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.