Foxit - The alternative to bloated Adobe Reader

Posted on March 31, 2007 at 3:37 pm

Make sure to read other posts from the PDF Reader/Viewers series!

Foxit - The alternative to bloated Adobe Reader
Free PDF viewer and reader that’s better than Foxit viewer
How to increase the launch speed of Adobe Acrobat Reader

I have to say that I am starting to hate Adobe reader with it’s constant need to install updates every two weeks!!! And the fact that it has so many features built into it that it just sits there and loads all of that crap on startup, which takes about a good 2 minutes!

Well forget it, there is now an alternative called Foxit 2.0, which is a free, lightweight PDF document viewer and printer. And the best part is it’s only 1.5MB!!! Great! I don’t know if you remember installing Adobe reader off their web site, but that thing had to “recompose” or “decompose” itself or something crazy for 15 mins before it even started the installation! 1.5MB is what I like to hear!

And version 2.0 is even better because it looks like Adobe Reader, so it takes care of the learning curve. It also has an interactive form filler, multi-language UI support, a self upgrade engine, improved printing speed, and a streamlined UI! And there is no annoying splash window either, it just LOADS!

There are some more features that allow you to do more advanced tasks, but it costs a little money. It unlocks functions to save annotation, save a PDF document as a text file, copy text from text viewer. Actually without Pro Pack, you are still able to annotate a PDF document and print it out. However when you save the annotated document, it will be stamped with an evaluation mark on the top-right corner of the annotated pages. If you purchase a Pro Pack add-on, then there will be no evaluation mark.

A GREAT alternative to Adobe Reader, so definitely check it out!

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