Lightweight PDF reader?

[NogginBoink]

Acrobat Reader 6 is a bloated pig.

Anyone have any experience with a lightweight pdf reader that they can recommend to me?

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Acrobat Reader 6 is a bloated pig.

Anyone have any experience with a lightweight pdf reader that they can recommend to me?

Acrobat 3, 4, or 5?

V6 is a pig, and what's with the recomposing crap taking 20mins to install --- argh.

That said, so far it seems stable for me. 3/4/5 always seemed to have browser lockup issues for viewing online stuff. Got to the point where I always did save-as instead of viewing online and hated when I accidentally opened one in the browser.

 

[Modeps]

I'd love an independant reader.... everytime I load acrobat reader it takes forever and eats up my memory.

 

[vi edit]

I've got a 4.0 install if you want it. It's a tiny install. Just short of 7 megs in the install directory. Only uses up about 13 meg of RAM when actually running. (Small page counts anyway).

 

[Bassyhead]

why is acrobat reader so large in size? the basic (smaller) download on their site is like 8.8 MB, which will take a long time for 56kers

 

[Electrode]

I use XPDF. Loads instantly.

 

[Schadenfroh]

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[Savarak]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
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Whoa! Thanks a ton for that link! It loaded some pdfs in a mere second on my 1900+, compared to ~15 seconds pre-"liposuction"

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Electrode
I use <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf">XPDF</a>. Loads instantly.

how do you get that to work? what to download?

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: Savarak

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
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Whoa! Thanks a ton for that link! It loaded some pdfs in a mere second on my 1900+, compared to ~15 seconds pre-"liposuction"

very nice!