Looking for an alternative to Adobe Reader?

[Andrew110]

I was about ready to install Adobe Reader the other day when I realized the set up file is 21MB! Not wanting to install such a bulky app to view a few PDF's once in a while, I was determined to find another solution. A few clicks later, I stumbled upon the clever little program Foxit PDF Reader. One twentieth the size, I was eager to try it. After opening a few PDF's with it, I found it to be a very useful program. The start up time is lightening fast compared to Adobe and it doesn't use nearly the system resources. I thought I'd share this program with all of you here at ZP who are sick of dealing with bloated Adobe Reader.

Foxit PDF Reader (http://www.download.com/Foxit-PDF-Reader/3000-2079_4-10634896.html?tag=lst-0-1)

[linkodz]

Tks for the old news to me anyways........... I am sure others will like it.

[Spacefocus]

Thanks... just what I needed.

[mundix]

yep Foxit is a lot better.. it doesn't eat up your system resources

[SavantEdge]

Sumatra is another PDF reader, even lighter and more stripped down than Foxit. I don't think you can even C&P text with it, but its quite fast as a result, so if you know you just want to quickly read/look at a PDF, you can use it, and then switch to something else if you need to do something fancy.

I think it might even be open source.

[RexKrugger]

Foxit is nice, I hav been using it for quite some time. I like its small memory footprint.

But have you noticed, its image rendering is not as smooth a Adobe Readers ? Not only image, in case of fonts and text rendering, Adobe reader displays better than foxit .

SO I have both installed.