Best PDF viewer?

Tony wrote:

David L. Jones wrote:

I've installed Foxit and everything is right with the world again

Same here - it's been the same on many PCs and OSs.

Until you try saving the PDF you are reading to your hard drive...

 

john jardine wrote:

'Foxit'. From a recommend on this group. Use nothing else. Leagues faster
than the poxy Adobe offering. About 0.3 seconds from click to view.

Ever try saving a PDF to your hard disk?

 

David L. Jones wrote:

I've installed Foxit and everything is right with the world again (so
far), the speed difference is just incredible!

What happens when you try to save a PDF to your hard disk?

 

[Martin Griffith]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:17:35 +0000, in sci.electronics.design
invalid@example.com wrote:

john jardine wrote:

'Foxit'. From a recommend on this group. Use nothing else. Leagues faster
than the poxy Adobe offering. About 0.3 seconds from click to view.

Ever try saving a PDF to your hard disk?
with foxit, every day, no probs, have you a problem with saving to

disc?


Martin

 

[David L. Jones]

On Nov 17, 10:17 pm, inva...@example.com wrote:

Tony wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:

I've installed Foxit and everything is right with the world again

Same here - it's been the same on many PCs and OSs.

Until you try saving the PDF you are reading to your hard drive...

No, it works just fine in Foxit, thanks.
Select Save As from the File menu, pretty simple.
Or you can select to save it to your hard drive first via your
browser, and then open it.

Dave.

 

[David L. Jones]

On Nov 17, 9:12 pm, Robert Baer <robertb...@localnet.com> wrote:

David L. Jones wrote:
I've finally had a gut-full of Acrobat reader, it just goes from bad
to worse. It used to be excellent but now I can't stand it. Damn thing
locks up all the time (esp when shutting down Windows) and generally
screws things up. And the browser plug-in is borderline useless, which
makes viewing 50 datasheets a day a real pain.

What are the alternatives people are using?

Note, I'm talking about a PDF *viewer*, not a PDF creator.

Thanks
Dave.

I would like reader & creator in one program...anything (other than
Adobe) available?

Why the one program?
It's usually more convenient to simply use a PDF printer driver to
create a PDF from the program you used to write that document. Plenty
of good PDF printer drivers available for free.

Dave.

 

[Rich Webb]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:22:06 +0100, Martin Griffith
<mart_in_medina@ya___.es> wrote:

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:17:35 +0000, in sci.electronics.design
invalid@example.com wrote:




john jardine wrote:

'Foxit'. From a recommend on this group. Use nothing else. Leagues faster
than the poxy Adobe offering. About 0.3 seconds from click to view.

Ever try saving a PDF to your hard disk?
with foxit, every day, no probs,

Here also, saving PDFs from Foxit without any problems whatsoever.

Perhaps if Anonymous Coward er ah ... invalid@example.com is having
difficulties (and not just flinging FUD) he could ask for help?

FWIW, I sprang for the "full" version of Foxit that includes the
annotation and markup tools. Not too expensive and very damned handy
to be able to save notes with PDF datasheets on the order of "in spite
of what it SAYS what it REALLY does here is ..."

 

[Martin Griffith]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:49:42 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich Webb
<bbew.ar@mapson.nozirev.ten> wrote:

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:22:06 +0100, Martin Griffith
mart_in_medina@ya___.es> wrote:

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:17:35 +0000, in sci.electronics.design
invalid@example.com wrote:




john jardine wrote:

'Foxit'. From a recommend on this group. Use nothing else. Leagues faster
than the poxy Adobe offering. About 0.3 seconds from click to view.

Ever try saving a PDF to your hard disk?
with foxit, every day, no probs,

Here also, saving PDFs from Foxit without any problems whatsoever.

Perhaps if Anonymous Coward er ah ... invalid@example.com is having
difficulties (and not just flinging FUD) he could ask for help?

FWIW, I sprang for the "full" version of Foxit that includes the
annotation and markup tools. Not too expensive and very damned handy
to be able to save notes with PDF datasheets on the order of "in spite
of what it SAYS what it REALLY does here is ..."

Ha! always wanted to be able to put yellow post-it notes into pdfs


Martin

 

[mpm]

On Nov 16, 11:36�am, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:41:46 -0800 (PST), "David L. Jones"

altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've finally had a gut-full of Acrobat reader, it just goes from bad
to worse. It used to be excellent but now I can't stand it. Damn thing
locks up all the time (esp when shutting down Windows) and generally
screws things up. And the browser plug-in is borderline useless, which
makes viewing 50 datasheets a day a real pain.

What are the alternatives people are using?

Note, I'm talking about a PDF *viewer*, not a PDF creator.

Thanks
Dave.

I use Foxit to view pdf's and CutePDF to make them. Both are
blindingly fast compared to the Adobe bloatware, and neither seems to
have problems.

I don't use Foxit as a plugin, but as an external application
launcher.

John

Speaking of "bloat"....,

It's pretty interesting that when you save as type PDF from other
Adobe Products (like Illustrator-10, or even PhotoShop Elements 4),
the file sizes are absolutely HUGE. Tens of megabytes sometimes! And
the same exact PDF created with one of those PDF print drivers?:
800k.

-mpm

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:17:28 +0000, invalid@example.com wrote:

Tony wrote:

David L. Jones wrote:

I've installed Foxit and everything is right with the world again

Same here - it's been the same on many PCs and OSs.

Until you try saving the PDF you are reading to your hard drive...

Works fine for me. That's the only way I save pdf's downloaded by
Firefox.

