Wednesday, December 28, 2005
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I was just reading a post by Scott Hanselman on switching off of Acrobat Reader to Foxit's Reader.  I must say I wish I had known about this tool a long time ago.  While I've never had Acrobat crash as Scott did, I've never really enjoyed using it.  Among other things its load time was WAY too long simply to read a document (sure, there are ways to speed it up, but it's a headache).

  1. Gone are the load times; Foxit Reader 1.3 loads almost instantaneously.
  2. Gone is the bloat; Foxit Reader is about 2.5 MB and runs without an installer and with a smaller memory footprint (about 50% smaller).

It's added to my \Tools directory and my thumb drives...awesome!

Wednesday, December 28, 2005 5:34:00 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [4]  |  Trackback
Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:15:00 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Finally something to get rid of Adobe!!



Adobe has to be the worst company on the internet!
Saturday, December 31, 2005 6:05:00 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Yep -- glad to see folks are as upset with Adobe as I am. This group of developers have never been tasked with creating a really good product. Adobe never left the MAC world, IMO, though the majority of computers users did.
Sunday, January 01, 2006 4:11:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Acrobat Reader is a hog and is far too slow for what it's supposed to do. I'm glad to be off to something smaller and more tuned to it's expected task - reading documents.



I bet they could even make it smaller if you wanted to use a 'slim' version that removed all notions of edition - I simply want a viewer - nothing more. But I'm happy with what I now have :)
Monday, March 13, 2006 2:36:00 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I personally use Acrobat Rader 4.0.5. It's significantly faster than the heavy version 7.
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