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Sunday
Jul262009

Alternatives to Adobe Reader

DateSunday, July 26, 2009 at 6:14AM
foxitreaderAdobe Reader has another zero day exploit and I have finally switched to an alternative PDF reader on all my Windows PCs. There are many good  PDF readers on the market most are free and some are even Open Source. I currently recommend Foxit Reader and Sumatra PDF for opening PDF files. If your looking for a product that is a drop in replacement for Adobe Reader then Foxit Reader is a great product. If you only need a bare bones PDF reader  then the Free and Open Source  Sumatra PDF is your reader. Both Foxit Reader and Sumatra PDF are very lightweight and will even run off of a flash drive.  Adobe Reader 9 weighs in at 212MB of bloat in its folder on my Vista PC. By comparison Foxit Reader takes up 7.17 MB and Sumatra PDF takes up 1.43MB. Check out both products at the links below.

Sumatra PDF  http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

Foxit Reader  http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

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