why the hell are there so many updates for Adobe Acrobat READER?!?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

i swear, there's an update every 2 weeks.
you're a PDF reading program. you open pdf's and display it on my screen. that's it. functionality has been the same for me 30 fucking revisions ago.

and stop making shortcut icons on my desktop each time you update please.
i will double click the stupid fucking PDF file itself if i need to view it. there's no other reason for me to use your program so the desktop shortcut is pointless.

 

[AbsoluteParadigm]

Check out foxit as a pdf alternative.

 

[Russwinters]

Because Adobe reader often interfaces directly with your web browser, there are security breaches related to it.


For that reason they have to roll out updates often to patch up new exploits or else we will all be getting infected from reading PDFs.


Enjoy that.

 

[dighn]

too popular and too complicated

 

[vinylswing]

Acrobat is bloated.

I switch to pdf-xchange viewer.

http://www.tracker-software.com/

 

[Albatross]

It was too awesome and had to be crippled with bugs.

 

[mb]

I was surprised that the latest update actually required a reboot.

 

[ViviTheMage]

exploits??

foxit rocks.

 

[mb]

exploits??

foxit rocks.

I had to give up on foxit at work. For whatever reason it not fully compatible with PDFs that our scanner creates :\

 

[KMFJD]

What's the size of adobe reader now? 90mb's? Just checked my dir it's 200mb now....Foxit Reader is 10mb

 

[DesiPower]

and you thought MS was bad... The other day the madafaka said no restart will be needed, but after installation, sure enough... it wanted me to restart... DOUBLE-U TEA EFF???

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

ok, who can explain why they feel a need for a desktop shortcut?
and why it needs to be replaced every update?

 

[shortylickens]

The first reply has all the solutions you will ever need.

 

[rivan]

They've tried to make Acrobat everything for everyone. It supports all manner of multimedia, web integration, even 3d formats now.

Acrobat 3:

Acrobat 9 (there's still a knife in there, right?):

 

[dighn]

They've tried to make Acrobat everything for everyone. It supports all manner of multimedia, web integration, even 3d formats now.

Acrobat 3:

Acrobat 9 (there's still a knife in there, right?):

seriously wtf did they do to it.

 

[shortylickens]

OFF TOPIC:
I found Omni Page to be a useful, inexpensive alternative to Acrobat.

 

[MotF Bane]

Check out foxit as a pdf alternative.

/thread

 

[zCypher]

Foxit isn't perfect but it has served me well and is light weight. To hell with Acrobat Reader.

 

[superccs]

Ha! How about MS Office, that product is old as donkey's ears and yet still is horrible.

Maybe Adobe doesn't want to be in the pdf business anymore and is trying to force the induction of a more competent competitor.

 

[blinblue]

Wasn't a few months ago a report stated that something like 85% of all malware/virus/etc used Adobe PDF reader as the vector? And as if the horrible bloat was enough to dump it.
Seriously, get rid of it ASAP and your life will be that much better. I've been using foxit personally and it has worked out just fine for everything I've needed it for

 

[MrChad]

Their updates are typically quarterly, but there have been some serious security issues identified recently that have resulted in two out-of-cycle releases this year.

Still, there have only been 4 patches to 9.3 this year.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83708.html

 

[Krazy4Real]

Yeah, I hate how they keep replacing the desktop icon after every update.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

it is a PIECE OF SHIT application

 

[Modelworks]

What's the size of adobe reader now? 90mb's? Just checked my dir it's 200mb now....Foxit Reader is 10mb

Adobe has surpassed all other vendors at bloatware. If they updated calculator.exe it would be 60MB and require a 10MB update application, 5MB help file, and a 15MB service that must run in the background to use the application.

 

[xSauronx]

Check out foxit as a pdf alternative.

this. love foxit

what i want to know is why java needs an update very 15 minutes. holy hell, windows updates dont accrue that fast.