Best PDF Reader for Windows

Big_Graeme

Terry98 wrote: »

A lot more links these days are PDF files which, I assume, can only be opened in a browser.

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You assume wrong. Download them or open them in something like FoxIT that won't run any scripting inside the files.

Terry98 wrote: »

A couple of times in the last two weeks I have had to open them in Chrome because Opera, my preferred browser, will not open the PDF's. I have tried to find out why Opera will not open them and it now appears you need a plugin which I am sure wasn't needed before the latest update.

Use a browser to browser the web, a PDF reader to read PDF's, the same as using a folk to spread butter, you can do it but I wouldn't advise it...

somersethillbilly

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Use a browser to browser the web, a PDF reader to read PDF's, the same as using a folk to spread butter, you can do it but I wouldn't advise it...

Neither would I, folk get awful weird when you smear them in butter

Big_Graeme

somersethillbilly wrote: »

Neither would I, folk get awful weird when you smear them in butter

damn auto correct...

esuhl

You could give evince a go:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/evince.mirror/
It's a document reader with PDF capabilities. It's what I use in Linux, but there's a Windows version too.

In Windows, Foxit Reader works fine for me (although I don't use the "view in browser" add-ons).

Terry98

esuhl wrote: »

In Windows, Foxit Reader works fine for me (although I don't use the "view in browser" add-ons).

Viewing PDF's in Opera is my problem.

The example I quoted above becomes, when opened

http://www.bathpanelstore.co.uk/ekmps/shops/bathpanelstore/resources/Other/fitting-instructions-for-solid-bath-panels.pdf

This is now a PDF document which I can now save to my HD if I want to but most of the time I don't want to save PDF's I have opened in a similar fashion.

The trouble is Opera 25 will not open it.....I just get a blank page! (I am sure I was able to open PDF's in previous versions).

Chrome opens it with Foxit no problem and with no browser add ons.

I have used Opera for years and like it. Maybe it's time to make Chrome my default browser!

spenderdave

Opera 25 IS Chrome. Many of us are still using the old Presto versions, 12.16 here, it of course works totally different.

Terry98

spenderdave wrote: »

Opera 25 IS Chrome..

I wondered why it had jumped from 12 to 25!

A quick goggle confirmed it's not exactly Chrome...'Opera shares a codebase with Chromium it doesn’t import all of its features ad-hoc.'

spenderdave wrote: »

Many of us are still using the old Presto versions, 12.16 here, it of course works totally different.

I have noticed quite a few problems since the update so I might go back to 12. Does that one have the mail client in it? What about security? I suppose they do not support 12.16 anymore.

Hey Presto...http://forums.opera.com/discussion/1853506/presto-upgrade-to-opera-25/p1

spenderdave

Yes v12 has the original mail client. There are no known security issues (they did produce a couple of security updates since they brought out the new version). A few compatibility issues are creeping in, for instance the latest Java update does not work. Technically unsupported but still far far more secure than many other browsers - and in any case Linux users are still on v12 as they have not yet released a Chromium version for that platform.