PDF Reader

Craig321 · 19 Mar 2009 at 14:51

Looking for a decent, free PDF reader. I'm tried of Adobe Reader's slowness and breakiness :rolleyes:

Thanks,
Craig.

Tomsk · 19 Mar 2009 at 14:53

Foxit.
I still prefer Adobe though.

Greenlizard0 · 19 Mar 2009 at 15:17

I moved from Foxit to Sumatra PDF. I have to say PDF is a heavy bloaty cumbersome format. I don't like it at all.

Craig321 · 19 Mar 2009 at 15:20

Foxit and Sumatra are both quite good. Not sure which one to go for at the minute. Quite like Sumatra for it's simpleness & Foxit as it's very similar to Adobe Reader.

Shamikebab · 19 Mar 2009 at 15:22

CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Copied from elsewhere. Personally I've only used Ghostscript and I still prefer Adobe.

bledd · 19 Mar 2009 at 17:29

i use foxit, but i hate pdfs, just like i hate quicktime..

i have to use them for motherboard manuals and movie trailers

cje · 19 Mar 2009 at 17:33

I just can't read them off my pc screen. Have to print them out every time. Motherboard manuals, I can read, but I just can't take any info in when it comes to articles in scientific journals or research.

MarcLister · 19 Mar 2009 at 18:09

Foxit is good. Sumatra better in some ways, but for me not as good overall as Foxit.

jbloggs · 19 Mar 2009 at 18:33

I found Sumatra didn't display the odd PDF file properly, so just went back to Foxit, which does...

Craig321 · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:00

bledd. said:
i use foxit, but i hate pdfs, just like i hate quicktime..

i have to use them for motherboard manuals and movie trailers

Same. It's a shame so many documents are PDF - pretty much forces me to install a PDF reader.

jbloggs said:
I found Sumatra didn't display the odd PDF file properly, so just went back to Foxit, which does...

Yeah, I noticed that when testing it earlier, Sumatra was all extremely slow when it came to rendering largish PDFs.

I really like Foxit at the moment, looks like Adobe Reader & is extremely quick

Thanks everyone for the suggestions etc.
Craig.

FishThrower · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:49

Craig321 said:
Same. It's a shame so many documents are PDF - pretty much forces me to install a PDF reader.

Craig.

I wouldnt like to imagine the computing world without a PDF reader.. that would be a nightmare.....

PDFs is a document container, every machine has to have it!

gurusan · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:50

Foxit for me