Foxit Reader

[bobdole369]

We have and print and access a LOT of pdf's. I recently changed a lot of client PC's (mostly the ones of users who wouldn't know any better) - to use foxit Reader as its much more lightweight than adobe reader.

Wow I'm supporting these folks much more heavily now. It seems foxit has a HUGE problem when printing. I can view it just fine, but I'm damn sick and tired of it not able to print OK. I keep getting printouts of error messages instead of documents.

Any thoughts, other than the obvious one - lose foxit reader or fix the printer driver?

(It's always on an HP 5si - we have a ton of those printers)

 

[rivan]

Does Foxit have a 'print as image' option in the print dialog? If so, give that a shot.

I'd suspect a hangup between Foxit and any PCL printer. Those printers are built like tanks, but PCL sucks.

 

[MrChad]

I'm baffled as to why you would switch software for a key business function without testing it thoroughly. This is why I stick with Adobe Reader: maximum compatibility.

 

[slackwarelinux]

foxit tends to freeze up when printing for me. I've only tested it on an HP laserjet 4200n.

 

[Stiganator]

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[bobdole369]

"why you would switch software for a key business function without testing it thoroughly."

Quite simply - users did it themselves at first. We are an informal company, and I'm no admin-nazi. If it works so be it. And initially during my test phase with Foxit - I never had trouble printing. I think as the versions get updated - the printing error appeared. That or maybe it happened when I last changed the printer driver.

 

[Jeff7]

What error does it show? I don't think I've ever had any problems with FoxIt. I just don't like that the program is getting larger and larger now. They're falling into the trap of trying to make it do everything; now it's also a multimedia player. And it keeps getting bigger and bigger. Now the EXE file is over 7MB; I remember when it almost fit on a single floppy disk.

v3.0 is out now, maybe give that a shot.

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: bobdole369
"why you would switch software for a key business function without testing it thoroughly."

Quite simply - users did it themselves at first. We are an informal company, and I'm no admin-nazi. If it works so be it. And initially during my test phase with Foxit - I never had trouble printing. I think as the versions get updated - the printing error appeared. That or maybe it happened when I last changed the printer driver.

This is why you should be an admin nazi. Personally I have had printer issues with foxit, and is why I keep both adobe and foxit on my machine.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

We use Foxit because Adobe has horrendous problems printing to HP printers. Other than that, we'd probably never use it.

 

[newb111]

Never had any issues printing with Foxit myself, on any of my 5 machines to any of the 6-7 printers I use.