foxit reader 2.0 beta is out....

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Franklin said:
I truly love the notion of Foxit: a decent and wholly free PDF
reader which breaks Adobe's stanglehold. But I found it very
annoying that Foxit had associated all PDFs with itself and did so in
a way that made it hard for me to get Adobe reader to associate any
PDF.

When I needed some high-resolution rendering I had to use Adobe
Reader as Foxit was not quite as good. However I had a lot of
trouble customizing the registry to get Adobe back into a PDF's
context menu.
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Did you try right-clicking on the PDF, then selecting Open With.
Believe it or not, in the end I uninstalled Foxit which is a great
application but which I found was uncontrollable. Foxit had set
something up to reverse my manual Adobe associations.

When I uninstalled Foxit it tore out all the PDF associations and
left no PDF file extenson defined at all. I wonder if this was just
my system (which has been customized to hell and back) or if it is
Foxit.
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Right-click on any PDF, select Open With, ensure that there is check mark
next to "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"
I wonder, does Foxit v2 give you an installation option to
associate/unassociate .pdfs? Or maybe a Preferences option?
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Not needed, see above.
 
In_Parentheses said:
Hi Graig!

Hmm, didn't notice the name resemblance; but I can assure you that I am
not him ;-)
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You're much too civil to be him. <g>

Btw, this Jai/Jay guy has had faqs dedicated to him that go back as far
as '95. Kinda like an aafus on steriods.

-Craig
 
well it never happened in 1.5 for me and I "trained away" for months... lol


PDFrank said:
younggod said:
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If you TRAIN Foxit Reader properly, it will not display an ad.
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Care to elaborate, PDFrank?
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Keep UNchecking "Advertisement" on the "View" menu and eventually it will
make a notation in the registry. You should not see the advertisement
after that -- unless you revive it.
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You're much too civil to be him. <g>
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Thank you!
Btw, this Jai/Jay guy has had faqs dedicated to him that go back as far
as '95. Kinda like an aafus on steriods.
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Ah, aafuss I think of as our local jester; this guy I see as the local
madman.
 
http://www.foxitsoftware.com

Note: this is not pure freeware (nor was version 1.5). It contains a small
banner. It is thus adware and the freewarecops of this newsgroup should not
use it. They should stick with linux that is GNU.
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One of my favorite programs... the little banner has never been noticeable.
What bothers me more is the size increased almost a megabyte from 2.4xx to
3.3xx MB.

The good news is, it's still no install, 1 file, and FAST!
 
Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims:

http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate

Islam can count among its members 98% of all known terrorists in the world.
No other religion has any measurable number of terrorists, compared to the
Peaceful Religion of Islam.

The Koran is Pure, 100% Bullshit. Only a complete imbecile could possibly
believe any of that crap.

If all Muslims died tomorrow, the world would be terror free. Not a bad
idea, in my opinion. So, if Islam is really a peaceful religion, all
Muslims should kill themselves immediately, so the rest of the world can
have some peace.

No, well, I guess we will just have to take care of matters ourselves.

Camelback Mountain, the story of Mohammed and his first Male Camel (Named
Zarqawi), coming to a Islamic nation near you.



www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) posted:
Another sympathizer of Muslim terrorists reveals himself:

Craig Olofson
(e-mail address removed)
Mason Enterprises
P. O. Box 2386
Los Gatos, CA 95031-2386
USA

408-838-4181

Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims:

http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate


. . .
There's much more to our dear "Dr." than simply sponsoring religious
intolerance and hatred. He sows them (viz. soc.indian.culture and his
eponymous ng: alt.fan.jai-maharaj).
. . .
Om Shanti from your neighborhood "net terrorist,"

-Craig

==============http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/===============

(at top of page) This Satyamevajayate site is sponsored by Jai Maharaj

(Title) Satyameva Jayate
(Translation)(Truth Alone Triumphs)

<big snippage>

Islam imposes a threat to the whole world which is far worse than
deforestation, nuclear destruction or AIDS. It is an insidious, devilish
disease creeping into the veins of the world. Every individual must
realise the destructive and evil nature of this religion, for it eats
away at the very foundation of humanity which is an individual's ability
to think individually and act accordingly. The following articles
logically analyse different aspects of this so called religion and bring
forth the true nature of Islam.

<yet more snippage>

(author's note at bottom) I, <removed> grant the visitor of this web
site the right to freely distribute the above mentioned articles written
by me if he/she should so desire. They may do so provided that they do
not alter the original contents of these articles.
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[alt.comp.freeware removed from follow-ups.]
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In_Parentheses said:
Ah, aafuss I think of as our local jester; this guy I see as the local
madman.
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I stand corrected. Aafuss is fun. <g> "Doc" is just another race-
baiting p.o.s.

regards,
-Craig
 
I stand corrected. Aafuss is fun. <g> "Doc" is just another race-
baiting p.o.s.

regards,
-Craig
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Glad we agree. Quite interesting stuff you find when you 'google' on his
name without that "Dr." in front of it. Ity seems that the 'poor' doctor
has a stuck caps-lock while he is in the subject line... traces of that
can be found all over Usenet.

By the way: You should be pleased that he pays so much attention to you;
you really must have "hit him hard" with your post; according to the
stuff I have read so far he does so only when someone really gets in his
way! But be prepared for more insulting and even worse posts, that seems
to be the usual 'next line of defense' of our local madman (IMO he
should be put in an asylum, the key being thrown away after locking the
door behind him!). But I think we should stop paying attention to this
troll, he will die a natural Usenet death then ;-)
 
Did you try right-clicking on the PDF, then selecting Open With.
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Right-click on any PDF, select Open With, ensure that there is
check mark next to "Always use the selected program to open this
kind of file"
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I tried that and other more detailed approaches including direct
registry changes.

Foxit seems to change the actual association type which is not so
incredibly unusual, so other apps were not defined and then somehow
Foxit resets things to how it wants (in case PDFs are linked to any
other app) when it runs or via some other process. I didn't realize how
often Foxit was changing this back until too late so I didn't track the
frequency carefully.
 
In_Parentheses said:
Glad we agree. Quite interesting stuff you find when you 'google' on his
name without that "Dr." in front of it...
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A busy boy...or boys. One theory kicking around is this schmuck is
actually a whole passle o' schmuck.
By the way: You should be pleased that he pays so much attention to you
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Trust me, it's like being interviewed by someone w/halitosis. /Not/ to
be recommended.
But I think we should stop paying attention to this
troll, he will die a natural Usenet death then ;-)
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Thanks for that, Parentheses. I've been thinking about that and that'd
be standard procedure for a vanilla troll but what I keep coming back to
is that Dr Putz is a hate monger. He's out there inciting violence
based on race & religion. And anyone who crosses him is accused of a
lot of stuff.

He's accused one recipient of being a child molester and proceded to
post contact info based on *variations* of this guy's name. For the
vast majority of rants on-line, it's live and let live but our dear
"Dr..." <shrug>

Again, I do appreciate your advice. If I have any common sense, I'll
prolly follow it. <g>

-Craig
 
John said:
until you download a version and then you have to do it all again once more!
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No you won't, because it uses the same Registry keys as the previous
version.
 
I will try this with 2.0 and I am sure it will work.

1.5 had a strange problem on my pc, whenever I tried to fix the toolbars,
the next time they where out of place again. Perhaps it is because I always
used this program on drive F instread of C, and there was a bug in the
program. Whatever I did, it could not retain any settings.
 
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