Get bored about time to wait while loading Acrobat Reader 6 ?

There is an efficient tool, and this is a freeware.

As we know, Acrobat Reader takes 16 Mo on a hard drive, and take a "certain time" to be ready (ie we wait a lot when it starts ! That's because this software loads, while starting, a great sum of modules -wich are not really usefull usually !-).

Then,while surfing on the net, i found this site, http://www.foxitsoftware.com and Foxit PDF Reader (freeware).

And what a surprise : this one do the same as Acrobat Reader 6, go really faster, and take only 2 mo on your harddisk !!!

Then, here you are, here is the link to download it ;-) go to the end of the page, and click "download"...

This post has been edited by microscopic^earthling: Jun 28 2005, 03:51 PM

I have installed adobw, it's very good software, i don't care about the space on my harddrive, but for some of us, this could be a very usefull option.

I might check it out, the space it takes is irrelevant to me, as probably most people nowadays with the size of HDD's as high as they are now...but if it actually loads much faster and has nearly as many fatures it could be worth checking into

I've never had any problems with the Adobe version and it's out for all the platforms I use, so I think I'll keep using it.

Adobe is extremely reliable (except I did corrupt the entire program once and had to reinstall it...but that wasn't my or adobes fault haha) but I do agree that its startup time leaves something to be desired especially on lower end hardware. At home its fine since I have a fairly speedy rig but at work here the comp I'm on is kind of mid-low level so it could use a speedier pdf viewer since I have to use pdf files all the time lately.

After reading this post I have downloaded it , used it for 5 minutes and uninstalled it. Why????
Because I have compared the page quality of both Adobe and Foxit . The pdf page quality displayed by foxit was very bad. Sometimes it was unable to read the page.
So I am stick with Adobe Reader.