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Thread ID: 79812 2007-06-01 20:36:00 Dump Adobe PDF and get Foxit Reader Strommer (42) Press F1
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555234 2007-06-01 20:36:00 Free. Launches instantly. Annotation tool. Only 1.5 Mb compared to 20 Mb Adobe. Text converter. Get it here: www.foxitsoftware.com

BTW, I found this program in the YouTube video Free Education Online - OCW Open Consortium at www.youtube.com
Strommer (42)
555235 2007-06-01 22:17:00 Also have a look at www.visagesoft.com
This is the one I use.
wmoore (6009)
555236 2007-06-01 23:49:00 Foxit is great. It's been covered here before on lists of people's favourite freeware, but it's good to remind the newbies that there are decent alternatives to Adobe's cumbersome product. Greg (193)
555237 2007-06-02 08:28:00 Yup, been using Foxit on my oldish laptop and it is much faster know. beeswax34 (63)
555238 2007-06-02 09:07:00 I tried Foxit for a while, but gave up on it as you can't follow links which took me ages to figure out, besides Adobe runs a lot faster if you remove the excess plugins Morgenmuffel (187)
555239 2007-06-02 20:55:00 I tried Foxit for a while, but gave up on it as you can't follow links which took me ages to figure out, besides Adobe runs a lot faster if you remove the excess plugins

Installed Foxit yesterday and it runs faster than Adobe but have not tried links, URLs I guess you mean. How do you remove excess Adobe plugins, is this done only during installation or can it be done afterwards?
Morpheus1 (186)
555240 2007-06-03 02:45:00 There's a free programme which does it: Adobe Reader Speedup (www.google.co.nz/search? It's called [url=www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=adobe+reader+speed&meta=hl=en&q=adobe+reader+speed&meta=) Graham L (2)
555241 2007-06-03 02:55:00 There's a free programme which does it. Adobe Reader Speedup (www.google.co.nz/search? It's called [url=www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=adobe+reader+speedup&meta=) Graham L (2)
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