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Just wondering what the current favourite program is for viewing PDF files.
Adobe Reader may be good again, but I wouldn't know as it is the Norton or Telstra of the PDF world.
I am currently using Foxit Reader 5.4.5, had 6.0 for a short period of time, but the f***er wouldn't stay out of my browser so I put it out of my misery. Yes I know about the options/preferences to turn of show in browser, but it just wouldn't turn off.
So what should I look at? Is Foxit Reader 6.2.2 working correctly again?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I use Google Chrome Browser. fine for my needs!
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Michael Martin wrote: but the f***er wouldn't stay out of my browser
The last REader version is ok for me (with updates turned off). Computers are now so powerful that the 1Gb RAM it needs does not impact performance anymore.
You can prevent Adobe from invading your browser ; I honestly do not know what is exactly displaying PDFs in my browser (Adobe plug-in or the browsers nateively), but it works, so I never bothered looking.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I either view them in the browser, or user PDF Xchange Viewer[^]
SumatraPDF is another popular viewer.
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I second PDF Xchange Viewer.
I used Foxit for all my client machines for a long time but it began to get almost as intrusive as Adobe so I switched to PDF Xchange and I have used that for a year or so without problem.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Adobe Reader still is the consistent winner for me. Overall, I have the least amount of problems with it compared to other pdf software that I have tried/used in the past.
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What problems have you had, exactly?
Are you saying that adobe's grand* design for portable documents is flawed?
* Read: "absolute piece of sh1te"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I use SumatraPDF, it's simple & speeder. Before SumatraPDF, I did use Foxit but it was also same as Adobe Reader during later days.
As a fan of comics, I'm happy with SumatraPDF to view pdf files.
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I went back to Foxit 3.1. A nice clean reader without all the 'extras' that no one wants.
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pdf.js in Firefox.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I use Adobe Reader X and it works.
I also use chrome as a viewer.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Sumatra PDF. Blazing fast.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I am using Foxit 6.2.2 and it is working fine, i.e. not showing in my browser. I had it that way for awhile but don't really care to work that way. I have tried all the other ones listed but Foxit seems best to me. I haven't noticed any of the issues with it that others have.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I've been using Foxit PDF Viewer[^] for years and it's gotten better with every version.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Foxit doesn't control whether or not pdfs will open in a browser; you have to set that in the browser.
I think I'd be a bit peeved if another program decided what my browser was and wasn't allowed to do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Foxit doesn't control whether or not pdfs will open in a browser; you have to set that in the browser.
I think I'd be a bit peeved if another program decided what my browser was and wasn't allowed to do.
I know, but when I told Foxit to stick it's plug-in that displays the PDF in the browser, to f*** right off, it still turned up and showed the PDF in the browser.
In previous versions it listens to the preferences I set and didn't dsiplay in browser.
I got my knickers in a twist, gave Foxit 6 a headbutt and continued to use 5.x. Now thought I may be missing out on something due to using older program.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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or why do i get the feeling that CP is quite empty these days ?
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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This is my last day before two and a bit weeks off.
We're stopping here[^], 3D TV, full Sky TV subscription, X-box, and next door to a pub with its own butchers. Fortunately it looks like it is going to rain a lot.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Fortunately it looks like it is going to rain a lot.
Lots of shopping centres are covered nowadays - mwahahahaha! [twirly moustache evil laugh]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Everybody that's anybody is here? 
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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"Anaesthetist has an idea that is integrally pure."(6,6)
Off you go then.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Does this relate to Chloroform by any means?
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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Obliquely
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Whoa, this is now my new standard answer.
"-How are you today ?"
"-Obliquely."
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Super Snipe maker uses Nitrogen in place of Hydrogen then adds Helium and Oxygen in attempt to figure hypothesis (6,6)
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