BleepingComputer.com: Free Foxit pdf reader

I found this info. posted by jeffholman.

jeffholman, on Jun 20 2005, 07:26 PM, said:

@ jeffholman - LOL Mine too. I am quite interested in the free foxit pdf reader. Does it work on ME. I find one reference where it does and one where it does not.

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Has anyone else heard of this? I would be interested in any thoughts/opinions regarding this.

Thanks everyone.

This post has been edited by scarlett: 04 July 2005 - 01:18 PM

Free Foxit PDF


This thread has eiether been overlooked. Or maybe no one else has had any experience with Free Foxit pdf reader. I am very interested in this. If it would save on the limited memory that I have. It would be wonderful.

1 MB versus 22.9 MB

I do not use Adobe's Acrobat all that often.
When Gooling for infomation, and there is the "view in HTML" option available I use it.
Adobe takes eons to load. So it is a pain. Of course, there are cases when I have no choice but to use it.

I have the .zip file saved to my desktop. If I decide to install it. Should I uninstall Adobe first?


Any thoughts would be apprieciated. I have read some good reviews on this. But I would very much like some opinions from the members here.

Thanks, Scarlett

This post has been edited by Scarlett: 09 July 2005 - 08:05 AM

You shouldn't have to uninstall Adobe AR, Scarlett, if you want to try the alternative. I would be interested in your opinion, if you want to be our guinea-pig.
Cheers,
John

Well I had some time this morning, and downloaded and tried it on an ME version. While it is simpler than Adobe, Scarlett, I compared it with AAR using the same document ( A PEW report about 110 Kbs) and the text quality, etc. is just as good, and it opens faster. I didn't try printing, so cannot say how that works, nor did I see how well it opened documents direcly from the NET; using "find text" can be time-consuming, as you have to open the dialogue box each time and type in the word, whilst Adoble will give you a list of all occourances of the word or phrase.
Bottom line. If all you ever want is to be able to read a small PDF file, then this will do the job quite well, and save a LOT of hard drive space.
Regards,
John

This post has been edited by jgweed: 09 July 2005 - 07:49 PM

You are to funny, jg.
But what happens when I attempt to open a pdf doc.? Which would open it? Will I be given a choice? Like when I open pdf doc.'s from the web, Adobe automatically opens them.

This post has been edited by Scarlett: 09 July 2005 - 08:29 AM

You can make it the default, Scarlett. If you want to change back, you can do so but you have to use Adobe to change it back.
Cheers,
John