Adobe Acrobat Reader Alternative

[mercuryx013]

Are you using Acrobat Reader 7.0? 6 was painfully slow but 7 is much faster.

[mercuryx013]

Are you using Acrobat Reader 7.0? 6 was painfully slow but 7 is much faster.

[metallithrax]

rename the plugin folder of acrobar reader and it will load faster

[beardly]

Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 is really fast and takes no time to load.

[devyant]

Foxit PDF Reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

[B1gDaddy87]

I'm telling you there is an app which loads much faster, I just can't find it. I'm currently using version 7.0.3

[sjobbe]

I think Adobe's Reader i just sh*t. Adobe Acrobat Reader takes almost 100mb installed (v. 7) While Foxit Reader takes about 3mb. Much lighter faster and does the thing http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

[devyant]

sjobbe, no doubt, thats because you just use it for reading, so Foxit should do well for you. But there are people who do use the advanced features of the Acrobat reader, so you don't term it as sh*t just because you do not use the advanced features provided. For reading thou, Adobe Acrobat Reader is just plain bloated.

[B1gDaddy87]

Just one question though. If I switch to Foxit Reader, how do I make my PDF files open directly in IE with this app, you know some sites provide pages in PDF...

[devyant]

You can't. Thats the limitation with this program.

[B1gDaddy87]

Uhhhhh.But I need the one that can. And the one, that will load as fast as Foxit Reader does.

[devyant]

Well for that, then I would like to know too.

[Old Man Pickle]

Google for this: Adobe Reader SpeedUp

[AdamW]

  Ilya said:

I need an alternative programm to open PDF documents.

Try GSView: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/

[Post-It Note]

Adobe reader Speedup: http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php

Just remove the plugins that you would never need (it suggests some, I think). You can make it load in a few seconds. There's also a similar tool for photoshop, but you have to be careful not to remove plugins that you need.

[sanctified Veteran]

I have been trying foxit pdf and its very fast and small

[coyotewrw]

  Ilya said:

Uhhhhh.But I need the one that can. And the one, that will load as fast as Foxit Reader does.

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Foxit actually DOES have that feature. Unfortunately, I can't show you where cuz I uninstalled it. (Haven't found an alternative to Acrobat that renders graphics 100% of the time. :( ). However, there aren't many options to look thru in Foxit, so turning that feature on shouldn't be much of a problem.

Good hunting ::p

[B1gDaddy87]

Looked for that option, there is no such thing :(

[coyotewrw]

  Ilya said:

Looked for that option, there is no such thing :(

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Okay, I just re-downloaded Foxit. It's not obvious how to get it to work, which is kinda dumb on their part. Basically you need to set Foxit as your default PDF reader, via the Help menu. Here's a composite screenshot.

Hope that helps :)