Re: FN-FORUM: friday rant - this week adobe...

date posted 15th July 2005 14:54

Derek C.Almond wrote:
>
> hands up who's got a nice free pdf reader for windows?
>
> adobe have a free one of course, but I'd hardly call it nice, the slow
> loading, memory eating bag of shite ;-( and at 26.8MB for the installer
> its not even going to get a download if I can help it. I do have
> another one that's only about 3 megs, but this seems to crash a lot at
> the moment... obviously the other 23.8 megs of code is required to
> stoping that ;-)

Maybe you're aware of it already and dont want to use Adobe Reader under
any circumstances, but there are alot of tweaks you can do to speed it
up. For instance:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2004/12/22/330288.aspx

Theres also some registry tweaks out there too if you google enough.

Stephen