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- Kylde, on 07/04/2008, -11/+459lol, precisely why I use foxit reader
- PrometheusZero, on 07/05/2008, -11/+362I think he's being sarcastic... not sure though.
- Sacrifice, on 07/05/2008, -4/+301I don't drink coffee, so Reader 9 may not be so exciting for me.
- PurgueFlantar, on 07/05/2008, -3/+269For those of you that aren't aware: Foxit PDF reader is a complete replacement for Adobe Reader. It is small and opens in a flash. It does NOT put icons all over your PC desktop and start menu, will NOT put icons back on your PC after you delete them and does NOT install an auto updater that is nearly impossible to disable, will NOT check for updates before opening the PDF causing a 30 second hang of your PC, etc
Foxit is available for free dowload from the below link. There are other suitable replacements for a PDF reader, any of which I'm sure are similarly superior to Adobe's.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Sorry to get a little heated but I run an IT dept for about 100 users and between Adobe's reader, pro, flash, and framemaker, I spend a large percentage of my time battling wills with Adobe's autoinstallers and updaters that end users don't have the rights to run (not my choice) so they watch progress bars go up... then down.... then up....... then down again.... repeat. - kd420, on 07/05/2008, -2/+141After reformatting I almost installed Adobe Reader instead of Foxit and had to cancel the installation in a cold sweat. I try not to think about what might have happened that day...
- modusop, on 07/05/2008, -6/+107Why would any Mac user want this? Preview is fast and light, and has great editing features. One time I was in a bind and cut some stuff out of a picture using Preview (when Photoshop wasn't available.)
- UncleCrapper, on 07/05/2008, -2/+83If you are doing professional print work you definitely would not be using Adobe READER. The fact remains that with each new version Adobe Reader continues to rocket toward the threshold where its utility is outstripped by its obnoxiousness. There is no reason for a PDF viewing utility to require 210 MB of hard disk space once installed, especially when Foxit is only around 3 or 4 MB.
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -2/+75You people don't get it, do you? Adobe Reader 9 is all about the Crysis easter egg hidden in it. Opening a PDF document may seem slow to you, but only because the hidden game is preloaded in case you feel like playing first person shooter during that boring meeting. Get a clue!
- Premier, on 07/05/2008, -2/+74I've never understood the need for such a bloated piece of software, there's no reason a program that allows you to see a page should be as big as an os install disk.
- SuckMyDigg, on 07/04/2008, -4/+70Search for Sumatra PDF as someone mentioned in the comments for an awesome lightweight open source pdf reader.
- p13t3rm, on 07/05/2008, -7/+69What exactly are the benefits of updating to Reader 9?
- serenityflexed, on 07/05/2008, -6/+66Using Evince on linux.
- vspazv, on 07/05/2008, -2/+54to me Foxit is like my motorcycle. It's fun and fast for getting around but is abolutely useless for most of my work requirements.
I work with full page newspaper advertisements that make foxit curl up and die when it attempts to load them. After waiting 10 minutes for it to redraw the screen 15 times (multiply by 5 if I actually try and scroll down the page) it then lets me print one copy of the form (no high volume prints for you!) and then sends the document to my printer in a format that makes my HP 9000 sit there for 4 minutes between pages.
With adobe it takes 40 seconds to load the page (redraws twice) then lets me print out 120 copies in 3 minutes. - p13t3rm, on 07/05/2008, -4/+55Negative diggs, for an honest question. Really?
- SonnyW, on 07/05/2008, -2/+52The coffee, duh.
- HAKdragon, on 07/05/2008, -2/+47"I could only thank Adobe’s engineers, presuming they were filling up my hard drive with yummy icons, tasty DLLs, and amazing 3D JavaScript add-ons. No matter — the 210 MB it required was there to be used."
I remember when people balked at the fact that Windows 98 need around 200MB of hard drive space. - dragon76, on 07/05/2008, -0/+38Or you could just use Preview.app.
- MFF37, on 07/05/2008, -3/+39dugg for "You broke my sarcasmeter." ..lol
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -3/+39For you? None.
For Adobe? A chance that you'll install their eBay bar and make them some ad money
EVERYBODY WINS! - borninda818, on 07/05/2008, -1/+36May I suggest tea.
- saxreturns, on 07/05/2008, -4/+32Less hard drive space, an extra start menu item, and more time for coffee. You don't really need to ask the question when the article answers it for you...
- bigredgpk, on 07/05/2008, -2/+30Including your mom?
- blackjack75, on 07/05/2008, -0/+25Preview is actually pretty powerful when it comes to PDFs (considering it's only supposed to be a general purpose viewer). You can crop PDFs, add or remove pages (just drag them from another PDF), rotate pages etc.
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -4/+28Foxit FTW!
- shadowmoose, on 07/05/2008, -2/+25I believe the point of the article is that all I want that program to do is open simple pdf files. Nothing more, nothing less. I rarely use or see that format so I don't want to waste space on the program I may use once a month.
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -4/+25Preview ftw, if you are in windows try Foxit reader
- illustrick, on 07/05/2008, -4/+25.....would you expect anything less, this happens with any standardized platform, once it becomes mainstream it becomes bloated and almost unusable.
- p13t3rm, on 07/05/2008, -3/+24The article didn't answer anything really, he just kept bitching about the install process and went on and on about his coffee. I should rephrase my question, are there any IMPROVEMENTS in Reader 9?
- saxreturns, on 07/05/2008, -3/+24Oh you crazy anarchist rebel, you're so cool! I wish I was as non-conformist and trend-setting as you.
