Adobe Reader 8.0 Released

[LG1]

I find it is a great leap from v7. ROFL when ppl say this is bloatware and 20MB is big welcome to the 21st century some downloads are much bigger for example norton products thats a real example of bloatware

[Raa]

:( The Enterprise lockdown keys from 7 don't appear to work with this version either.

The what? Where?

[brlmedia]

impressive. "just dreams one day adobe wouldn't put a desktop shortcut"

[C++]

2 pages of responses, and all I see is people yelling "ew, 20MB" and routing for Foxit Reader, vs. people saying Acrobat Reader 8.0 is great and works very fast. Has anyone actually compared the two yet?

[[bear]]

20.8MB, no thanks :x

what are you running a 512 MB harddrive with a 28.8k dialup connection? :rolleyes:

[amrinders87]

Anyone else notice this on the download page? :whistle:

[C_Guy]

Oh goody! I hope it comes with Adobe PhotoShop Crap Edition and at least 2 or 3 toolbars. Then I hope it takes forever to download and install just like version 7. Hopefully it will also put yet another program in my Startup folder *without asking* to make my computer login that much slower.

Or I can skip it and read PDFs with version 6. It's not like I need to do much besides view and print anyway, it's a reader.

Someone give Adobe some Pepto Bismol to help with the bloat.

[:: Lyon ::]

Don't justify a bloat by its filesize....

[Windam]

Hey goodnews guys!

It's not Sh*t

dramatic speed improvement

24MB ram usage.

[nvllsvm]

FTW - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

[acoustikrage]

Oh goody! I hope it comes with Adobe PhotoShop Crap Edition and at least 2 or 3 toolbars. Then I hope it takes forever to download and install just like version 7. Hopefully it will also put yet another program in my Startup folder *without asking* to make my computer login that much slower.

Or I can skip it and read PDFs with version 6. It's not like I need to do much besides view and print anyway, it's a reader.

Someone give Adobe some Pepto Bismol to help with the bloat.

i can't tell if you're being serious or not, but you can download it without any toolbars and i'm pretty sure you can disable the startup service. try it, it's much faster than 7.

[Slimy]

Hey goodnews guys!

It's not Sh*t

dramatic speed improvement

24MB ram usage.

2.4MB here for Foxit. Interesting.

edit: Hmm, it dropped a bit after inactivity.

[iSimx]

excellent. downloading now.

[CrimsonKnight13]

20.8MB = a couple seconds of unwasted bandwidth... I don't see why people whine about minuscule sizes. As if a broadband connection hacks up some blood up when you do so...

[metallithrax]

20.8MB = a couple seconds of unwasted bandwidth... I don't see why people whine about minuscule sizes. As if a broadband connection hacks up some blood up when you do so...

you seem to think everyone is on broadband. Not the case.

[L3thal Veteran]

Thanks for the update (Y)

It looks very polished and loads up fast even after deleting their .exe to speed up the program.

[Virtunate]

Adobe Reader= Useless piece of bloatware.

Use Foxit

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

Quote - (slimy @ Dec 5 2006, 15:00)

20.8MB, no thanks

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what are you running a 512 MB harddrive with a 28.8k dialup connection? :rolleyes:

LOL! And i'm loving version 8 :)

[+virtorio MVC]

Wow, this is probably the best version of Acrobat Reader released to date. Much faster than previous versions and it looks great.

[CrimsonKnight13]

you seem to think everyone is on broadband. Not the case.

20.8MB isn't even that bad on narrowband.

[Quillz]

HAHA! i love you people that complain about things being like 20MB plus! OH NOES!! loltruck, get a good internet connection and stop complaining!

Also.. more RAM wouldnt go a miss! with vista coming out soon everyone should be considering 2GB min!

You can run Vista fine with 1 GB. I'd wouldn't consider 2 GB to be a standard just yet.

[rado354]

Thanks for the update :)

By the way, it's ready:

>> Addon << for those who integrate it into their Windows installation CD (and our guide HowTo Do It ) :yes:

nJoy :cool:

[MrBear5587]

Great update to the Adobe Reader series. Definately an improvement over v7, looks nicer too.

Thanks for the news :)

[tmaxxtigger]

Works like a charm. FoxIt has problems with javascript, but this works nicely, and it's fast now, finally!

[Rob Veteran]

Regardless of whether anyone chooses to use Adobe Reader or not, I personally have noticed a huge speed difference in loading PDFs and for that reason I'm damn pleased with this new version.