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Personally, I hate .pdf files mostly due to the Adobe insistance that its software for reading and producing them choke the living daylights out of any computer ever made. It seems that maybe there is a requirement at Adobe that their programmers must be able to produce the most resource hogging software available, maybe its a question on the programmer job application at Adobe ..."How much of a computers resources can you use for a single application?"

Anyway, I find .pdf files a stupid and non-intuitive resource hog that can't in reality be used eaisly at all.

All this caused me to search for a better way to read .pdf files, and I found FoxIt at:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

There is even an SDK available.

Acrobat reader takes 22 mbyte ram, and starts up in about 2 seconds cold, and under 1 afterwards.

@FSxOI

hehe. Your description of Adobe's PDF reader is pretty close to my thoughts on it.

Thanks for the link, will check it out.

Well boy, you should learn how acrobat format works in the first place. We are working with vectorial information.. lots of processing (maths) and rendering (graphics = what you see) over there.

I used to hate acrobat reader but its ok now, it became a little faster on the last builds. And as for memory usage, I don't really care, since I dont have it opened 24/7 .. Just a few minutes, half an hour or so... For reading a book you better off getting it on paper, much nicer. As for papers, well, depends what you do with them.

But it's like hating XML ... Even if you don't like it, you'll have to use it sooner or later.



I'd say, make your own, if it beats their's, sell them your source and you'll be nice and rich in a snap!.

But its usually way too easy to pull something down... Whats hard is to make it airborne and stay up.

That said: theres always better ways of doing things.

The FoxIt reader is a good alternative to adobe's.

It is, indeed.

I've been using FoxIt for over a year and I'm pretty happy with it. Its is unbelievable fast compared to the bloatware that Adobe puts out. Foxit ignores my default network printer settings though which drives me nuts. I have to always manually select double sided printing. I keep hoping that a new version will fix it, but I haven't got any loving yet.

New acrobat versions are faster cause it loads to ram when windows starts...

Just like office...

Ahahahaha

I've been using Foxit for ages too, it's tonnes faster than acrobat!

P.S. : http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=14585

Yep - I use it. Much faster than Adobe.

Adobe sucks in all cases. Their Reader is very big in size compared to just open documents and their Photoshop's are nice, but even the GIMP beats them K.O!

Kale wrote:I've been using Foxit for ages too, it's tonnes faster than acrobat!

Yes but printing is a lot slower, I hope they fix that soon...

I read, I do believe, that you can NOT use this reader in commercial applications. Yes?