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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: Baz on August 26, 2007, 10:56

Title: pdf
Post by: Baz on August 26, 2007, 10:56

what do people use to read pdf documents.

at the moment I use Adobe Reader as I guess a lot of people do but are there any better ones. I seem to get bother with this. It freezes, hangs when shutting documents, seems slow etc.

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: Simon on August 26, 2007, 11:04

I have always assumed Adobe Reader was the only one.  I certainly haven't heard of anything else, but there may well be other compatible applications.  Have you tried re-installing the latest version, Baz?

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: Rik on August 26, 2007, 11:30

There's the Foxit (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php) software, which a lot of people recommend (I've not tried it as I have the full Acrobat).

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: Simon on August 26, 2007, 11:57

Hi Rik, and  :welcome:

Good to see you here!   ;)

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: Rik on August 26, 2007, 12:22

Thank you, nice to be here. :)

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: sam on August 27, 2007, 19:25

foxit is pretty darn good.

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: Reno on September 05, 2007, 01:22

Oldversion has all the previous versions of Adobe acrobat. Many of them do the same thing as the newer ones but without all the added features and other junk that tends to slow them down.

http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=acrobat

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: Baz on September 05, 2007, 14:16

Thanks guys will try the Foxit one and see what its like. I dont use Adobe much but its one of  those programs you need sometimes so I just went for that originally but like I say it seems to give loads of bother.

Yeah thats a good site Bob use that now and then also have you tried this one http://www.oldapps.com/

Title: Re: pdf
Post by: davy51 on September 05, 2007, 15:19

I have used foxit for a good bit

it never fails its not bloated software and simply it just works when you need it