Acrobat Reader is now 657 megabytes in size!

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I know that terabyte-sized drives are cheap now, but seriously? It's no wonder why it takes a few seconds to open up, even being on a solid state drive. This is just the Reader as well, not the full works. Unfortunately it's my work's machine so I can't change PDF readers. I just wonder why it needs to be so big?

On my home machine, I use Foxit Reader which is just an 8.87MB executable plus a 6.25KB ini file. It opens any PDF I throw at it, and it can edit the forms-based ones too like on Adobe.

 

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I think the reader is essentially the full program but with some features not enabled to the user.

Ah that might make sense. A full program with some of its code disabled if you don't have a full license. It reminds me of CPUs that have some features disabled e.g. a core locked (removed from play) if paying less for the same CPU.

 

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As much as i hate anything Adobe it's called 'Acrobat' Reader and not PDF reader. Basically there's a load of stuff in it that most people couldn't give a rats ass about like the ability to play embedded video & audio, database functionality, and it even has a mail server built in for sending and collecting data people put into a PDF.

Erm. Can you please repeat back to me what my thread title is?

 

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For me, I can override bright colours on Foxit. This is an important feature for me being visually impaired.

I didn't know that Foxit is over 500MB now. I use the portable app version and it's under 10MB. Desktop, not mobile.