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  1. Re:PDF docs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Security Skins: Single Sign-On with Images

    If you're using Windows, try Foxit PDF Reader. It works great on my PIII 400. Every PDF I've looked at has looked fine and scrolling is much smoother than in Adobe Reader.

  2. Re:Ironic by kaoshin · · Score: 1 · on Open Document Format Approved

    My windows solution was to use the free Foxit Reader. It is a reasonably sized standalone executable without a lame installation program or any bull like the activation notices and registration popups. It also lacks the excessive and graphically intensive garbage, context menu modifications, startup modifications, document compatibility issues, deployment complications, and other various annoyances you are sure to get out of Adobe products. Foxit doesn't have a firefox plugin yet so you can't view it in a tab, but it will easily open in another window, and it does it faster than acrobat from my experience.

  3. Re:Too late? by dabigpaybackski · · Score: 3, Informative · on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro'

    I got tired of Acrobat Reader and downloaded the free Foxit PDF reader instead. Tiny download, vastly better performance. Check it out.

  4. Re:PDF is A-OK by ahunter · · Score: 3, Informative · on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro'

    If you don't like acrobat, there are some alternatives for Windows that might be worth a try, not to mention stuff like GhostScript, xpdf, etc.

  5. Re:Good, now we can get rid of Acrobat Reader! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro'

    Obligatory plug:

    Foxit PDF Reader

    Free, simple, and much faster than Adobe Reader. Beware though, Adobe Reader doesn't like to give up its file associations without a fight...

  6. Re:Because only by joining forces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia?


    Okay. Look. Load time is an attribute of Adobe's PDF reader, not the file format. You can drastically minimize it by a) deleting all non-essential plugins in the program directory of Acrobat Reader, or b) installing something like FoxIt PDF Reader on Windows.

    PDF is a final mastering format -- it's meant as a way to distribute things which should be printed onto paper. For that, it excels in a way no other format does. For most other uses, PDF files are useless.

  7. FoxIt PDF Reader by Mad+Man · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia?

    Re:MS Paint (Score:5, Informative)
    by skyshock21 (764958) on Thursday April 21, @08:51AM (#12301598)

    A fellow Slashdotter posted an amazing fix for the perceived "Adobe Reader Bloat" you speak of. Here's the text that was posted the other day: . . .


    That fix is also described in MozillaZine.

    An even better solution is to uninstall Adobe's Reader, and install FoxIt PDF Reader, which is free.

    The download (zip) file is less than 1 MegaByte, so it can be downloaded even over a slow dial-up connection. By comparison, the download for Adobe Reader is about 15 MB - 20 MB.

    The entire installation for FoxIt PDF Reader takes up less than 2 MB of hard drive space. Adobe Reader takes up about 60 MB. I don't know what Adobe Reader used the other 58 MB for, but I don't miss it. FoxIt PDF Reader loads much faster.
  8. FoxIt PDF Reader by Mad+Man · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia?

    Re:MS Paint (Score:5, Informative)
    by skyshock21 (764958) on Thursday April 21, @08:51AM (#12301598)

    A fellow Slashdotter posted an amazing fix for the perceived "Adobe Reader Bloat" you speak of. Here's the text that was posted the other day: . . .


    That fix is also described in MozillaZine.

    An even better solution is to uninstall Adobe's Reader, and install FoxIt PDF Reader, which is free.

    The download (zip) file is less than 1 MegaByte, so it can be downloaded even over a slow dial-up connection. By comparison, the download for Adobe Reader is about 15 MB - 20 MB.

    The entire installation for FoxIt PDF Reader takes up less than 2 MB of hard drive space. Adobe Reader takes up about 60 MB. I don't know what Adobe Reader used the other 58 MB for, but I don't miss it. FoxIt PDF Reader loads much faster.
  9. Re:I'm scared. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

    I have one machine that I just cannot get any version of Acrobat to work on, at all. Usually that meant I would use another machine for PDFs. But one day that was the only machine I had access to and I had to read a PDF. Google to the rescue...
    Foxit Reader

    Small, fast, and doesn't deadlock when I launch it.

  10. Re:I'm scared. :( by mTor · · Score: 1 · on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B
    Get Foxit PDFReader instead. No spyware and even faster!


    I use a Mac so Preview rules my world!

  11. A PDF reader for windows that doesn't suck by Kevin143 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

    A PDF reader for Windows that doesn't suck.

    I use it with firefox. You click a pdf link. Foxit opens. It displays the PDF. It doesn't mess up your system. It runs quickly. It feels much more like reading a PDF on OS X or Linux, which is nice.

  12. Re:Child Porn Alert! by jayloden · · Score: 1 · on AACS Specifications Released
    You might like to check out Foxit if you want a PDF viewer for Windows that doesn't involve Adobe: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

    You may already know about this, or be a Linux user like me, but just in case, I thought I'd pass it along.

    -Jay

  13. Re:Acrobat is trouble, how about Foxit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on PDF Tracking On the Way

    Foxit is awesome, makes Acrobat look like the bloated piece of shit it is
    it hasnt got any of the crap acrobat has and is faster than fast, sometime docs can display a bit funny but 99/100 have been fine for me

    i seriously doubt foxit has any TCP components inside at all, you could always ask the developers in their forum, unlike Adobe their dev team will talk to you

  14. Acrobat is trouble, how about Foxit? by bigberk · · Score: 2, Interesting · on PDF Tracking On the Way

    As others pointed out, this potential for a security breach occurs of embedded javascript in a PDF document. Adobe's reader is vulnerable by default. Does anyone know whether Foxit (a totally free PDF reader for Windows) is safer?

  15. Re:xpdf by knisa · · Score: 1 · on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux

    Oops, somehow the link didn't go through.

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

  16. Re:It makes sense that it would be in PDF by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 1 · on Imagining the Internet

    Try Foxit PDF Reader; I love it. Displays PDFs nearly instantly (though I don't know how fast Adobe's is on this machine as I've never installed it).

  17. Re:Here's another law to add by AhaIndia · · Score: 2, Informative · on Six Laws of the New Software

    This isn't Firefox's fault. It is because of Adobe products.
    Just now I searched for a free PDF viewer. I found Foxit PDF reader, which is a free lightweight PDF reader.
    It opened the same document very fast.

  18. Re:Here's another law to add by dabigpaybackski · · Score: 2, Informative · on Six Laws of the New Software
    Disable the acrobat plugin.

    Yes, disable it, and use a quick and functional third-party PDF viewer like this one. Acrobat in an ponderous, bloated abomination, kind of like Mothra in larval form.

  19. PDF reader by OrangeGoo · · Score: 1 · on Free Windows Software Without Spyware/Adware

    I abandoned Acrobat Reader after it decided it didn't like my PC anymore, for whatever reason. Rather than reinstall it, I dumped it in favor of Foxit PDF Reader (clicky). It's much smaller, loads faster, and is almost as good as Acrobat Reader. Lacks text search, which can be a pain in the ass, but generally a good replacement.