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| Thread ID: 107430 | 2010-02-15 20:26:00 | PDF Readers | linw (53) | Press F1 |
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| 858790 | 2010-02-15 23:12:00 | Had another look at the update screen and confess it isn't that easy to install everything! Darned if I know how he did it. And, yes, I subsequently found the Preferences box to turn off update checking. So I am calming down and will continue with Foxit as it is a very good reader. Thanks for the replies. 99.9% of them are appreciated as always. |
linw (53) | ||
| 858791 | 2010-02-15 23:54:00 | Good to know it is sorted. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 858792 | 2010-02-16 00:28:00 | Ive done the same thing. Adobe reader 8 > foxit>sumatra when on XP. Cant stand waiting 9seconds just to open a pdf. | pkm (13527) | ||
| 858793 | 2010-02-16 03:40:00 | I think Google Docs can read/upload PDF's, and also save to down load other formats (word, excel) as PDF's. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 858794 | 2010-02-16 05:09:00 | Sumatra PDF (blog.kowalczyk.info) hands down for me. It's only 1.4 MB of portable, open source freeware and over the years it has opened every PDF I've thrown at it no problem. I was using Sumatra and still do on my portable apps, but had a problem couple of years ago where it wouldn't open PDF's from air NZ. It's probably been fixed by now but have got used to Foxit as it has the FF plugin |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 858795 | 2010-02-16 09:43:00 | I usually use Okular, and occasionally Xpdf. Both are Linux apps, although Okular should have a Windows port, as it's part of KDE 4. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 858796 | 2010-02-17 00:37:00 | I was using Sumatra and still do on my portable apps, but had a problem couple of years ago where it wouldn't open PDF's from air NZ. It's probably been fixed by now but have got used to Foxit as it has the FF pluginSumatra PDF 0.8 and lower used to use two different PDF rendering engines to work more reliably (you could change which one under "View") but it's now settled with MuPDF (ccxvii.net) I guess due to improved compatibility. When you had your problem, a rendering engine change could possibly have solved it. I also see that MuPDF has a nice and lite PDF add-on for Firefox (ccxvii.net) (800KB) but I prefer downloading a PDF rather than viewing it in a browser. I wonder if the Adobe Reader install has hit half a GB yet. |
sal (67) | ||
| 858797 | 2010-02-17 06:17:00 | +1 for Okular. You need to download the KDE installer from windows.kde.org and then you can select which KDE packages to install. It will either just be called okular or could be under kdegraphics. Evince is less featured but also has a Windows download at live.gnome.org I've only used both apps on Linux though so don't know what they're like on Windows. |
ad_267 (6193) | ||
| 858798 | 2010-02-17 06:23:00 | I've been a Foxit user for quite a while, but a couple of pdfs wouldn't open the other day (can't remember the error message), so tried Cool PDF Reader. Seems okay so far. |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 858799 | 2010-02-18 12:35:00 | I've been a Foxit user for quite a while, but a couple of pdfs wouldn't open the other day (can't remember the error message), so tried Cool PDF Reader. Seems okay so far. I also had a few pdf's that caused Foxit to crash before Xmas. Forwarded them to my work email, 'cuz Adobe Reader is installed at work, and they opened fine. (And they were definitely clean pdf files, they were from my bank) I did log the crash with Foxit, they gave me a ticket number and did contact me to ask for clarification on something, but I never heard anything back after that about it. And it's not fixed now, three months later. So yes, Foxit is good, but still not great. |
Chikara (5139) | ||
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