Acrobat Reader is now 657 megabytes in size!

[AthlonXP1800]

657MB for Acrobat Reader latest version? That very weird. I not installed it since last time I used Acrobat Reader DC 15 back in 2015 to filled in forms and send it to DWP then I uninstalled it as I am no longer needed it because browsers now can fill forms in pdfs, can printing pdfs and can zooming in pdfs.

I tested installed latest version 23.001.20064 on VM and checked file size was 574MB, tried checked for latest update but found no update then uninstalled it. I got no idea where your 657MB come from.



I also tested installed every version to showed file size below.

1993 Acrobat Reader 1 DOS 2.30MB
1994 Acrobat Reader 2 1.20MB
1996 Acrobat Reader 3 5.19MB
1999 Acrobat Reader 4 5.80MB
2001 Acrobat Reader 5 12.2MB
2003 Acrobat Reader 6 43.52MB
2004 Acrobat Reader 7 35.3MB
2006 Acrobat Reader 8 117MB
2008 Acrobat Reader 9 204MB
2010 Acrobat Reader 10 110MB After update to 10.1.16 163MB
2012 Acrobat Reader 11 120MB After update to 11.0.20 255MB
2015 Acrobat Reader DC 15 201MB
2017 Acrobat Reader DC 17 242MB
2018 Acrobat Reader DC 18 253MB
2019 Acrobat Reader DC 19 317MB
2020 Acrobat Reader DC 20 324MB
2021 Acrobat Reader DC 21 525MB
2022 Acrobat Reader DC 22 462MB
2023 Acrobat Reader DC 23 574MB

Acrobat Reader massive bloated file size wasted space after 298 security updates since 1999.

All browsers Chrome, Edge, Firefox used PDF.js for view PDFs, the latest version 3.3.122 file size is very tiny 3.94MB. That is much smaller than Acrobat Reader 3 file size 5.19MB back in 1996!

PDF.js - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Armageus]

Regarding opening in a new tab vs a dedicated window that can sit on another monitor, like all browsers, just drag the tab out of its parent window, you now have a window to move to wherever.

I know it sounds like a minor thing, but when you do it a number of times a day, having to drag it out of a browser into a new window and then move the window between screens is a huge inconvenience

Work smarter not harder etc

 

[ik9000]

657MB for Acrobat Reader latest version? That very weird. I not installed it since last time I used Acrobat Reader DC 15 back in 2015 to filled in forms and send it to DWP then I uninstalled it as I am no longer needed it because browsers now can fill forms in pdfs, can printing pdfs and can zooming in pdfs.

I tested installed latest version 23.001.20064 on VM and checked file size was 574MB, tried checked for latest update but found no update then uninstalled it. I got no idea where your 657MB come from.



I also tested installed every version to showed file size below.

1993 Acrobat Reader 1 DOS 2.30MB
1994 Acrobat Reader 2 1.20MB
1996 Acrobat Reader 3 5.19MB
1999 Acrobat Reader 4 5.80MB
2001 Acrobat Reader 5 12.2MB
2003 Acrobat Reader 6 43.52MB
2004 Acrobat Reader 7 35.3MB
2006 Acrobat Reader 8 117MB
2008 Acrobat Reader 9 204MB
2010 Acrobat Reader 10 110MB After update to 10.1.16 163MB
2012 Acrobat Reader 11 120MB After update to 11.0.20 255MB
2015 Acrobat Reader DC 15 201MB
2017 Acrobat Reader DC 17 242MB
2018 Acrobat Reader DC 18 253MB
2019 Acrobat Reader DC 19 317MB
2020 Acrobat Reader DC 20 324MB
2021 Acrobat Reader DC 21 525MB
2022 Acrobat Reader DC 22 462MB
2023 Acrobat Reader DC 23 574MB

Acrobat Reader massive bloated file size wasted space after 298 security updates since 1999.

All browsers Chrome, Edge, Firefox used PDF.js for view PDFs, the latest version 3.3.122 file size is very tiny 3.94MB. That is much smaller than Acrobat Reader 3 file size 5.19MB back in 1996!

PDF.js - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

what version of adobe 9 reader you running? I got 9.5.5 here and it's 110MB according to programs & features, and 96.8MB in the x86 folder

 

[darael]

Is that install or cache? Android loves to cache lots.

That's installed on Windows. After uninstalling it with Revo Uninstaller and reinstalling Foxit, it's now 548 MB.

 

[Pottsey]

I still am puzzled why people are installing dedicated PDF readers, not needed on both mobile and desktop. Google Drive opens PDFs on Android, and the web browser handles PDFs on desktop as mentioned above by a bunch of us.

Google and web browsers do not consistently open PDFs correctly and do not consistently print them correctly. The vast majority of PDF's work but when you are dealing with PDFs all day even a 1% failed rate adds up to a lot of wasted time. When you multiple 1% fail rate per user across a 1000 users well the amount of work generated for tech support is rather large. That's why dedicated PDF readers are often pushed out at work.

The other factor are all the littles glitch's users don't notice at home as it doesn't matter. For example the formatting is a little off or not fitting the page correctly. But in other environments that matters so dedicated PDF readers it is.