Posted on 03/10/2008 8:02:02 AM PDT by Delacon
Someone once suggested to me that when talking to someone from Adobe, pronounce the name “adoBEY”. It irks them no end.
If I uninstall reader, will those two go as well, if I decide to try foxit .. or can I pick and choose?
I rarely have a pdf to open, so it is only occasionally even used ... perhaps I should do away with Adobe altogether?
All I do is read FR, play solitaire and surf the occasional .... never mind.
Oh yeah, my OS is W98
Ooops. It says “for personal use only” so, like with most proprietary software that offers a free version for personal use, you may have to pay for it if you’ll being using it for business purposes.
>>I just looked into my add/remove programs and saw I have also Adobe’s flash player activeX and shockwave,
If I uninstall reader, will those two go as well, if I decide to try foxit .. or can I pick and choose?
I rarely have a pdf to open, so it is only occasionally even used ... perhaps I should do away with Adobe altogether?
All I do is read FR, play solitaire and surf the occasional .... never mind.
Oh yeah, my OS is W98<<
Flash and Shockwave are separate programs that would not be effected by installing Foxit or uninstalling Adobe Reader...
However, I have not used Foxit with Win98. If it were me I’d look at the web site and see if Foxit is approved for Win98 before I installed..but then I am cautious.
I heard good things about Sumatra. I picked foxit because download.com had good things to say about it. Download.com has nothing to say about Sumatra, not even user reviews. I trust them. They catch a lot of bad things before I download something. And Foxit had a few more features than Sumatra. Also Sumatra is open source and Foxit isn’t. Open source programs make me nervous. Foxit’s site seemed to me to be more professional.
Then you'd better stop posting here, as that is what FR runs on. Also, stop going on the Net since most routers run on FLOSS. Most websites also run on Apache, another FLOSS program.
Better check with Netcraft to see what a particular web site is running before you click on any link.
Foxit PDF Reader is an alternative to Adobe Reader, that allows you to view and print PDF files. Unlike Adobe Reader, it opens PDF files very fast, without any delay. It supports all the standard features, as well as browser integration, and also an option select/copy of text from the documents. Furthermore, you can create a snapshot from a selected portion of the page, fill interactive forms and more.
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I hate to be a spoiler here, but I have no problems with Adobe Reader. Of course, I just bought my computer last year (iMac with 2.4 GHz 2 GB SDRAM). It’s a dual processor machine so maybe Adobe only works well with dual processors.
Not that you’d want to change now, but the problem you described sounded like a problem caused by the Adobe auto updater. If you turned the auto update feature off I suspect the performance would improve dramatically.
LOL. I knew I was going to catch flack for that statement. From a Linux guy of course. I didn’t say I won’t have anything to do with open source software. Just that it makes me nervous. I do download open source software from time to time. I approach things with caution. Its one thing to go to a website and another to download an executable file(that can mess with your registry for one) from a source you are unfamiliar with. Have good anti virus, malware, and firewall software. But thanks for the concern.
Try upgrading your Acrobat reader.
If you hover your cursor over a link, the status bar of your browser should display the link, complete with extension so you can see if it’s a PDF.
“Not that you’d want to change now, but the problem you described sounded like a problem caused by the Adobe auto updater. If you turned the auto update feature off I suspect the performance would improve dramatically.”
Nope. Did that. I keep running processes down to a minimum as a matter of course and updaters are the just about the first thing I disable. I think its more likely that its a Mac versus PC thing.
I can agree wholeheartedly with that--but that caution also applies to closed-source software. Especially so, since you cannot (if you so happen to want to) examine the code to be sure of what it is doing.
Using that caution, though, to paint such a broad stripe on FLOSS, is erroneous. That is what brought my criticism, not necessarily the avoidance of FLOSS.
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Firefox also has an Ad-blocker extension that makes surfing much faster.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
I also use ‘Foxit’, and it is FAAAAAR better than Adobe Acrobat. Foxit very fast, files open almost instantly, only takes a few seconds to install and doesn’t setup a bunch of unnecessary services that run on startup that you have installed with Adobe Acrobat which easily slows down marginally performing computers. I believe that Foxit also has a “professional” version that allows one to edit and save PDF files, and it’s much less expensive than Adobe’s PDF Writer application.
I hate it when you have what used to be good, well designed, simple running applications that over time devolve into bloatware. Norton Antivirus is probably among the worst in this regard..
On an unrelated note, I’m a little worried now that Adobe has apparently taken over Flash player. Flash player used to install quickly and function well on most systems. Now that Adobe has it, I wonder how long it will take before Flash player will require nearly 10 minutes to install, slow down older computers, and cause .SWF files/web pages to take an eternity to open.
While this may be true, I've found that the adobe "autoupdater" has a way of just randomly turning itself back on. lol
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