Ditch Acrobat, Fox it instead

Post by **bigC** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:11 pm

Foxit PDF Reader

Small, Fast, Clean, and FREE PDF reader for everyday use.

Finally, I have found it! A replacement for the bloated, slow, messy Acrobat Reader. Why Adobe needs 20 megs to do what requires less then 1MB, I have no clue.

If you don't like Acrobat, you should definitely check out Foxit,

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

It works great in Avant and it contains no spy ware, ad ware or other nasty things.

Post by **Moby** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:28 pm

Hey, that is fast. Thanks BigC

Post by **André** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:08 pm

Nice find. It works well too. I have Adobe Reader. Too slow.

Post by **Pip** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:14 pm

What does it look like if you try to zoom the text. When I tried to do that, it was really screwed up........can't explain what it looked like except that it looked kinda like the Avant title page superimposed over parts of the text I was trying to zoom.

So I haven't been using it.............I'm using Acrobat 7

Post by **bigC** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:05 pm

It zooms fine for me Pip. Can you post a screenshot?

Post by **SweetLou** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:45 am

Pip wrote:What does it look like if you try to zoom the text. When I tried to do that, it was really screwed up........can't explain what it looked like except that it looked kinda like the Avant title page superimposed over parts of the text I was trying to zoom.

That's why we have what is called "screenshots".

Post by **Pip** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:31 am

This is what I see when I zoom....

Post by **roba5263** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:31 pm

I've been using it for awhile now, nice little program. Its Acrobat without the bloat.

Post by **bigC** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:18 pm

I don't know Pip, it doesn't do that here. Maybe its just that particular document, did you try a diff. file?

Maybe they can help here,
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=3

Edit: Looks like you're not the only one, I just found this,
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=54

Maybe you should try updating your graphics driver. I think they mention that...

Post by **Coolnat2004** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:00 am

Macs have the lightweight Preview.app to open PDF files, among many other files.

Post by **SweetLou** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:01 am

Linux has xpdf, but that is not what we are talking about here.

Post by **Pip** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:18 am

I gave up on it.........searched for later drivers for my graphics card and had the latest (I guess). Since I don't use pdf all that much, it just wasn't worth the effort. I have Adobe Reader 7.0 and it opens pretty quickly.

Post by **SweetLou** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:20 am

I like it. I always thought that Reader was way too big for me. I have been looking for a good small pdf reader for a long time.

Post by **Sara** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:16 am

Same here--I haven't uninstalled Adobe yet, but I well may.

Sara

Post by **Sergei** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:12 am

Acrobat Reader is is ridiculously big, but I find that since 7 it's been pretty fast.

Post by **hornakapopolis** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:55 am

Sara wrote:Same here--I haven't uninstalled Adobe yet, but I well may.

Sara

I'm glad this post came up while I was restoring my system. I haven't even bothered to put Reader back on.

Post by **RocknRoland** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:36 pm

I have been using Foxit for awhile now, I will not go back to Adobe and it's bloatware what so ever. Foxit is a great and small program, I have been mentioning it in other forums.

Post by **Pip** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:27 am

I tried it several times........installed, uninstalled, installed and so on and I can't get it to work for me.

Post by **Sara** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:37 am

I thought I'd posted this, but I had to go back to Adobe--when I printed out mailing labels Foxit left off the bar codes.

Sara

Post by **browserod** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:43 pm

I use GSview in Firefox to open up pdf's but thought I'd try Foxit but I can't figure out how to make Foxit the default pdf reader in Avant.

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Ditch Acrobat, Fox it instead

Ditch Acrobat, Fox it instead

how do I get Foxit to open up instead of acrobat?