PDF viewer?

[CSMR]

Any good options for pdf viewing?
I've tried:

Adobe Reader:
-keeps asking to update, requiring administrator access
-runs processes on startup
-can't add notes to pdfs

Foxit:
-bad font rendering (no cleartype)

Font rendering is important so I'd choose Adobe Reader but is there a good alternative to these two?

Thanks.

 

[lxskllr]

You could try PDF-Xchange
http://www.docu-track.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

Or Sumatra
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

I don't know if they'll meet your needs or not, but it's free to try. I use Foxit.

 

[CSMR]

Thanks, but neither of those viewers use cleartype. [rant]It's like going back 11 years! It's not as if it takes any programming effort to use cleartype![/rant]

Back to Adobe Reader I guess.

 

[dderolph]

Isn't cleartype controlled by Windows, not by specific applications, such as PDF Viewer? In other words, it's a global feature, not app-specific.

 

[CSMR]

Yes it should be, but these apps are apparently rendering the text themselves, sending an image rather than text to Windows, and making a mess of it.