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- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -8/+84Because everything with the word "Fox" in its name is awsome.. except Fox.
- badfrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Official site. - JJP0223, on 10/12/2007, -4/+55Yes you are.
- mlkmnz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35Fantastic. I've often thought of looking for an alternative PDF viewer but have been too lazy. This is great.
Its always staggered me what a bloated, slow, buggy, peice of ***** Acrobat Reader is. A 27MB download to view PDFs? WTF!! - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31For me thats a plus.
I cringe everytime I accidentally click on a pdf file in Firefox, knowing Acrobat Reader is pretty much gonna freeze everything up.
EDIT: I hate you mlkmnz - mlkmnz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28I avoid opening PDFs in Firefox at all costs. Its slow and freezes my browser.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Foxit is fantastic! And at a fraction of the bloated ***** of all adobe products and without the ***** yahoo toolbar and adobe started album crap that get bundled with the damn thing unless you jump through hoops to download the crap-free version.
- SanTe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Here's a nice Firefox extension that will solve your PDF link agony:
PDF Download
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/636
When you click a direct link to a PDF you get a dialog box with the PDF's file size and these four options:
* Download it
* Open PDF (in external viewer like Adobe Reader or FoxIt Reader)
* View as HTML (in Firefox)
* Cancel
I like it. :) - dbug, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Yeah, my GF, my sister, my mother, my grandmother, my aunt Lucy, my hamster, my sexy neighbour, my hot math teacher, my other GF, my penpal from africa, my BF, my pet tortoise and I have been using Foxit Reader for ages and we're all happy little campers ever since!
- poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18if "it's just as great", why would i upgrade? :p
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13The site is dying pretty fast; I got speeds like 11 kb/s for the download. Here is a mirror:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/57069/foxitreader.zip
Enjoy! - GMD1987, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12If you have ever been frustrated with how Acrobat drains system resources, then this PDF reader is for you.
- rocjoe71, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I've been using Foxit Reader for almost a year now (found it via another Digg article: "10 best free applications")-- Once you try Foxit, you will never go back ...never.
- Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Go into Acrobat options, and look at the "internet" section. Uncheck the "show PDFs in browser". Ta-Da!
- SeanFL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I love small software that works. Now if someone can point me to a replacement for the bloated Nero that used to be 10 megs and is not 100+ megs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Works fine for me, unless you're talking about embedding a PDF in the browser, which is just a ***** idea. Why the hell would anyone want to do this? It just slows ***** down.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The last beta had quite a few rendering bugs. Hope they worked them out.
- _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8And yet another mirror:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Foxit_PDF_Reader/1102316680/1 - MCHampster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Congratulations, qylistromk.
You have the reading comprehension of a 1st grader. - triplehelix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7fantastic free program. smaller footprint, opens quicker, and doesn't try to get its fingers in everything like adobe does.
- RastaMahata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/
foxit for linux - jonish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What an idiot!!! Read the freaking story!!! Or at least just the headline!!!
- frukt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7"... unless you jump through hoops to download the crap-free version."
i realise this is not going to make me popular in this thread, but here you go, no need to jump through hoops:
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.0.8/enu/AdbeRdr708_en_US.exe - Four20, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4After going through and switching out all resource intensive software from my laptop about a year or so ago. I've used nothing else but Foxit Reader for my PDF viewing.
- Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Try and find Nero 6 somewhere. Nero 7 is crap.
- Blitzenn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4but Nero just works better in so many circumstances. The other stuff covers some of the bases, Nero covers nearly all of them. Depends on what you are trying to do. If you only burn music, then go out and get some freeware that will great like FreeRip and drop your files on the cd using your OS.
- rocjoe71, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@TimDugg: "foxit doesnt open pdf inside of ffox" ...some would consider that a bonus!
However, now that you put it out there how long until there's an extension for Firefox + Foxit? - _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You can set Foxit to be the default program for .pdf's, then just download the pdf like a normal file, but choose to open instead of save. Voila :)
- mlkmnz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6"I use the free adobe acrobat reader along with the free third party adobe speedup utility. It turns off all the extra options in reader that slows it down and reader ends up working very good. I use it inline with firefox and it works well."