John

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:17:26 -0800 (PST), mpm <mpmillard@aol.com>
wrote:

On Nov 16, 11:36?am, John Larkin
jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:41:46 -0800 (PST), "David L. Jones"

altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've finally had a gut-full of Acrobat reader, it just goes from bad
to worse. It used to be excellent but now I can't stand it. Damn thing
locks up all the time (esp when shutting down Windows) and generally
screws things up. And the browser plug-in is borderline useless, which
makes viewing 50 datasheets a day a real pain.

What are the alternatives people are using?

Note, I'm talking about a PDF *viewer*, not a PDF creator.

Thanks
Dave.

I use Foxit to view pdf's and CutePDF to make them. Both are
blindingly fast compared to the Adobe bloatware, and neither seems to
have problems.

I don't use Foxit as a plugin, but as an external application
launcher.

John

Speaking of "bloat"....,

It's pretty interesting that when you save as type PDF from other
Adobe Products (like Illustrator-10, or even PhotoShop Elements 4),
the file sizes are absolutely HUGE. Tens of megabytes sometimes! And
the same exact PDF created with one of those PDF print drivers?:
800k.

-mpm

Yeah. And CutePDF is so fast that at first I thought it was broken,
and not doing anything.

John

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:16:41 +0000, invalid@example.com wrote:

qrk wrote:

Foxit Reader for viewing. While not perfect, I used it 100% for
looking at data sheets. Comes up fast and works well.

And what happens when you try to save that data sheet to your hard disk?

It saves it to my hard disk. Fast.

John

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> hath wroth:

Works fine for me. That's the only way I save pdf's downloaded by
Firefox.
John

Well, there's another way to save from a web page in Firefox. I use
the PDFDownload plugin:
<http://www.pdfdownload.org>
<http://www.pdfdownload.org/screenshots.php>
When you click on a PDF, it asks what you want to do with it. It's
MUCH faster than waiting for Acrobat to start, display, and then
decide to save it.


--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:33:36 -0800) it happened Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in <dvbuj3pg0is3p9669g40siefa3eomk9btp@4ax.com>:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> hath wroth:

Works fine for me. That's the only way I save pdf's downloaded by
Firefox.
John

Well, there's another way to save from a web page in Firefox. I use
the PDFDownload plugin:
http://www.pdfdownload.org
http://www.pdfdownload.org/screenshots.php
When you click on a PDF, it asks what you want to do with it. It's
MUCH faster than waiting for Acrobat to start, display, and then
decide to save it.

I just installed that, it works on normal links.pdf,
but if fails on javascipt like links like these:
http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/B/C/5/4/BC548.shtml

 

[qrk]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:16:41 +0000, invalid@example.com wrote:

qrk wrote:

Foxit Reader for viewing. While not perfect, I used it 100% for
looking at data sheets. Comes up fast and works well.

And what happens when you try to save that data sheet to your hard disk?

Works perfectly fine. In fact, a bit quicker since it remembers which
directory you last saved the previous PDF.

---
Mark

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:33:36 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> hath wroth:

Works fine for me. That's the only way I save pdf's downloaded by
Firefox.
John

Well, there's another way to save from a web page in Firefox. I use
the PDFDownload plugin:
http://www.pdfdownload.org
http://www.pdfdownload.org/screenshots.php
When you click on a PDF, it asks what you want to do with it. It's
MUCH faster than waiting for Acrobat to start, display, and then
decide to save it.

I could right-click and save the file, but it's just as fast to let
the download dialog box pop up, click the default "open with Foxit",
see and admire the file first (which, unlike Adobebloat, is instant),
and save it from there. If I don't like the part, for example, I may
decide to not save the pdf file.

How is that thing any better than the regular Firefox download dialog
box?

John

 

[john jardine]

<invalid@example.com> wrote in message
news:6N6dnV3-XfBNUKPa4p2dnAA@giganews.com...

john jardine wrote:

'Foxit'. From a recommend on this group. Use nothing else. Leagues faster
than the poxy Adobe offering. About 0.3 seconds from click to view.

Ever try saving a PDF to your hard disk?

From Foxit, I've literally saved thousands. No problem.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:08:14 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:

On a sunny day (Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:33:36 -0800) it happened Jeff Liebermann
jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in <dvbuj3pg0is3p9669g40siefa3eomk9btp@4ax.com>:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> hath wroth:

Works fine for me. That's the only way I save pdf's downloaded by
Firefox.
John

Well, there's another way to save from a web page in Firefox. I use
the PDFDownload plugin:
http://www.pdfdownload.org
http://www.pdfdownload.org/screenshots.php
When you click on a PDF, it asks what you want to do with it. It's
MUCH faster than waiting for Acrobat to start, display, and then
decide to save it.

I just installed that, it works on normal links.pdf,
but if fails on javascipt like links like these:
http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/B/C/5/4/BC548.shtml

Yup, I can't right-click from Firefox and save that. It does open,
pretty much instantly, using Foxit, and I can save the file from
there.


John

 

Martin Griffith wrote:

Ever try saving a PDF to your hard disk?

with foxit, every day, no probs, have you a problem with saving to
disc?

Paid version, right? Adobe Acrobat Reader sux, but the free
version of AAR saves to disk without modifying the PDF first
The free version of Foxit doesn't.

 

David L. Jones wrote:

Until you try saving the PDF you are reading to your hard drive...

No, it works just fine in Foxit, thanks.

Paid version, right? Adobe Acrobat Reader sux, but at least
the free version of AR saves to disk without modifying the PDF.
The free version of Foxit doesn't.