Adobe fix available

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Smirnoff, Alan:

I have been holding off on upgrading Acrobat Reader. If you've had
experience with v.8, does it resolve the issues recently reported about
v.7? Many thanks.
 
Ted Zieglar said:
Smirnoff, Alan:

I have been holding off on upgrading Acrobat Reader. If you've had
experience with v.8, does it resolve the issues recently reported about
v.7? Many thanks.
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We have switched from Acrobat to Foxit
(http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php ) . Foxit loads pdfs much
faster than Acrobat and it never locks up our computers as Acrobat used to
do. It is Free and works like a charm, Highly recommended! I have no
connection - just heard about it on another forum.

Graham
 
Foxit is great. It takes some getting used to as there is no text for the
buttons when you hover the pointer over them, but outside of that, I think
it beats Adobe hands down. Not to mention Foxit is less than 3MB and Adobe
Reader is over 20MB.
 
....and Foxit doesn't have to be installed. It's simply an executable.

Tom

| Foxit is great. It takes some getting used to as there is no text for the
| buttons when you hover the pointer over them, but outside of that, I think
| it beats Adobe hands down. Not to mention Foxit is less than 3MB and Adobe
| Reader is over 20MB.
| --
| Bruce Hagen
| MS-MVP Outlook Express
| ~IB-CA~
|
| | >
| > | >> Smirnoff, Alan:
| >>
| >> I have been holding off on upgrading Acrobat Reader. If you've had
| >> experience with v.8, does it resolve the issues recently reported about
| >> v.7? Many thanks.
| >>
| >
| > We have switched from Acrobat to Foxit
| > (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php ) . Foxit loads pdfs much
| > faster than Acrobat and it never locks up our computers as Acrobat used
to
| > do. It is Free and works like a charm, Highly recommended! I have no
| > connection - just heard about it on another forum.
| >
| > Graham
| >
| >
|
 
Thanks to you all. Last time I tried FoxIt it didn't display some PDFs,
but I'll certainly try it again.
 
Ted:

I haven't had any issues displaying PDFs, but, you may open more than I do.

Tom

| Thanks to you all. Last time I tried FoxIt it didn't display some PDFs,
| but I'll certainly try it again.
|
| ---
| Ted Zieglar
| "Backup is a computer user's best friend."
|
| Tom Willett wrote:
| > ...and Foxit doesn't have to be installed. It's simply an executable.
| >
| > Tom
| >
| > | > | Foxit is great. It takes some getting used to as there is no text for
the
| > | buttons when you hover the pointer over them, but outside of that, I
think
| > | it beats Adobe hands down. Not to mention Foxit is less than 3MB and
Adobe
| > | Reader is over 20MB.
| > | --
| > | Bruce Hagen
| > | MS-MVP Outlook Express
| > | ~IB-CA~
| > |
| > | | > | >
| > | > | > | >> Smirnoff, Alan:
| > | >>
| > | >> I have been holding off on upgrading Acrobat Reader. If you've had
| > | >> experience with v.8, does it resolve the issues recently reported
about
| > | >> v.7? Many thanks.
| > | >>
| > | >
| > | > We have switched from Acrobat to Foxit
| > | > (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php ) . Foxit loads pdfs
much
| > | > faster than Acrobat and it never locks up our computers as Acrobat
used
| > to
| > | > do. It is Free and works like a charm, Highly recommended! I have no
| > | > connection - just heard about it on another forum.
| > | >
| > | > Graham
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| >
| >
 
I have used foxit and I can confirm that it has many problems...
one of them that it cannot handle complex and very big pdfs very well.
I have 60.000 pdf files.. I should know.

Adobe acrobat reader 8 is 10 times faster than 7

its a big change.. in fact its like a whole new reader...

So once I tried it, I gave fox it its long deserved boot...
 
MicroFox said:
I have used foxit and I can confirm that it has many problems...
one of them that it cannot handle complex and very big pdfs very well.
I have 60.000 pdf files.. I should know.

Adobe acrobat reader 8 is 10 times faster than 7

its a big change.. in fact its like a whole new reader...

So once I tried it, I gave fox it its long deserved boot...
Click to expand...

I have never heard anyone complain about Foxit before.

Perhaps it was just with very large files? Or perhaps it was an earlier
version?

The current v2.0 works very well for me and I often open pdfs of up to 100
pages.

All I know, is that many freeze-ups in windows could be traced to Acrobat.
It seems it does not close down properly after a pdf is closed - Accord32
was still running after the last pdf was closed and unless manually closed
(Ctrl-Alt-Del) , a second pdf could not be opened and the system froze.

On-line discussion of problem:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...706bd,10&seekm=O4iNpw7BBHA.1736@tkmsftngp07#p

Maybe this has been fixed in the more recent versions of Acrobat? Has the
excessive load time been adressed?

For me, Foxit has solved all pdf problems and I no longer balk at opening a
pdf.

Graham
 
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