That sounds like a whole bunch of unecessary pissing about. - triplehelix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5you can't give a good evaluation of software based soley on the beta.
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No one mentioned yet, it works GREAT in WINE W/ Linux :-)
(Well the older versions did anyway, my nix PC is dead atm, so if someone wants to back me up for this release, feel free to) - sorrow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm right there with you, mlkmnz; always kind of considered getting an alternative pdf viewer, but never got around to it. Now that this made digg's front page (and their bandwith got abused, lol), i feel stupid for having using adobe's bloated (44.5 mb for me!) program that offers tons of useless features
- phxbruzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Main issue... I have mixed size PDF docs that I need to print. (ex. 75 page PDF some are legal size, some letter) FoxIt won't automatically choose size of output paper. It will either make everything letter size or everything legal size. That's not good. For a simple quick reader though, looks like it works fine.
- soretito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I tested previous versions and this later one and always came to the same conclusion, adobe is a little slower but it renders much nicer images, compare for yourself:
Adobe reader:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3521/adobereaderwj0.jpg
Foxit reader:
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2433/foxitreaderen3.jpg
these were captured one after another in the same machine with same settings. - Uzd4ce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Pardon the newbiness, but how do I associate PDFs with Foxit in Ubuntu? I've got ReaderLinux in my applications folder, and I tried to add it to my defaults.list, but it didn't work. Thanks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It honors the "no print" bit, so it blows. DRM belongs in the trash.
- extremesanity, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I use the free adobe acrobat reader along with the free third party adobe speedup utility. It turns off all the extra options in reader that slows it down and reader ends up working very good. I use it inline with firefox and it works well.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23766-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html - tucker8235, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I had trouble with foxit on my tax returns. I couldn't fill in the pdf with all my info before printing it out and mailing it.
- ebmnoize, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have been using cutepdf maker and foxit reader!
awesome freeware stuff.
Goodbye Acrobat - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Official Site is now more professional, I think Foxit Software revenues are going up now, because their website has a new fresh look. I also like the idea of installing Foxit Reader with an installer. It only occupies 2.5MB of your hard disk, and is installed for every user of your Operating System. Great stuff for windows, now that Adobe company is planning to boicot windows Vista!!
- alrahman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3:woot: this is a neat app.
/me uninstalls Adobe Acrobat Reader :D - TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I switched back to adobe just yesterday, foxit doesnt open pdf inside of ffox
- wicketr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3zybch,
That's great that you don't like it opening in a browser. But others might. It's an opinion and a choice. The plugin should be available because there are people that want that feature. On another note there should be an installer too.
The Acrobat plugin is just as slow as the external program. I'm sure FoxIt could create a fast plugin that would look and act like the regular FoxIt application just inside the browser. And unlike Acrobat, when you leave the page, the plugin should close/die. - nmaster64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Does anyone know how this compares to Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional? The most imporant features in that for me are: PDF Printer, Crop, Save As JPEG. I keep Foxit on my USB stick for on-the-go, but something tells me Acrobat Pro has it beat for features. Except for that whole 20 seconds to load a PDF thing...
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I love Foxit, but in the office we use some programs that open pdf's internally and have to use acrobat....no option to save and open. It's a bummer.
- Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7No kidding. It absolutely blew chunks when it tried to render gradients. I gave up on it after trying to open a mobo manual in PDF format. It took 30 seconds to render every time I changed pages. For normal PDFs it was OK, but for some PDFs, it was impressive in the magnitude of its suckiness. (And how'd they manage to create something UGLIER then Adobe Acrobat?)
- lydgate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Then Foxit's like foobar. I choose the fast version that does what I tell it in both cases.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Just copy to your Program Files folder.
- kittimitti, on 07/15/2008, -0/+0I'm still waiting for tabs when having multiple pdf documents open, and custom bookmarking so when I close the PDF and open it again I can get back right to where I was last reading
http://relora.info/margot-gagnon.html
http://relora.info/map.html - akkuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Microburner is very nice for the simple things.
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