to do a lot more than just display PDFs... good find, thank you!

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            • D DerekT P

              Never heard of Foxit, but just downloaded free version (FoxitReader94) and the download is 74Mb... though it does seem to do a lot more than just display PDFs... good find, thank you!

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              Lost User
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              I still use version 3.1: 9MB on disk and 8MB in memory.

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              • D DerekT P

                Never heard of Foxit, but just downloaded free version (FoxitReader94) and the download is 74Mb... though it does seem to do a lot more than just display PDFs... good find, thank you!

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                Lost User
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                I'm using the "portable" version (which goes for many apps), and Foxit contains a "facebook" plugin of 4 Mb after install. It runs happily without it. See \App\Foxit Reader\plugins.

                Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                • R Rob Philpott

                  Well, that depends on whether you accept the authority of a group who wish to redefine the meaning of an ubiquitous term stretching long into the past. I'll accept there's two mainstream meanings of MB out there today, but in my very humble opinion one is correct, and one is meddling. :)

                  Regards, Rob Philpott.

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                  CPallini
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                  I see you are not a HDD manufacturer. :)

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                    Rage
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                    Whereas this[^] is a 4kB executable. All live ray tracing.

                    Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

                      cheers Chris Maunder

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                      dan sh
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                      Just use chrome/edge. No need for those additional software

                      "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                        raddevus
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                        Chris Maunder wrote:

                        156 million bytes.

                        It includes the Adobe OS (AOS), which you need so you can read PDFs, of course. Next time you open a PDF file hit CTRL-C and type "shell AOS" and you'll get a command prompt. :laugh: No, I'm not serious.

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

                          cheers Chris Maunder

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                          Dave Kreskowiak
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                          For the installer or the installed size? I do repack and deployments. Acrobat Reader is one that I have to do about once a year and every year the installer gets bigger and bigger. It seems the installer increases in size 4 or 5 times faster than the code it's installing.

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                          • N Nelek

                            I don't use Foxit, has it all the add-ins to sign pdfs, comment, mark and so on?

                            M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                            I got rid of FoxIt when I realized it had a Facebook plugin.

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                              I'm using the "portable" version (which goes for many apps), and Foxit contains a "facebook" plugin of 4 Mb after install. It runs happily without it. See \App\Foxit Reader\plugins.

                              Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                              dandy72
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                              As per one of my messages above: The realization that FoxIt comes with a Facebook plugin is when I decided FoxIt needed to go. I realize it can be disabled (and you have to *keep* disabling after every update). But when the maker of a PDF reader decides that there has to be a component to integrate (in some fashion - *any* fashion) with Facebook - we can't possibly be on the same page. Myself, I use [Sumatra PDF](https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html). It's kinda ugly, but that's a non-issue.

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                              • C Chris Maunder

                                That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

                                cheers Chris Maunder

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                                Mark_Wallace
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                                And if you look at the settings, when you use it to import something to compile a pdf, you'll see that the default compatibility option is acrobat 4 -- so they've been bloating and bloating the thing for years, but it still produces files identical to the ones made in version 4. Something that always bugged me was that it's a huge shell around postscript, designed for working with documents, but there is no File-->New option. It can't even create one of its own files! I gave up on it -- sick of paying a couple of hundred for each update -- when it exceeded 80 MB (version 6). And I blame adobe for the fact that we're stuck with the comparatively lame XML, now, rather than postscript. Adobe acted like they owned postscript, so it fell out of use -- and then someone had a Great! New! Idea! called XML, which is like a stripped-down version of postscript, with its teeth pulled.

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                                • R Rob Philpott

                                  Surely you mean 163.5 million bytes? Or are you using that simpleton MB for Apple users?

                                  Regards, Rob Philpott.

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                                  Mark_Wallace
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                                  I can never remember which MB is which. It's a good thing it's not money; I'd get ripped off something awful.

                                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                  • C Chris Maunder

                                    That's the size of Adobe Acrobat. An app that displays PDF files. 156 million bytes. To contrast, Foxit Reader is 3.4 MB. My head asplode.

                                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                                    MacSpudster
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                                    Chris Maunder wrote:

                                    My head asplode.

                                    So, then, Adobe "got some 'splainin' to do"?

                                    The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac. The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it. ~ my brother Jeff

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                                    • D dandy72

                                      I got rid of FoxIt when I realized it had a Facebook plugin.

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                                      Nelek
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                                      dandy72 wrote:

                                      it had a Facebook plugin.

                                      seriously? for what? :confused::confused: :omg: :omg:

                                      M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                        Chris Maunder wrote:

                                        My head asplode.

                                        So, then, Adobe "got some 'splainin' to do"?

                                        The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac. The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it. ~ my brother Jeff

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                                        Mark_Wallace
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                                        MacSpudster wrote:

                                        So, then, Adobe "got some 'splainin' to do"?

                                        That's splain as the nose on your face!

                                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                        • N Nelek

                                          dandy72 wrote:

                                          it had a Facebook plugin.

                                          seriously? for what? :confused::confused: :omg: :omg:

                                          M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                          dandy72
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                                          I honestly never looked into the "why". I always tell others - the day I'm required to write code - any code - that does anything with Facebook is the day I retire.

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