- bdub92, on 07/05/2008, -0/+20no...no there is no irony here...
- cadmiumpaint, on 07/05/2008, -3/+23Preview is the best. It will open a 1gb psd file or multi page PDF as easily as a small jpg. Comes with Mac OS. Pretty awesome.
- damndj, on 07/05/2008, -2/+21I've turned a lot of people on to FoxIT. After being long time Adobe Reader people, they are pleasantly surprised at how good FoxIT is. I agree.
- felipe82, on 07/05/2008, -0/+18I still remember the first time I installed linux (I think it was ubuntu 5.04) and double clicked on a 100 page PDF and less than 2 secs later the file was open.
It was nothing short of some sort of witchcraft to me, since I was using Adobe Reader 7 back then (waaaaaaaaaay more bloated than 8). - Ablue, on 07/05/2008, -13/+30Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
- fpaudon, on 07/05/2008, -0/+16@TheMidnight
I'm not digging you down because I didn't recognise the chorus, I'm digging you down because your comment was lame and your second comment reveals that your ego is decided by how many diggs you receive - blackjack75, on 07/05/2008, -0/+16Right, 65mb is so small for a viewer.
I remember a time when graphical operating systems fit on my 20 mb harddrive. - zulfy26, on 07/06/2008, -2/+18I think you're being sarcastic... not sure though.
- jakefloyd, on 07/05/2008, -0/+16Finally someone who looks at it logically. In the end, though it's a larger program, Reader does the job better than Foxit. Whenever I am trying to export in PDF format from CAD, opening the file in Foxit will take quite a while while it draws it up. Then, everytime I scroll it redraws it. So unbelievably slow for high quality or high res files.
- zakatov, on 07/05/2008, -2/+17PDFs are great, Preview (and OS X in general) handles them wonderfully, it kills me that Adobe is making everyone hate them by releasing this garbage.
- lordkenthegreat, on 07/05/2008, -1/+14None.
- Ev3nt372, on 07/05/2008, -7/+19Whenever I go to fix somebody's software problems along the way I usually end up uninstalling Adobe PDF Reader then going to filehippo.com and getting Foxit Reader. I use Foxit Reader and doPDF to "print" docs in PDF format http://www.dopdf.com/. I also have a matching set of programs for the XPS document format found here http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/viewxps.mspx.
PS: Somebody seriously needs to make a FREE on Bitorrent! sticker to slap on those $700 Adobe Photoshop boxes I just cant help but snicker whenever I walk past them. - gaberowe, on 07/05/2008, -1/+12Adobe thinks that if you were OK with waiting 30 seconds to load a PDF in 1999 on your Pentium Pro, then you should still be OK with that. Therefore, if the base functionality loads a PDF in 5 seconds, then you have 25 seconds to load all sorts of random crap along with it!! Also, while you are at it, you should ask them if they want to update their version of Acrobloat to version 8.1.2.5.3.1, which adds exciting new features such as font mangling when you least expect it--particularly on page 50 of a 200 page document.
I used FoxIt and CutePDF writer... my life is about a billion times better because I open PDFs all the time being a grad student doing lots of literature searches... I got so used to going into task manager and finding acrobat or acrord32 and killing the process I could probably do it with my eyes closed. What's hilarious is that FoxIt doesn't need a constant memory resident program, and Acrobat does, but still FoxIt loads PDFs faster... ha! I just don't know what the heck is wrong with Acrobat--they really blew it! - seventhc, on 07/05/2008, -1/+12I used to hate PDF's until I stopped using adobe. I use 'Evince' on a linux box and PDF's open instantly. Back when I was using windows with adobe, I cursed whenever I had to open a PDF.
- DaySeven, on 07/05/2008, -0/+10abobe reader lite is good, too
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/Adob ...
thank shark007, he has also repacked itunes to make a 'lite' version, but he's probably most famous for his vista codec package. - arjie, on 07/05/2008, -1/+11Are you sure about that? Somehow while everyone touts the fact that graphic designers use Macs, I have actually seen well paid designers who use Windows, and I have met designers who use Blender on Linux. Not to say that I haven't met my fair share of Mac-enthusiast designers, people who would work with nothing but a Mac pro, and sure Macs were over-represented with respect to the general population, but are Mac-users such a large percentage of Adobe's base really? Some numbers would be nice.
I'm pretty sure that Adobe will be around even if Macs get some program that's superior to their creative suite. There's a lot of inertia anyway, lots will stick to Adobe because 'everyone uses Photoshop'. - arjie, on 07/05/2008, -3/+13Ironic that you should call on Apple because Adobe makes you install completely unrelated applications to use the one that you want. You do remember the Safari-iTunes thing, don't you?
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -1/+10"Adobe will be gone in less than a decade"
Yeah when there becomes a halfway-decent alternative to Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, and After-Effects comes along, call me.
There is more to Adobe than just "ol' photoshop" its going to take more than the Gimp to replace a graphic designer's tool set. - kleverness, on 07/05/2008, -0/+9Okular rocks, it's very fast and good looking :)
- BinaryFragger, on 07/05/2008, -1/+10Celeron with 512MB of RAM? A lot of such computers are still in use, and perfectly usable for grandma to check her email and surf the Web.
You shouldn't need a quad core to view PDFs. - Modab, on 07/05/2008, -3/+12I manage a few hundred computers for public labs and classrooms, and we switched to Foxit Reader last year. It was quick to launch, but it had big problems when it came to printing, so many that we had to switch back to Adobe. Just a warning if your users will be printing alot. I'm guessing about a 3% fail rate.
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