Thanks for elaborating Obi!
 
best regards,
mike

No problem, I used to use the others like Foxit and Sumatra, but after Chrome was released I never looked back.

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.

Hi Glyn,
Thank you for explaining.
 
best regards,
mike

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. 

Evince Document Viewer has a GNU license.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
 
 

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

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.

Hi Geoff,
 Envince looks interesting. I am looking for something really light weight with no hidden gotchas. I'll look at this further.
 

I use foxit.  It is very lightweight