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Adobe Reader 9 released, Adobe Reader Lite 9 unofficially released
by Brad Linder Jul 8th 2008 at 4:00PM
While there are plenty of alternative PDF readers (some of our favorites include Foxit and Sumatra), if you want an application that can handle pretty much any PDF file in existence, you're still best off running Adobe Reader, even if it has a ton of features you'll never need. Fortunately, there's a stripped down version of Adobe Reader called Adobe Reader Lite.
Adobe Reader Lite is maintained by a third party developer and isn't officially supported by Adobe. But version 9 was released last week, hot on the heels of Adobe Reader 9. AR Lite contains all of the basic functions you'd need from Adobe Reader, but none of the extra junk like autorun, desktop shortcuts, or some of the less frequently used plugins.
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chrisaroz said 5:56PM on 7-08-2008
So how does Lite compare to Foxit?
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Eli Gundry said 7:31AM on 7-09-2008
I hate to say this, but Adobe is becoming less and less revelant, at least with PDF readers. Don'g get me wrong. i love Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver, but I no longer have Acrobat installed on my machine. Why? Because it costs to much and is bloated. And Reader is just an awful, awful software.
When I work on peoples computers, one of the first things I uninstall is Adobe Reader and install Foxit or Sumatra.
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Dave Forster said 7:31AM on 7-09-2008
Try Adobe Reader Speedup (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adobespeedup.html)... it disables all but the most essential plugins and makes Adobe reader run like a charm. It may actually disable all the plugins period but it's fully configurable either way.
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Jhongerkong said 7:07AM on 7-10-2008
Yeah, Adobe Reader is a piece of shit. Im happy that I found out about Foxit. 1000x better.
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