Adobe Reader 9 released, Adobe Reader Lite 9 unofficially released

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Adobe Reader 9 released, Adobe Reader Lite 9 unofficially released

by Brad Linder Jul 8th 2008

Adobe Reader 9 is out, and while the latest version of Adobe's popular PDF reader offers faster launch speeds and native support for Flash content, it still takes forever to run Adobe Reader on some computer systems. If you've ever come across an unexpected PDF link on the web, you know what we mean.

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.

[via gHacks]

Tags: adobe-reader, adobe-reader-9, adobe-reader-lite

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

chrisaroz said 5:56PM on 7-08-2008

So how does Lite compare to Foxit?

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.

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.

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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