adobe reader.

[Guest]

i went to download adobe reader and i keep getting a error message 1155
something to do with not able to find file or make a file .

 

[Harry Ohrn]

i went to download adobe reader and i keep getting a error message 1155
something to do with not able to find file or make a file .

Give Foxit Reader a try http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ . Nothing to install
and once you open one .pdf file with it I'm sure you'll enjoy it much better
than Adboe Reader

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Harry

I second your recommendation but I am not sure about your comment
"Nothing to install"! Foxit Reader.exe is 2,616 kb on my system and
there are other lesser associated files.

My standard blurb is

An alternative to Adobe is Foxit.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Far less hassle than Adobe!

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Regards.

Gerry
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Stourport, England

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[Gerry Cornell]

See here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/salesdocs/1008538.html

However, you might end up happier going with Harry's recommendation.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

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[Stan Brown]

Give Foxit Reader a try http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ . Nothing to install
and once you open one .pdf file with it I'm sure you'll enjoy it much better
than Adboe Reader

I disagree, strongly.

Merely installing Foxit hijacks some file associations, without
warning. And there's no uninstall procedure.

Let me repeat that: there's no uninstall procedure.

That wouldn't matter quite so much if Foxit could actually replace
Acrobat Reader, but it can't. For instance, it doesn't work with my
CDs of New Yorker cartoons.

 

[Stan Brown]

Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:21:28 -0500 from Stan Brown

Merely installing Foxit hijacks some file associations, without
warning. And there's no uninstall procedure.

Sorry -- I should have said, "merely trying" rather than "merely
installing". But the "hijacking" business is correct, and annoying,
and the program offers no way to undo the damage it did.

Obviously I remember that it hijacked the PDF type association. There
were other registry changes, too, but I can't remember four or five
months later what they were. I did find complaints about this on
Foxit's forum, but apparently the author didn't see anything wrong
with this behavior.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Stan,

Foxit Reader "hijacks" the .pdf file association for a reason. Most folks
that use Foxit Reader have already dumped AdobeReader.

Reinstalling the bloated pig known as AdobeReader will "hijack" the .pdf
file associations back.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf
FoxitReader.Document

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{14E8BBD8-1D1C-4D56-A4DA-D20B75EB814E}\ProgID
FoxitReader.Document

{14E8BBD8-1D1C-4D56-A4DA-D20B75EB814E} is the CLSID for FoxitReader.Document

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoxitReader.Document

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExt
s\.pdf

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Foxit Software

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.pdf
FoxitReader.Document

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{14E8BBD8-1D1C-4D56-A4DA-D20B75EB8
14E}\ProgID

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\FoxitReader.Document

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Stan,

Some of the older beta versions did not have an install, and uninstall
process. The versions available now do.

This is the latest version.

Eventually we will merge Foxit Reader Pro with Foxit Reader standard
version, so, we recommend everyone to try the new Pro version (including
everything in Foxit Reader, and more. Most features are accessible
freely). It can be downloaded as an installer
(http://www.foxitsoftware.com/foxitre...reader_pro.exe, 3.5MB).

 

[Stan Brown]

Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:56:18 -0700 from Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955
@comcast.net>:

Foxit Reader "hijacks" the .pdf file association for a reason. Most folks
that use Foxit Reader have already dumped AdobeReader.

I question that, but whether it's true or not you have to agree that
not everyone who tries it has definitely decided not to use Acrobat.

Any program should ask before changing associations from another
existing program to point to itself. If there weren't already a
program on the system to handle PDF, there wouldn't be an issue; but
when there is, I don't think "hijack" is too strong a word.

 

[Stan Brown]

Some of the older beta versions did not have an install, and uninstall
process. The versions available now do.

Thanks for the info, Bert.

 

[Bert Kinney]

No problem Stan.