I got rid of the ugly beast

[El Greco]

Namely Adobe Crapobat. I now use Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php). Highly recommended.

[Smike]

Wow! That is good.

Thanks

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

I have only one question: Does it remember the position and size of its window from one invocation to the next?

~~ Paul

[RayG]

Will it open the pdf document in your browser when the pdf link is clicked online? If so, it sounds like the cat's meow.

RayG

[El Greco]

It remembers window position and size, but doesn't have browser integration. Which I used to disable even with Acrobat. But if you click on "Open this file" instead of "Save this file" when you click on a PDF link, it's not much different really.

[RayG]

It remembers window position and size, but doesn't have browser integration. Which I used to disable even with Acrobat. But if you click on "Open this file" instead of "Save this file" when you click on a PDF link, it's not much different really.

I'd prefer to just left-click on the pdf link and have it open automatically in my browser if possible.

I noticed the forum on their website, and going there saw many threads concerning bugs and program glitches. Have you found the program to be fairly stable?

RayG

[SFB]

I have found FoxIt to be very good at rapidly displaying and scrolling just about any .pdf. But for anything beyond display (browser integration, printing, e.g.) I have to resort to the cumbersome and lumbering Adobe. Jeez, just waiting for Adobe to load is frustrating.

[bignickel]

I thought this was going to be a divorce thread posted in the wrong forum.

[El Greco]

Have you found the program to be fairly stable

Yes. There was only one PDF it wouldn't display properly, but on the other hand it doesn't crash with another PDF that uses to crash Acrobat.

[Metullus]

Very cool, El Greco!

[Beanbag]

I've found several PDF files that display correctly in Adobe that won't work in Foxit. They just show up as blank pages with a line at the top. It's the correct number of pages, just no text or graphics.

It's a nice program. I like the size, and I'll probably install a copy in the rot of every CD-ROM archive I have of PDF reference materials I've made.

Beanbag

[Soapy Sam]

Any known viruses / malware associated with Foxit?

ETA- http://castlecops.com/postlite118799-foxit.html
It appears to be approved of on the Castlecops forum.

[El Greco]

I got rid of the ugly beast, part II.

This time it was iTunes and the Apple firmware. I now use Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/).

[moopet]

Sumatra ( http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ ) is also a good, quick, free PDF reader. Both of them don't always work perfectly, but - especially on older systems - they work about ten times faster than the Adobe stuff.

[Agular]

It remembers window position and size, but doesn't have browser integration. Which I used to disable even with Acrobat. But if you click on "Open this file" instead of "Save this file" when you click on a PDF link, it's not much different really.

Actually, it does have browser integration with Firefox. Go to Tools/Options/Content/Manage then add Foxit as shown.

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee105/Agularis/foxit.jpg

[Modified]

Adobe got on my bad side by adding "Smooth Text" in Acrobat 6 (or maybe it was there before, but starting with version 6 it is on by default). I spent a lot of time getting a font to do exactly what I want it to do, and they go and screw it up.

[Camwe_R.]

Thanx, I will try this. I truly hate Acrobat.

C.

[Smike]

Actually, it does have browser integration with Firefox. Go to Tools/Options/Content/Manage then add Foxit as shown.

This opens the file in foxit, but not inside firefox ( as acrobat would be, via the acrobat plugin). The foxit plugin only comes with the pro version, I think.

[Zax63]

I've used Foxit for a few months now at work. I find that maybe 1 in 20 times it will crash while opening a document. I just open it again and have never had a second failure on the same document.

[Agular]

This opens the file in foxit, but not inside firefox ( as acrobat would be, via the acrobat plugin). The foxit plugin only comes with the pro version, I think.

Is there a difference, or advantage, between opening within the browser and not, other than that Foxit is run separately? Foxit is so fast that it hardly seems to matter.

[Acleron]

Never had a problem with opening pdf files in Foxit but then I only open 10-20 a month. Otherwise it far faster than Adobe both in loading and operation.
The only problem I have seen is when selecting text formatted in columns it picks up the opposite lines in the other column. This could well have happened in Adobe as well but I'm not re-installing it to find out.

[bruto]

Is there a difference, or advantage, between opening within the browser and not, other than that Foxit is run separately? Foxit is so fast that it hardly seems to matter.Well, there may well be an advantage over the Adobe plugin, since Adobe is occasionally able to crash Firefox. :(

[moopet]

If anyone wants to see the disadvantages of foxit, try applying for anything with an editable pdf form rather than just reading documents. I like foxit and recommend it to people but have settled on Adobe Reader myself because I do a lot of this.

[Wowbagger]

That looks awesome for my travelin' computers!

For my desktop, though, I already got the entire Adobe Master Collection CS3 installed.
I might be slightly addicted to computing power.

[joyrex]

Namely Adobe Crapobat. Ah, I thought it would have been MS Windows ... but that's good too.

[Almo]

Adobe got on my bad side by adding "Smooth Text" in Acrobat 6 (or maybe it was there before, but starting with version 6 it is on by default). I spent a lot of time getting a font to do exactly what I want it to do, and they go and screw it up.

They pissed me off when they tried to make Yahoo Toolbar a REQUIRED install to update Acrobat reader. The update was in the left window, you hit the arrow to move it to the Install window, and boom! YT shows up with it, hoping you don't notice.