Sub for Adobe for reading PDFs?

[Bruce Hagen]

File
Preferences
General
Application Startup
Show Advertisement (unchecked)

No Ads

Edit, not File on mine, but it worked. Also unchecked to show the Startup
page.

 

[Paul]

My main reason fro getting rid of Adobe years ago was that even though
you shouldn't have had to, updates would not install unless you removed
the current version first. I don't know about Ghostscript.

I have two versions pf GS here, and each got its own folder.
I use the latest version in GIMP, to handle .ps or .pdf.

http://i59.tinypic.com/v434ev.gif

Paul

 

[GS]

BillW50 brought next idea :

23MB is too big?

Compared to Sumatra's 4.84mb, yes! That's way too much *bloat* for my

Opens up in 3 seconds on this 8 year old machine.
That's too long for you?

Given that I usually use 'Open with...' when viewing PDFs, it takes
considerably longer to display the document. Not saying it's a bad
thing, mind you, just saying it's not my preference. I have over a
dozen different PDF viewers that I use for testing my e-publications.

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/foxit_reader_portable

I'll look into that!

I justy checked to see what version of Sumatra I have as my default
viewer and it appears to be the portable version as Sumatra is not
'installed' on this (10 year old) machine!

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[GS]

Just checked the newer Win7 machine I have the Sumatra installed
version on. It's exe is 2.17mb, but it uses 4 DLLs! Obviously, these
are packaged inside the portable version so it's a stand-alone exe!

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[darkrats]

I still use Foxit Reader 2.3.
Very small install (8MB) and very quick. Never failed to open a PDF yet.
Later versions of Foxit are bloatware.
Search the Old Apps site for the earlier version.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

What version of Foxit are you two running? I have ran Foxit for many
years and I never saw an ad. Is this something new in newer versions?

Do you see anything in the middle of the window if you open Foxit on its
own, rather than to view a document? (Can't think why one would do so,
mind.) (Except - as I just did - to check version [5.4.3.0920]. And I
got nothing in the window, though I think I have in previous versions.)

Also, in the top right corner, there are sometimes very discreet -
strongly coloured, such as green or orange or purple, IIRR - little ad.s
for other Foxit products (usually the .pdf editor). I normally don't
notice those.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

any reader is better than Adobe.

I take such statements with a large grain of salt. They reek of bias
with no evidence. When I selected PDF-XChange in my prior trials of PDF[/QUOTE]
[]
A little arrogant, surely!

I switched to Foxit (the only alternative I knew of at the time) some
years ago, because I'd seen it mentioned somewhere, tried it, and found
it - at that time - smaller, less aggressive, and faster than Adobe
Acrobat. If you want to call that biased, feel free.

More recent versions of Foxit have indeed grown such that it's huge
compared to what it once was: old versions (older than the above) still
work fine (and fast!) on most documents. (I think even modern versions
of Foxit aren't as big as modern versions of AA, mind.)

I haven't tried PDF-XChange (in fact I'd not heard of it until this
thread). It may well be better than Foxit, but since Foxit works well
enough for me (less than 2 seconds to open on this single-core, 1.6GHz,
XP machine), I'm probably not going to change - I find that applying
more and more as I get older (i. e. time expended in trying something
having to be weighed against any potential savings/improvements, and
often losing).