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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7-08-2008 @ 5:56PM
chrisaroz said...
So how does Lite compare to Foxit?
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7-09-2008 @ 7:31AM
Eli Gundry said...
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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7-09-2008 @ 7:31AM
Dave Forster said...
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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7-10-2008 @ 7:07AM
Jhongerkong said...
Yeah, Adobe Reader is a piece of shit. Im happy that I found out about Foxit. 1000x better.
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