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- tabledesk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Those interested in this no-nonsense version of Acrobat should look into Foxit Reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
A rare non-Adobe PDF reader for Windows. Very slim, effective and full-featured. - OroCHU, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Or skip it and use FoxIt Reader or xpdf. Who needs a 20MB+ app just to slowly read PDFs anyhow?
- Zachariah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15You're supposed to sign up via http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html -- but this links to the "secret" URL that's provided once you do sign up.
I was sick of the Download Manager, so I looked into this -- hope it helps someone else (without having to sign up). - XxN3RDC0R3xX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15All hail FoxIt!
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php - fnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The PDF formats main purpose was not for beeing read on screen. It's for getting predictable results when you print the document on different hardware. Ppl in the DTP industry use PDF's when they send their completed work to printing houses for example. PDF gives you precision control of output when your work is going to print, I don't think flash paper will ever fill that position.
The Acrobat software may be bloated, but it still produces small, excellent looking PDF's. Plus, PDF's an industry standard by now and everyone's got a kind of PDF reader. That's why newer portable(?) document formats like Microsoft's Metro don't last a chance. - fnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The acronym PDF stands Portable Document Format.
"The imaging model of the Quartz graphics layer of Mac OS X is based on the model common to Display PostScript and PDF, and is sometimes somewhat confusingly referred to as Display PDF." --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Macintosh
Graphics companies and publishing houses started using Mac's in the 80's because of Adobe PageMaker (which Adobe acquired from Aldus), PDF was introduced in the 90's. - Godel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What's the difference between enterprise edition and the normal reader?
- joeljkp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Adobe Reader is a more technically accurate PDF viewer. If you value the accuracy of the PDF rendering, you'll use Adobe or GSView.
- CatFood, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9PDF is a technology first, file format second. Mac OS X uses PDF in their UI to render text, icons and other eye candy. It's built directly into Preview and Safari. That's why most graphics companies and publishing houses use Macs.
I'm not a fanboy'ing here, just look the history of PDF. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9This is just Adobe Reader. Not Adobe Reader ENTERPRISE Edition. Also, don't confuse this with the Professional version (it's not). Professional info: http://adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/main.html
- Spec8472, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Drop the "_DLM" from the filename it gives you, and it works just fine.
eg: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.0.7/enu/AdbeRdr707_DLM_en_US.exe
becomes
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.0.7/enu/AdbeRdr707_en_US.exe - fnot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If I send you a PDF with Jpeg2000 or JBIG compressed images for example, you WONT be able to read them!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Enterprise indeed! There's no MSI package. How are we supposed to deploy this throughout a large enterprise?
- superbnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5that is freaking awesome. thanks man :)
- Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7tabledesk.....beat me. FoxIt is great.
Loads mad fast, and has about a 2.7 meg download. - esoterica, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Or if you have Mac OS X, the built-in Preview app will display PDFs. As an added bonus, Mac OS X will create PDFs from any application -- another $300 savings over Windows for not having to buy Adobe Acrobat Standard.
- kendawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6$300?
That's why we have this thing called freeware. CutePDF is free software to print PDFs from any program.
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp - DyceFreak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5foxit reader is great, it starts up instantly, thats all I use now. the only disadvantage is that I cannot get it to open in web browsers, but that isnt a problem since you can just dl the PDF anyways.
- dickyducky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Preview" can't view some non-English fonts if there not embedded, e.g. Chinese
- Mike.ohara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Two nice utils
Foxit
and for creating pdfs a nice open source util:
PDF Creator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PDF Creator acts as a Printer but creats PDF files as output - flyguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Excellent link, hopefully will get the message in future we dont want all thier additional crap. Better still use : http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php even less crap included.
- stuffhappens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have mixed results -
6 always made Firefox go to 100% CPU and all-but hang the machine. If you backspaced it was 50-50 whether you got out of the PDF.
7 hogs the CPU but exits cleanly most of the time. - Monoboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If anyone is interested on the other end of PDF, where you are creating a PDF, I found that PDF Creator is amazing.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Unfortunately it's Windows only.
