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[smashguy]

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[+littleneutrino]

I generally use third party software because i find it to be more stable, and use less resources, however, i will give it a go and see if they have made any improvements to make me want to go back.

Performance is smoother However,

Adobe Acrobat Reader XI Uses around 111 of Ram whereas Foxit uses only 9Mb of ram to open the same PDF file.

[Avi]

Thx. Installed and works well.

[Glassed Silver]

Preview in OS X
Foxit in Windows

Never again am I going to use Adobe's solution when I have the chance to ignore it.

Glassed Silver:mac

[Colin McGregor]

littleneutrino, on 15 October 2012 - 02:03, said:

I generally use third party software because i find it to be more stable, and use less resources, however, i will give it a go and see if they have made any improvements to make me want to go back.

Performance is smoother However,

Adobe Acrobat Reader XI Uses around 111 of Ram whereas Foxit uses only 9Mb of ram to open the same PDF file.

Same but 138mb for Acrobat and 11mb for foxit to open the same pdf. I have 12gb of ram though so it don't matter either way but i prefer foxit so it stays

[funkydude]

It seems people are forgetting that so far, Adobe Reader is the only reader that actually bothers to implement a sandbox (excluding the Windows 8 PDF reader). Using other PDF viewers is the same as using say Opera, the "security" you gain is nothing other than it's low popularity. Even alternate PDF viewers have to push updates to fix exploits, and there have been several exploits for Reader 9 this year... but they don't run on Reader 10 due to the sandbox. It appears that Reader 11 has improved on it.

Note: I'm not endorsing the use of Adobe Reader (I use Windows 8's reader due to its sandbox) I'm just saying it might not be wise to just shrug it off

[Boz]

Colin McGregor, on 15 October 2012 - 02:59, said:

Same but 138mb for Acrobat and 11mb for foxit to open the same pdf. I have 12gb of ram though so it don't matter either way but i prefer foxit so it stays

Use Reader not Acrobat.. Acrobat loads tons of tools and features for authoring PDF files. That's why it's so big.

[Simon-]

Adobe Reader 8 & 9 was an absolute dog, and a lot of people switched to Foxit because of this.
Reader 10 (and now 11) is not so bad on a PC which is at least a Pentium 4, even if it uses more memory, it has 100% compatibility, has automatic update and it doesn't bundle other software with the updates (like Foxit)

[Marshall]

Adobe Reader is bloatware, to which most have switched to third party pdf readers.

For me it's Foxit. I don't read a lot of pdf's, but when I do, Foxit takes the cake.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole, and neobond holding it....I stray away from "reader"...foxit, or any other open source solution works best for my personal needs. Personally, I feel bad when/if people think they need either "adobe", or "adobe reader", or just "reader"....makes me cringe. So many alternatives that are way less hassle. But that's just my two pennies....YMMV.

[Glassed Silver]

Marshall, on 15 October 2012 - 06:38, said:

Adobe Reader is bloatware, to which most have switched to third party pdf readers.

For me it's Foxit. I don't read a lot of pdf's, but when I do, Foxit takes the cake.

I don't always read pdf's, but when I do, I read them in Foxit!



Glassed Silver:ios

[MS Pandya]

Adobe Reader or bust for me. I don't begrudge it the use of ~100MB of RAM, and it's nice and fast. It's also boatloads more secure (actually important), supports more features and generally does a better job rendering. I've found Foxit to be a bit iffy with PDFs now and then.

[francescob]

If you use Chrome you can avoid installing another PDF reader because you can just associate chrome to open PDF files, same for Firefox with the PDF.js plugin (that still needs lot of improvements though).

[Raa]

Thanks for the heads up!

Definately sticking with Adobe Reader. The alternatives don't even come close to being good for various reasons.

[Copernic]

Already posted:

http://www.neowin.ne...reader-xi-11000