156 MB
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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
Inner platform effect. Adobe turned it's reader into a friggin' platform. It has support for JavaScript, ActionScrpt, some 3D stuff and whatnot. You can smuggle rather arbitrary data inside portable "documents". All those features increase code size. And to control all those features, Adobe didn't want to create a safe mode where everything except the document parts is disabled, no, they've added a broker system which again increases the size. I also think that it's ridiculous. They went for complexity for the sake of it and to deal with the consequences, more complexity isn't the best answer. I think Adobe could reduce the complexity, but they don't want to.