Foxit at work

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Has anyone actually rolled this out or encorporated it into a build for work use as an alternative to Adobe Reader?
 
We don't use it at work - we're still using acrobat. Foxit is much faster and has a much smaller footprint...overall it's a better program. I wish that IT here would open their eyes and make the switch. We could save a fortune as a company.
 
I've heard there is some issues with paticularly large PDFs, for example electrical drawings etc.

How would you save a fortune? I'm under the impression that both peices of software are free or charge? We're using Adobe Reader 6.0 at the moment :p
 
Wardie said:
Nice :)

How many systems have you got running it? I'm thinking of suggesting it here but i'm just trying to see if anyone has done it before and find out about any issues or problems they had.
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Deployed on about 300 workstations currently, but will be rolled out to about ~700+ in the next few weeks. No issues as yet :)

Burnsy
 
I've got about 60 users on Foxit Reader using it very heavily, mostly for large format plans and drawings.

It's good, but there are a couple of areas where Adobe Reader beats it. It is slower to print, sometimes annoyingly so and there is no "Select Paper Size from PDF page size" option in the print window which is a boon when you want to print a plan and don't know what the original size was. It doesn't zoom on the mouse wheel which is something my users miss too.

As a day to day reader for normal PDF's the size and speed advantages make it a worthwhile improvement over Adobe, but for large format stuff that you need to print lots of, we keep Adobe installed on those machines.
 
I find Foxit better than Acrobat for everything except what I need it for. It is too slow rendering detailed Architectural Drawings, acrobat beats it hands down. Oh ... and as mentioned above it is still missing some useful print features.

Nate
 
I've only found one problem with FoxIt - it doesn't like the GM Goodwrench catalogue PDF, all the formatting goes to hell and most of the photos go AWOL. Not sure what the problem is, since every other file I've viewed in it works just fine.
 
Encountered same problem here with foxt with large (talking 100mb) pdf's with complex diagrams (town planning office diagrams)

Other than that, it's installed on around 200 pc's, remaining 5-600 had adobe but being phased out for foxit. Good little program.
 
I was thinking of suggesting it, but there's little point unless it is used solely, rather than using both Adobe/Foxit.

We're talking around 2000 systems so i'd rather not take the chance, hopefully they'll address it within the next version because from what I can tell that's the only thing Adobe really has over it.
 
I tried to roll Foxit out in our company but it just wouldn't render the wiring and dimension diagrams properly in our instruction leaflets (line thicknesses and positions were off) so it became useless (pdfs made from indesign cs2). It's a real shame because it is a great bit of software
 
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