Open PDF files at blazing speeds.
Tired of waiting around for Adobe Acrobat to open up? Acrobat 7.0 is a definite improvement over the half-baked 6.0 that was released in a rush, but Acrobat is still a pain when you have 15 other windows open.
I recently discovered the Foxit PDF Reader (download.com) from Foxit Software (site doesn’t always work so try the download.com link).
It’s simple but super fast, and does its job with minimum fuss. It won’t open inside browsers as far I have tried, but I don’t like that anyhow. I have set up my browsers to download all *.pdf extentions anyway.
If you need multilingual support (Japanese, Chinese, etc) then you need to download an additionlal *.bin file here. An occasional font here and there may look somewhat less pretty in Foxit, but that’s a minor price to pay for sheer speed of opening PDF files.
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so does adobe acrobat reader when you take all the unneeded plugins out of the /plugins directory.
My Acrobat 7.0 has a “plug_ins” folder with 130 files and folders, and 6 of them in “plug_ins3d” folder. The “Reader” folder has 20-odd plugins. Which should be removed? How is a regular pc user to know? Where’s the application that allows me to customize this in an educated fashion? Until that’s handily available people will continue to seek options like Foxit.
Use Google to find program “Adobe Reader SpeedUp”, it has a option to select and securely disable/reenable Reader plugins.
Speeds up starup of AR up to 2 secs!
Martin
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