Free Foxit PDF Reader- Fast and quick loading very small in size

aj2001

Hi as the title says
read on here about this free software
Download link is here 1.5mb

Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 1.5 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader 2.0 supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.6.

alchemista

I use this already, recommend it! Adobe is so annoying when it takes 10 seconds to open something.

Lord_Jason_The_Invincible

Have you tried the latest version of adobe acrobat (v7 upwards)? It has a small tsr module (or service - I never bothered to look into it...)

Anyway - that starts up when you log on to windows so it only takes a few seconds to open a pdf document now...

:beer: Jason

Diminutive

Adobe acrobat is bloatware, pure and simple! I wouldn't want it running constantly in the background! I can guareentee that 90% of my computer crashes pre getting foxit were from trying to open PDF files ! Highly recommend foxit!

robin58

This is a good program!!!

Using an old 4gb drive on another emergancy computer at present due to a computer failure on the newer unit.

Adobe was to big a program to load on this drive, with everything on there I needed.

This program is great for it's small size.

All I want to do is to read a pdf file. this does the job!

I do agree Adobe is bloatware.

Robin

Lord_Jason_The_Invincible

Diminutive wrote:

Adobe acrobat is bloatware, pure and simple! I wouldn't want it running constantly in the background! I can guareentee that 90% of my computer crashes pre getting foxit were from trying to open PDF files ! Highly recommend foxit!

Sorry - but I don't entirely agree... yes, adobe is a large program but if your computer is crashing so often reading a pdf file - then there is something wrong with your setup/software generally. You'd be surprised how many people get strange results with adobe because of display driver problems (rendering probs) or even the browser you are using - adobe acrobat integrates with the main web browsers such as firefox/netscape oh and internet explorer (bleurgh!)

I do however quite like foxit - though I don't use it because I like the web integration and the ability to view 3d adobe models... but if you really want to save disk space and you have a fast internet connection - you can use an online reader such as this one http://view.samurajdata.se/

But to be honest - hard disks are so cheap nowadays - whats the point?

:beer: Jason