Muzman on 27/6/2014 at 04:37
I need a new one. Foxit was working well for a couple of years. Now it seems to be bloated, intrusive crashy crap and getting worse with every update.
I could actually install the licensed version of Acrobat but I don't want to because it is a nightmarish behemoth.
Anyone know any good ones?
cheers
DiMarzio on 27/6/2014 at 16:22
What is wrong with Adobe Reader? Sincerely, I'd really like to know. I'm not here to be a smart-ass.
Zerker on 27/6/2014 at 20:47
Evince if you're running Linux.
You could also use the built-in Firefox viewer for some things.
zombe on 27/6/2014 at 22:18
Quote Posted by DiMarzio
What is wrong with Adobe Reader? Sincerely, I'd really like to know. I'm not here to be a smart-ass.
I can't speak for others, but for me:
Adoble = guaranteed to be a horrific bloatware of absolute incompetence all around. No exceptions thus far.
... i really wish there would be a alternative-flash.
Muzman on 29/6/2014 at 07:45
Quote Posted by DiMarzio
What is wrong with Adobe Reader? Sincerely, I'd really like to know. I'm not here to be a smart-ass.
It's been a while since I used it admittedly, but it used to be a fairly slimline thing of about 8megs or there abouts and could be run quickly and easily.
Now it's, what? 100megs? Yeah todays computers can handle it a bit better, but I couldn't read stuff and surf the net very well at the same time it was so weighty, or read more than one pdf at a time. It just kept getting bigger and bigger. The simple reading of a file turned into an ordeal of waiting for it to load, having to update it five times a week. It was beyond a joke.
So I switched to Foxit. But now that seems to be going the same way. It's possibly inherent to the PDF format. I don't know.
Anyway, will try suggestions. cheers.
Bjossi on 29/6/2014 at 15:54
Foxit Reader 4 is working good for me still despite its old age, lightweight, interface is accessible, it supports zoom and colour changes, and it seems to open whatever pdf I throw at it. It won't support any format changes and may have some security issues but if this is what I need to do to get an accessible pdf reader that is lightweight at the same time then so be it, certainly not going to waste my time on the newer and needlessly bloated Foxit Readers, after the GUI change in version 5 I could physically no longer use it because I can't see shit on its interface and Windows' high contrast themes break it (yellow text on white background ftw?).
