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TallyMan
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30 May 2010, 3:34 pm

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Nitro PDF Software on Tuesday released a free reader built to break rival Adobe System's grip on the world's top digital document format.


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http://www.physorg.com/news194011919.html

Anyone else tried it yet? I'm sick of Adobe reader and its bloat and endless security problems. Also sick of the fact that when it updates it insists on putting an icon on my desktop and in my start menu and adding itself to the system startup list. I also dislike the way it is so hit and miss pulling text out of PDF documents - sometimes it works sometimes it throws the text out one word per line. Really crappy software.


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30 May 2010, 3:38 pm

You still use Adobe Reader?

For Mac users, the default Preview is a reasonable PDF reader. For Linux users, Evince is good. I still haven't found a PDF reader I like on Windows. Been using Foxit in the meantime. Adobe, though... that's just not even an option.


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30 May 2010, 3:54 pm

Orwell wrote:
You still use Adobe Reader?

For Mac users, the default Preview is a reasonable PDF reader. For Linux users, Evince is good. I still haven't found a PDF reader I like on Windows. Been using Foxit in the meantime. Adobe, though... that's just not even an option.


I used to use Foxit on my XP computer, though I found the rendering a bit ragged around the edges sometimes. I've left Adobe on this Vista computer because it came pre-installed I think it may be tied in with other bits of pre-installed software too so haven't unistalled it in case it destabilises something else. However, I think it is high time I downloaded a different PDF reader again and associated PDF file types with it.


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30 May 2010, 5:01 pm

I remember when I first moved to linux. I encountered a pdf and thought "oh no, a damn pdf!" But poof! It just opened. I was so shocked and delighted. I used to hate the damn things solely for how adobe treats them(and my computer).


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30 May 2010, 5:34 pm

TallyMan wrote:
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Nitro PDF Software on Tuesday released a free reader built to break rival Adobe System's grip on the world's top digital document format.


Full article:
http://www.physorg.com/news194011919.html

Anyone else tried it yet? I'm sick of Adobe reader and its bloat and endless security problems. Also sick of the fact that when it updates it insists on putting an icon on my desktop and in my start menu and adding itself to the system startup list. I also dislike the way it is so hit and miss pulling text out of PDF documents - sometimes it works sometimes it throws the text out one word per line. Really crappy software.


True, that desktop icon thing really takes the piss! Good software is advertised by word of mouth, so Adobe forcing people to advertise their product via a desktop icon speaks volumes...
How did Adobe become so popular in the first place? Oh, wasn't it the usual Microsoft-style 'buying competitors and others who did the actual invention process'?


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