Replace Adobe Reader
When I get home, I will be installing Foxit Reader, a replacement for Adobe’s terrifyingly bad PDF reader called… Reader. A quick description of the replacement:
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
Here’s the thing, that feature set listed above actually makes Foxit Reader superior to Adobe’s own offerings. I mean… it’s like someone other than Microsoft offering an alternative to Windows that works better than Windows. And Mykala, you still don’t have to worry about all this because, well, Macs come with built in software that reads PDFs.
Comments
Dan McKeown
Wait, so if I were to download this program could I get rid of Adobe and still read/see everything that I previously needed Reader for? I guess my main question is: will I still need to keep Adobe around or I can get rid of the program if I get Foxit Reader?
Nils
I would love to get rid of Reader. I hate that piece of shit.
Sagert
Thank you. This is especially useful considering that my company is on the verge of bankruptcy, meaning we have to download our resignation forms as PDF files from the company website.
Alexander Micek
Only one thing: the free version of Foxit Reader doesn’t support the “filling out” of PDF forms; you know, where you can check boxes and type things in address/name/etc. fields. But, since you all you could do in Adobe Reader was fill in a PDF form, (and not save what you typed) I don’t think it’s much of a loss. In the past 7 years I’ve used Reader, I’ve only used that “fill in” feature a handful of times.
Also, Sagert, I’m sorry to hear about this — where will you work now? What’s the plan?