The bear
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i am in great need for a free (both in price and disk space) alternative to adobe acrobat. i know there is one out there it is just for the life of me i cannot remember the name of it.
can anyone direct me to it.
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~Steph~
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Loc: North Texas
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Are you talking about a PDF reader? Here's one I've heard good things about, though I've never tried it. It's for Windows...
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
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The bear
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thanks steph this is just what am looking for no more 1.? gb of space taken up.
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~Steph~
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Let us know how it works...I've been thinking about ditching Adobe myself. I especially want to get a small program for my EEE which doesn't have a PDF reader on it at the moment.
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daev
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I'll second the vote for foxit.. been using it for ages now. Small size, low overhead. And it doesn't take forever to fire up or require an additional background process to be running when not in use.
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The bear
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this puppy is great and it will do what i need try it out.
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NeoDinian
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I donno... Adobe works great... But then again, I have the full acrobat package... I guess when you spend over $300.00 on the software, it works better than the free reader. 
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rboe
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We've used cute pdf for several years to edit and create as well as read pdf's (we tend to use Adobe Reader for just viewing though).
This link is for the free version.
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groz
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Let us know how it works...I've been thinking about ditching Adobe myself. I especially want to get a small program for my EEE which doesn't have a PDF reader on it at the moment.
Mine came with one. In the 'work' tab is of all things 'pdf reader'.
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The bear
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thanks for the info i will try both out and se which one i like best cannot beat free i am afraid and having the full package and not using but the acrobat and it taking a little over 1.5 gb!! i think not. i just happened to notice it when i went to upgrade and the upgrade would not work i looked under add remove and low and behold i never noticed it before and i am tired of adobe update crashing and having to reload it.
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~Steph~
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Let us know how it works...I've been thinking about ditching Adobe myself. I especially want to get a small program for my EEE which doesn't have a PDF reader on it at the moment.
Mine came with one. In the 'work' tab is of all things 'pdf reader'.
I replaced Linux with XP on mine, so don't have any of that stuff any more.
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JAT Observatory
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I tried the Foxit thing based on a link from here. At first I likedit as it does load fast and takes up little space. But then I found it didn't display some documents quite right. Since I sometimes use my home PC for work I couldn't have that so I ditched to software and went back to Adobe. It loads slower, takes up alot more disk space, but it works.
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