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Is there a small .pdf viewer available. Am not a great fan of Adobe Acrobat
so would like a tiny app if possible. Have Googled but without much success.
Thanks for any help.
 
Is there a small .pdf viewer available. Am not a great fan of Adobe Acrobat
so would like a tiny app if possible. Have Googled but without much success.
Thanks for any help.
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If you can't find what you're looking for, you can get older versions of
Acrobat here, which are much smaller and probably a lot faster as well..
might be worth a try.. http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=acrobat
 
Kerodo said:
If you can't find what you're looking for, you can get older versions of
Acrobat here, which are much smaller and probably a lot faster as well..
might be worth a try.. http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=acrobat
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I tried the program that Ceg recommended & it seems to do the job. I did
look at oldversion.com but wasn't sure whether Adobe Acrobat version 2 would
work on my XP machine?
 
Ceg said:
http://www.cadkas.com/downengpdf5.php
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I'm not really impressed with this as a viewer. It is slower to load
than Adobe, much slower to move page-to-page, and has a very annoying
flicker as it scrolls the screen Also, it printed the pages wrong
(too large), made mistakes on fonts and stripped out all the
bold-face.

The full version ($79) has all sorts of interesting tools for editing,
but I'm sticking with Reader 5 for now since I only need to view and
print. Too bad, I was hoping to have a reasonable alternative.

Eric
 
I'm not really impressed with this as a viewer. It is slower to load
than Adobe, much slower to move page-to-page, and has a very annoying
flicker as it scrolls the screen Also, it printed the pages wrong
(too large), made mistakes on fonts and stripped out all the
bold-face.

The full version ($79) has all sorts of interesting tools for editing,
but I'm sticking with Reader 5 for now since I only need to view and
print. Too bad, I was hoping to have a reasonable alternative.

Eric[/QUOTE]

you only really need adobe 3 or 4 (preferably four) and both work on XP. 5
and above just add extra crap that slow the system down (esp. 6)
 
*ProteanThread* said:
you only really need adobe 3 or 4 (preferably four) and both work on XP. 5
and above just add extra crap that slow the system down (esp. 6)
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll move back down to 4 and try it out.
I guess I can always reinstall 5 if I hit something that won't
display.

Eric
 
Eric said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll move back down to 4 and try it out.
I guess I can always reinstall 5 if I hit something that won't
display.
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Adobe (Acrobat) Reader can be made load faster and reduce memory
consumption by taking some of program's plug-in additions out of
use by moving plug-in files to another folder. Instructions for it:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11041

This trimming speeds up also older versions slightly.
 
you only really need adobe 3 or 4 (preferably four) and both work on XP.
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....although there are some files created with security features in
version 5 and up that can't be read by 4.

Mark Kolber
Denver, Colorado
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