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So get Sumatra. It's to Foxit what Foxit is to Adobe Acrobat.

Adobe Acrobat Reader (I think you mean Reader) has been nothing but bloat since version 4, not 6.

Sumatra PDF viewer http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

How about this one then?
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Use Sumatra PDF, or kpdf/whatever on Linux. Finally, an Adobe-free existence!

Sumatra PDF kicks Foxit's ass. And it's open source. Another piece of shitty bloatware (Adobe Reader) bites the dust.

I have no clue as to why this program takes upwards of a minute to read a simple pdf file that is mostly text. It really boggles my mind as to what the computer could be doing with that time/cycles.. Where as foxit can load the same pdf in a blink of an eye.. but microsoft loves to revert the extentions to adobe, unless I march through a convoluted maze to revert it back. never let your well-meaning friend install adobe on your box, it's a nightmare to remove.

In regards to the PDF problem: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ Sumatra PDF. Licensed under GPLv2. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php Foxit Reader. Not opensource, but does have forms support, among other things.

For media, I use http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ for DVDs, or Winamp for most everything else. All my mp3 players are USB Mass Storage, so I don't have to worry about special media management capabilities.

Then why do you use it? For PDF reading theres Sumatra or Foxit. There are many photo editing suites. If you just use Elements then the Gimp should be plenty. And Flash is useless. So for your purposes, why bother with Adobe software at all?

SumatraPDF is a free, open source PDF reader for Windows.
It is light-weight, ~1 megabyte.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Sumatra PDF is a very speedy and free (GPLv2) reader for the Windows people. (no affiliation, just a happy user.)

And if you need more OSS in your diet, there's SumatraPDF (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/)

SumatraPDF for Windows is really lightweight.

Nope, FoxIt pdf's started "advertising" it's pro version quite heavily in recent versions.

For a fast ad free pdf viewer try Sumatra:

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Sumatra PDF is better IMO. Plus it's Open Source. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Another good one is Sumatra http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html
It's even smaller and faster than Foxit, and it's open source. Not as many features though, it's mostly just a viewer.

It's minimalist, but I find SumatraPDF useful:

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

William

Sumatra PDF viewer is even smaller & lighter than Foxit. It's an absolute barebones PDF viewer... Plus it's GPL licensed. I tried it for a while, but I've since gone back to Foxit, as I need a few of the 'extra' features (like 'find text')

For those like me who have never heard of this before, Sumatra is an open source PDF viewer for Windows. Giving it a little whirl, it seems to render a couple manuals nicely. Links don't get parsed for easy clicking. Quick look at the forums seems to reveal it doesn't support password protected PDFs or searching.

For a very slim PDF viewer, it appears to be quite nice (and GPL to boot). Thanks to the parent for bringing it up.

I like Sumatra PDF:

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

William

Even lighter and faster than foxit: Sumatra PDF Reader . It is Windows only but runs fine in Wine. Since TFA has no details, I can't say if Sumatra is also vulnerable, but for me it beats foxit.

"Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. It's small and starts up very fast. It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive." http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Even better (i.e. MUCH faster): Sumatra PDF http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

http://www.tinyapps.org/

If you're running Windows, I also like Sumatra PDF

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

(not sure if that's listed at the former or no, which is why I specifically mention it --- the balance of my preferred small programs are)

William

Sumatra PDF is a good lightweight (under 1mb) freeware PDF viewer for Windows.

It opens PDF files extremely quickly (usually in less than a second on my rather average computer, compared to an average of almost 10 secs with Adobe Reader) and doesn't try to takeover you computer and run your life etc. I've also yet to find a PDF which doesn't display correctly with it.

Website: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

However, the current implementation requires that I have a bloated reader that typically includes Additional Crap (tm) in the installation which installs by default (if even given the option).

Try another PDF viewer. KPDF and XPDF are both great for Linux/X users. For a barebones Windows viewer, try SumatraPDF.

If you're stuck with Adobe Acrobat for some reason, then you might try these instructions to make Acrobat run a lot faster.

XPDF - The De-facto best PDF viewing engine on Linux has recently been forked into the poppler projet : a project to separate core function into a library to make easier to create software using the XPDF engine, like KPDF (Nice poppler rendering engine, but unlike the original XPDF has a non ugly interface too).

Because of its portable and easily integrable characteristics, poppler will probably be at the origins of the first viable alternative to Acrobat Reder (slow) and GhostView for Windows (Ugly).
So controlling the "Programs using Poppler" section in the Poppler Wiki and looking for promising Windows application is a good starting point.
There's a poppler based win32 program called Sumatra PDF viewer. For now it's a very early unstable version (0.3), but one day, it may become the perfect alternative.

But it's Google|Apple, so it's OK. Everything's OK. These are not corporations, they're warm, fuzzy friends of ours. I'm having lunch with Sergei and Larry next week, and they promised to bring a box of chocolates. It's OK.

You're not dealing with an obsolete profession in this case - the profession will still be there, but the market will not be willing to pay for that work.