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Old 04-01-2017, 10:52
albertd
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Has anyone else found that whenever an update to Foxit Reader is installed the internet connection gets lost for a while shortly after?
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Old Yesterday, 10:05
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Never did with me when i used foxit, I use samutra PDF these days, which someone on here i think recommended, smaller than foxit and does the job well.
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Old Yesterday, 11:12
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I've always used Acrobat. Is there any reason to use anything else? (Actually, I didn't know there was anything else.)
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Old Yesterday, 11:30
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Adobe Reader is just bloat.
there are many PDF readers.

Chrome has PDF support built-in - no third party reader required.
Mac OS has had built-in support for PDF for many many years.
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Old Yesterday, 12:54
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Yep, as chenks posted, Acrobat reader is bloat, i have not used it for years, loads of different readers around.
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Old Yesterday, 13:10
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I've always used Acrobat. Is there any reason to use anything else? (Actually, I didn't know there was anything else.)
Foxit is much lighter both on disk space and resources consumed than Adobe Reader. So far I have only come across a tiny number of PDFs that Foxit can't handle. There are some Government forms in PDF format you can download to fill out that only seem to work in Adobe. But other than that Foxit opens pretty much any PDF perfectly OK.
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Old Yesterday, 17:39
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I use samutra PDF these days, which someone on here i think recommended, smaller than foxit and does the job well.
Do you mean Sumatra PDF from https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org ?
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Old Yesterday, 18:56
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Sumatra seconded......Works well.
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Old Yesterday, 19:14
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"I've always used Acrobat. Is there any reason to use anything else?"

Adobe Reader is fine, standard install, nothing wrong with it, does the job well. Windows 8.1/10 also has the Reader App as standard which will do PDFs. By default I think Windows 10 uses the Edge Browser for PDFs, but you can change that.

2 PDF readers are standard within Windows 10, so there is no need to install any extra PDF Reader as such, you could say they are all 'bloat'.
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