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Hance |
screw adobe reader its a bloated POS use this http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php its small fast and free
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#35, Because it's convenient?
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tr1kstanc3 |
whoa, never knew about foxit. i now use it exclusively! thanks.
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Ansath |
Has anyone else here experienced severe problems running Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 on a dual monitor setup with an ATI x1300 Pro 256 meg card? I downloaded the trial version and it blue screens both monitors and totally freezes the system every time I try to combine files or use the advanced features. I have to shut the power off and reboot to get my system running again.
I downloaded it because I use Autocad 2007 at work, and Acrobat 8.0 has new features that integrate into Autocad (and Office and Internet Explorer and pretty much everything on the system has a new Adobe toolbar that I can't seem to get rid of, even after uninstalling it) and anyway, part of what I do is to create PDF's of our cad files and send them to clients. This could obviously be a whole hell of a lot easier with the supposed new features of acrobat 8, since it will create a single file with all the pages from a set of autocad construction drawings. Unfortunately the thing totally freezes and blues screens both monitors on my work system like every 2 minutes, so the new features don't amount to much increased productivity. And we just got new systems, Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz with 4megs L2 cache, 2 gigs DDR-667 ram, dual monitors, ATI x1300 Pro 256 meg cards, etc. They are Dell Optiplex 745 systems. (I did not make the office computer hardware purchasing decisions, but I did suggest getting the Core 2 duo and 2 gigs ram.) ((They were going to buy 1500 dollar Dell systems with Pentium D cpus and 1 gig ram until I intervened)) I'm wondering if the problem is actually Acrobat 8.0 or is it my Catalyst drivers (I have the latest version) or the Dell computer itself. Anyone have any ideas? I'm not sure if this is on topic, but it definitely involves Adobe so what the hell. I uninstalled Acrobat 8.0 so that I could get some work done, and reinstalled Acrobat 6.0 Standard, which runs flawlessly, other than being slow and lacking features. Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Pro managed to leave all it's new menus in Acad 2007 (now functionless) even after I uninstalled... and I haven't figured out how to remove them yet. |
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Usually I'm ready to jump on the bash-Adobe bandwagon, but I gave Reader 8 a chance, and holy crap is it fast. I feels a lot more responsive than Reader 7, stuff loads almost instantly and scrolls quickly. It's an amazing difference.
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Buub |
Let me jump on the bandwagon!
Acrobat has to be the buggiest, worst written piece of vile crap that I've had the displeasure of polluting my system. It can't even shut down without crashing! |
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Usacomp2k3 |
Foxit here on my desktop, AR8 on my laptop *shrug*
Oh, and the PDF download extension in firefox is a must-have. |
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alex666 |
BEWARE.
When I downloaded this from the site specified, it tried to install some SE version of Photoshop. It's easy to miss this if you turn away from your computer. I HATE it when this happens. Adobe should know better for this kind of crap, which is barely above a drive-by. That said, it works fine, but still not as fast as foxit, AND it managed to bump foxit as the default reader, which I reset. I like having both programs as sometimes I have trouble printing pdfs when using foxit. |
#23, ....troll.
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JustAnEngineer |
Aero does not require SM3.0 (introduced with DX9.0c). Aero requires SM2.0 (Introduced with DX9.0). This means that Radeon 9500/9550/9600 are golden. Even a lowly GeForceFX 5700 can manage Aero with its limited support of SM2.0.
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flip-mode |
Adobe SUCKS. I said SUCKS. Despite the extensive capabilities of many of their programs they still suck. I can't believe that someone hasn't knocked them off their perch by now.
What's more, Acrobat is one of the worst programs of the lot. Acrobat reader, or Adobe reader, is slow and mega bloated. Foxit Reader FTW. |
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DrDillyBar |
Like I'm going to pay $150 for an upgrade version just so it displays pages faster. It displays pretty fast already thanks.
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indeego |
People on the Adobe forums are whining about this for older machines when you scroll through a document... Funny enough the fix is to disable acceleration on your graphics card.
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Fighterpilot |
This is a good one too.Works fine with Vista also.
http://www.visagesoft.com/products/pdfreader/index.php |
update: Nope. Maybe for version NINE? I understand being able to bookmark and restore the environment on startup is a _very_ advanced feature and that Adobe might not have the know-how inhouse and need to hire some primadona programmers to pull such advanced software-engineering off. I guess no competent designers nor programmers would _want_ to work for Adobe, but surely you guys can bribe SOMEONE to do it? My web browser been able to do it since the mid 90s, maybe you can look for one of those guys...