The Maillard Reaction
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What's your favorite PDF reader?
I need one on the new DAW and Reader seems bloated and I'd like to avoid "air" in the install.
I'm thinking it's time for a change.
Suggestions?
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IK Obi
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/06/30 17:15:33
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/06/30 19:25:34
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Foxit reader is good for pdf and was all I used for a while. But since i went with Win8 I use the new reader app. It works well, now. At first it was too good. But they tweaked it and it's alright now. So that's my fav at the moment.
I turn all that update stuff off.
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IK Obi
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/06/30 20:13:37
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Sumatra is another great one.
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/01 03:22:24
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Foxit is my go-to, but I like Nitro for the ability to insert signatures into docs.
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/01 05:12:11
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☄ Helpfulby Mesh 2014/11/03 13:56:42
Grem
But since i went with Win8 I use the new reader app. It works well, now. At first it was too good. But they tweaked it and it's alright now.
Is it still full screen only? I hated it with a passion and installed Acrobat.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/01 07:26:18
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Are you guys saying that Win8 has a built in reader or that you are using the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader in Win 8?
Does Chrome have a built in reader? I thought Firefox used the Adobe plugin and I assumed Chrome did too.
Foxit looks interesting.
Thanks!
best regards,
mike
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/01 07:38:04
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/01 08:06:28
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Foxit is great, but don't let it update itself. I had an issue with that on an older computer that I'm guessing the Foxit developeer overlooked. When there is an update, I just download it and install it manually.
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IK Obi
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/02 17:09:33
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Chrome has its own built it. Not sure on Firefox though.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/02 17:28:10
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Thanks for elaborating Obi!
best regards,
mike
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IK Obi
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/02 18:46:14
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No problem, I used to use the others like Foxit and Sumatra, but after Chrome was released I never looked back.
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/04 09:31:40
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mike_mccue
Are you guys saying that Win8 has a built in reader or that you are using the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader in Win 8?
In my case both statements are true. There is a PDF viewer in Win 8, but its one of the Apps, rather than traditional windows program. That means it optimised for mobile devices, will only run in full screen mode and can only be closed or minimised by mouse swiping. I hated it, as a result I installed acrobat.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2013/07/04 09:52:17
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Hi Glyn,
Thank you for explaining.
best regards,
mike
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 18:40:52
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I'm reviving this thread to see if anyone has any newer opinions.
I never actually installed a pdf reader on my DAW... but I need to do it someday.
I'm running Win7 x64.
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 19:08:08
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 19:18:13
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Hi Mike,
I'm also running Win7 x64 and just run the free Adobe reader. I turn off all the update stuff and everything works fine. I really have no need to create or edit PDF's so the free reader with the find function meets all my needs.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Rick
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 20:05:11
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Hi Rick,
Thank you. The reason I am hesitant to install Adobe is that I have a lot of Adobe stuff on other machines and I dislike the fact that you get "AIR" installed as an add on... and it seems really hard to get rid of it.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 20:05:59
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Hi Geoff,
Envince looks interesting. I am looking for something really light weight with no hidden gotchas. I'll look at this further.
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 20:07:45
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I use foxit. It is very lightweight
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 20:30:35
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Hi Dub,
Thanks.
I tried foxit the last time I asked this question... I forget why I'm not using it on my DAW right now. I should look at it again.
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/02 22:16:17
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Like most freebies it occasionally bugs you to upgrade but is mostly unintrusive. Definitely has a fraction of the footprint of adobe reader. I can't for the life of me figure why a simple reader needs over 100mb
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/03 01:16:33
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I use PDF-XChange Viewer on my ultrabook. For some reason Adobe Reader was performing very sluggishly, especially when zooming in and out and scrolling in documents, but PDF-XChange Viewer performs very smoothly. As usual there's also a pro version which allows editing and comes with more support, etc.
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/03 13:33:26
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I use Sumatra on my DAW. Works fine. No Adobe bloat.
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Re: What's your favorite PDF reader?
2014/11/03 13:49:40
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☄ Helpfulby Mesh 2014/11/03 13:58:00
I use Adobe Acrobat Reader X whatever - BUT.
I install the Acrobat Reader X Multilanguage installer. why? Well Adobe in their infinite wisdom install Reader by default to the main C - Drive, no option to install anywhere else wasting valuable SSD hard drive space.
If you use the Acrobat X multi language installer it is the same reader BUT the installer gives you an option to install where you want, like your D drive, saving the 100+MB install and keeping your SSD drive free of clutter.
Just a tip. When I had a 120GB SSD C Drive I was always running out of space, now I have a 500+GB SSD C Drive and I worry less but it's still a concern for me.
Just thought I would throw that out there.
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