[Tools] A Free Fast PDF Reader

Do you, like me, get weary of waiting for Adobe's PDF reader to do whatever it is that it feels that it needs to do at the moment before it lets you read your document?  Try the free Foxit PDF Reader, a lightweight and very fast alternative.  Sorry, Adobe, thanks for all of the free tech, and all that, but, over seven versions of evolution, your venerable Acrobat Reader has become *really* slow.  It used to be wonderful, back in the days when it was a simple PDF reader.  Foxit's contender weighs in at less than 1 MB and is lightning fast by comparison.  This bout was just won in round one by a KO.  New champ:  Foxit Software!

2 Comments

  • I would stand behind you blowing the "Acrobat is the slowest app on my PC" trumpet except that unfortunetly because of current events, you are dead wrong.



    It seems Adobe has finally heard our plea for mercy and Acrobat 7 (which ONLY runs on XP or 2003) is half the size of previous Acrobats, loads up twice as fast, and executes faster.



    And if you tweak it a bit (remove plugins you'll never use, turn off a couple settings) it will be even faster.



    Maybe 3 months ago I would have considered a 3rd party PDF reader, but considering the updates made to Acrobat 7, I stand behind it fully, and I use to despise Acrobat almost as much as Real Player.

  • I'm running Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 and now after having had it on my laptop for some time, I consider it the most annoying piece of software I have.

    I'm not even going to try to tweak this. I'm going to try something else, these guys from Adobe just don't get it.

Comments have been disabled for this content.