Windows XP -- built in PDF viewer

[Submit]

I seem to remember one of the early beta versions of Windows XP had a built in pdf viewer...

Can anyone confim this? Any place I can download it?

TIA

 

[Nothinman]

I doubt it. Acrobat reader hooks into multiple things when installed, so maybe you're mistaking that for MS including it?

 

[Submit]

Actually I am pretty sure one of the betas of XP was able to open PDF files...

 

[Nothinman]

MS betas are known to fluxuate heavily, you can't trust anything in them to be in the final until RC1 hits.

 

[IamDavid]

Your right, one of the earlier beta version did include one.. Not sure of the exact build but it as an early one... I thought it was a nice extra..

 

[crisp82]

I have an RC1 version of XP. Pretty sure its now in there at all. Would be a nice feature though, like the built in file extractor

 

[Submit]

IamDavid


You don't remember which beta it was?

 

[kursplat]

Your right, one of the earlier beta version did include one.. Not sure of the exact build but it as an early one... I thought it was a nice extra

well sure extras are nice...until the goverment tells you not to include free stuff because it stiffles competion
yes , i like I.E. and i'm not ashamed to admit it.......

 

[Nothinman]

Why not email Adobe and ask them to make a similar explorer extension?

 

[crisp82]

not an Adobe fan huh?

 

[Submit]

I don't have anything Adobe. It's just that from what I remember, using the built in viewer, the files would open up much quicker...

 

[crisp82]

Yeah, they probably would. Do you have a beta copy of XP?

 

[Submit]

The problem is, I have many copies of XP betas...

 

[Nothinman]

Why does it even matter? You would run a beta copy of XP for 1 little thing like that?

 

[Submit]

You are right, I wouldn't run a beta version. But I would try to copy the program over... files, registry keys...(don't ask why

 

[johnlog]

>well sure extras are nice...until the goverment tells you not to include free stuff because it stiffles competion
yes , i like I.E. and i'm not ashamed to admit it....... <<<

I also favor IE6 over Netscape and those others that are available for downloading. What do I like about IE6? It works as it is suppose to. All the web pages I visit look how they are suppose to.

Don't wanna name other browser's names because that always causes a few to come back with nasty comments.

I used Netscape for nearly four years. Then I discovered IE 4 and Netscape disappeared into computer heaven (hell?).

I consider IE and Netscape the best of the browsers.

 

[crisp82]

Just find the beta that the pdf viewer is in an you're set.

 

[johnlog]

I have Acrobat Distiller 5x and fully recommend it to everyone. The best ever Acrobat released so far.

 

[Nothinman]

Distiller is only necessary for creating PDFs. Which can also be done with free utils, very easily on Linux and semi-easily on Windows.