Low reasource office apps (.pdf and .doc)

Howski · 10 Jun 2008 at 13:16

Hi,

Right at my place of work we have to open a lot of .pdf and .doc files. I don't really need to edit them just look at them. The problem is we don't have great computers and they struggle with this. We have full blown versions of ofiice 2003 and Acrobat reader 8 installed.

So the question is this. I know there are 3rd party versions of this SW out there, for at least just reading the documents. The question is reasources, what it the best program to use to view these file types in terms of the system reasources used?
Cheers
-Howard

Conrad11 · 10 Jun 2008 at 13:27

FoxIT Reader for .pdfs.

Freeware.

There is a freeware microsoft document reader too from Microsoft themselves. Just for read-only....google it.

bledd · 10 Jun 2008 at 13:52

just buy new pc's

the ammount of time saved by using a half decent pc outweighs finding other solutions..

z0mbi3 · 10 Jun 2008 at 13:54

bledd. said:
just buy new pc's

the ammount of time saved by using a half decent pc outweighs finding other solutions..

Even so Foxit Reader is definitely worth a look, completely replaced Adobe Reader for me at home. Will get round to installing it at work sooner or later.

bledd · 10 Jun 2008 at 13:55

z0mbi3 said:
Even so Foxit Reader is definitely worth a look, completely replaced Adobe Reader for me at home. Will get round to installing it at work sooner or later.

true

foxit is damn fast

Dark_Angel · 10 Jun 2008 at 13:57

bledd. said:
just buy new pc's

the ammount of time saved by using a half decent pc outweighs finding other solutions..

This honestly.

I can't imagine how ancient and slow the PC most be if it can't user Microsoft word with out slow down, even an ancient system we had at work (an old P4 with 256MB of ram) ran with no problems!

Howski · 10 Jun 2008 at 14:32

FoxIT Reader for .pdfs.

Cheers just opened a pdf with that and its much quicker. I will try the free office readers when I get 5.

just buy new pc's

the ammount of time saved by using a half decent pc outweighs finding other solutions..

Big company - no joy. Been trying to get that point acrodd for the 8 months I've been here. The sad thing is we make computers!

I can't imagine how ancient and slow the PC most be if it can't user Microsoft word with out slow down, even an ancient system we had at work (an old P4 with 256MB of ram) ran with no problems!

Well its all a question of reasources, the way we work requires outlook open all the time. It also requires 3 instances of IE. and 2 other applications. Thats not counting the apps that are installed and running in the task bar. Add to that a browser to check our essensial documenmts and your using a lot of system resources.

Then if there is a bulitin of note its normally in a word document or pdf so you have to open another application to read that!

I have a 2GHz with 512MB of RAM and it struggles. My job it measured by the length of time on a call so ever second counts too!
Cheers
-Howard

VeNT · 10 Jun 2008 at 14:36

google docs?

Conrad11 · 10 Jun 2008 at 14:50

Get firefox too.....and use tabs so you dont have 3 instances of IE open.

Glaucus · 10 Jun 2008 at 14:58

open office mobile would be worth a try, never used it so not sure how much it uses.

Howski · 10 Jun 2008 at 15:24

Our brilliant system does not work with anything other than IE 6

bledd · 10 Jun 2008 at 16:24

does it flat out refuse to open in firefox? you can use an addon to 'pretend' to be IE6

VeNT · 10 Jun 2008 at 16:35

I've seen quite a few sites/apps that don't work with firefox/IE7 now, wonder what the real difference is.

Howski · 10 Jun 2008 at 17:29

you mean IE tabs? I think I tried that and it did not work.

From what I've been told a lot of web programmers are lazy and use bugs within IE 6 to format the page correctly and they are not certified to the international standard (WWW3????).

Conrad11 · 10 Jun 2008 at 18:04

Howski said:
you mean IE tabs? I think I tried that and it did not work.

From what I've been told a lot of web programmers are lazy and use bugs within IE 6 to format the page correctly and they are not certified to the international standard (WWW3????).

IE Tab extension should definitely do it, it is simply rendering internet explorer browser object into Firefox, there is no reason why it shouldn't work if you ask me.

I have tried several applications that need IE in it and its worked flawlessly.

z0mbi3 · 10 Jun 2008 at 18:45

Howski said:
Our brilliant system does not work with anything other than IE 6

Same here. We use a web based ticketing tool and it refuses to open in anything other than IE6 despite my best efforts at agent switching under both IE7 and Ff.