Any program that you can print from, you can create a PDF of that print. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ever browsed the web, pulled up a pdf, then gone on to another page after? At least the 7.x version we use within our company would still stay loaded in memory until the next reboot, using up about 25mb.
I can't get them to stop using it, but all of our images use version 6 as a result. Adobe's turned into a bonafide PITA resource hog. - hotspot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3 "..is os independant" ^ ??
Reqts:
* Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 (.NetServer2003)
Pricing:
Get FlashPaper Today: Single User $79
* FlashPaper 2 standalone is only available for Windows
source: https://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/store/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&view=ols_prod&category=/Software/Development/StandAlones/FlashPaper - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2on Ubuntu you'd could use Evince for viewing, as far as creation of the pdf's themselves I use OpenOffice.org2
- essdub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I came here with intent to post a link to FoxIt, but I'm glad you beat me to it. What does Reader Enterprise have that FoxIt doesn't? FoxIt is waaay fast, too.
- spyres, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Foxit is nice, but it messes up on some of the more graphically based pdf's I've rendered (that look fine in the adobe reader.
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Foxit is a great substitute for reading .pdf files quick and dirty. It doesn't compile and read ALL the formatting, though. In that case, I'd stay with the default reader.
But yeah, if there was a plugin that works just like foxit for the browser, that would save a ton of computer's lives. - jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's the big deal? Just ftp to ftp.adobe.com and worm your way down to what version you want.
- jzimmerman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Actually you can extract the files from the exe you downloaded. There are MSI files inside that which you can pass parameters to for silent installation etc... (hint...when you run the exe file, look at where the files are extracted temporarily and copy those where ever you want).
- ADSquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had to use a PDF that would only work in 7 before. I was filling out a government form which had fields linked to each other in such a way that it would automatically fill in fields on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pages for you which were the same fields (name, address, etc) - the form was basically filling out something in quadruplicate. The only problem was that the first page was slightly unique, so I couldn't just fill out the first page and print it off 4 times :(
Anyhow, older versions would only allow you to edit the fields on the first page, the other three pages wouldn't allow editing. Foxit doesn't seem to be very good about filling in information on PDFs (at least as of when I tried it 4 months ago) so I was stuck downloading 7. - nkour, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2foxit runs great via WINE
- amckern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for the acrobat reader - i have been after the 7.07 installer for a while now :)
- sabit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The most important feature is, is annotation and highlight. People who read/review a lot of documents in pdf format find this indispensable. The annotation feature is still missing from open source readers. Although Foxit seems to have it.
- spyres, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Practical experience has shown me that Joel is correct. Foxit (while a great product otherwise) does not render with the accuracy of Ghostview or the official adobe reader. If fidelity of rendering isn't vital, Foxit is a fine solution.
I need the fidelity in my work, hence I can't really use foxit much. - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Now if only Adobe could come out with a version that wasn't a slow, bloated piece of *****.
- TheGSRGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So what is the big deal with this version versus the other free version of Reader I can download?
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1People still use reader?
move over to foxit people. - sbassi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Did you try to fill forms with Acrobat 4.05?
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Don't forget the Linux Admins!!!!
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Thanks mike.ohara!!
Another piece of Bloatware off my system... - Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It says right on the page, "Download Adobe Reader Enterprise Edition"
- sabit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1SIGH ... still no Enterprise Edition for Linux.
- charlessw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The download URL is wrong, leading to a false file.
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/7x/7.0.8/enu/AdbeRdr708_en_US.dmg .
Remove the "AR" at the beginning of the URL:
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/7x/7.0.8/enu/AdbeRdr708_en_US.dmg - jackbauer007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0foxit is a great reader i tried it but adobe is more necessary for certain reasons like mentioned above
to speed it up to as fast as foxit just install Adobe Reader SpeedUp to get rid of the plugins that slow it down----------http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/ - Specter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I know it's been said a million times but this program really deserves it.
Foxit. Light Weight, no nonsense. - DaBigWorm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1FoxIt!!
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8Or if you have a Mac... no need for any extra software at all.
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