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Adobe Acrobat/Reader 8.1.1

Mercury_22   on 23 October 2007 - 02:57 · 13 comments & 9658 views

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#1 soldier1st on 23 Oct 2007 - 05:18
foxit is still better but the one thing that adobe has that foxit still has not perfected is the contents of pdf's always appear very clear and not jaggety but adobe uses much more memory compared to foxit and adobe adds a startup item that helps it load faster but slows bootup for it wheras foxit does not add anything.
#2 letbugin on 23 Oct 2007 - 08:27
big fan of foxit now. Adobe products are too slow
#3 Yogurth on 23 Oct 2007 - 09:45
Yup, Acrobat chokes on heavy graphic pdfs, while foxit flies through them.
(2 replies) #4 th3rEsa on 23 Oct 2007 - 10:50
It's not "Acrobat" Reader...
#4.1 testman on 23 Oct 2007 - 15:41
Read again, it's the patch for Acrobat AND Reader, hence the slash.

#4.2 th3rEsa on 23 Oct 2007 - 17:13
The slash hasn't been there, has it?
(3 replies) #5 soldier1st on 23 Oct 2007 - 18:51
switching from foxit to adobe is a no brainer as foxit has so many more stuff and it is fast and ultra light and did i mention not bloated?.
#5.1 bangbang023 on 23 Oct 2007 - 20:04
I don't see how Adobe is bloated. Plus, Adobe allows me to open a PDF in my browser windows without having to download it and open it separately.
#5.2 Yogurth on 23 Oct 2007 - 20:38
It wssentailly does the same thig as if You pressed Open instead of Save. It launches Acrobat.exe in the background. Only difference is that it is inside Your browsers window.
#5.3 bangbang023 on 24 Oct 2007 - 00:35
Quote - (Yogurth said @ #5.2)
It wssentailly does the same thig as if You pressed Open instead of Save. It launches Acrobat.exe in the background. Only difference is that it is inside Your browsers window.

Which is one less windows for me to worry about. Like I said, I used to use Foxit, but I prefer Reader 8.x to it.
#6 jamesyfx on 23 Oct 2007 - 21:00
Rarely open .pdfs, so I don't really need to look for any alternative. Adobe Reader is fine.
#7 PGHammer on 24 Oct 2007 - 02:08
I, on the other hand, download (and read) quite a few PDFs (in fact, most documentation comes in PDF format these days; most of said documentation has nothing to do with computers except that the products may *contain* CPUs and other computer components). For Windows, Adobe Reader has been and still is my PDF reader of choice.
#8 veegun on 25 Oct 2007 - 14:04
Most pc peripheral manual/documentation are in pdf and downloadable from vendor's websites. I always download and 'page through' the user manual before purchasing a product.

As for adobe acrobat being bloated, you could always remove un-needed plugins to speed it up. foxit reader is a bare-bones with very little customization options compared to adobe acrobat. I don't even think it supports plugins. But anyway, you could probably reach near-bare bones speed if you remove a bunch of plugins that comes with adobe acrobat

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