Re: Replace Adobe Reader?

Eric wrote:


"Paul Johnson" <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

Walter R. wrote:

The Adobe reader has become a monstrous program of about 100 MB. I
hate to clutter up my disk with all this bloat.

I don't think that's monstrous at all. To put things in perspective,
that 100MB that you call "all this bloat" is about ten US cents worth of
disk space or less. 100MB used to be a lot of disk space. Today it's
next to nothing.

Still, why waste space on deadweight if you don't have to? That's like
saying spamvertising is a good advertising model because you offload the
entire cost of advertising onto the recipient.

You're right. Software should not use more disk space just because it's
cheap and most users have plenty to spare.
What version Adobe Reader are you running?

I'm not. I use kpdf, which is free and not-bloated. It's part of the
kdegraphics package, which includes a lot more software than just kdpf, and
comes in at about 7MB for the whole package. http://kpdf.kde.org/

Version 6 was very slow, and appears to be the newest version for WinME.
Version 7.0.7 is fast enough, requires XP, and takes up 65.09MB space on
my PC according to the Add/Remove program window.
There's a version 8? I haven't seen it yet..

My first hard drive was 40MB. I may have had an even smaller one before
that..

Are there any good, free, generic replacements for the Adobe Reader?

Although I've never used it myself, many people like Foxit reader.

It's not free nor generic, though.

What do you mean? Last I downloaded Foxit, it was free and generic and
tiny.

Foxit is not free, foxit is proprietary. Foxit is not generic because it is
a name brand itself. Granted, I didn't look very hard, and you're welcome
to prove me wrong, but it helps to know what free means in terms of
software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software


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