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graycat SF Mod
Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 16777195 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: Adobe Acrobat Alternatives |
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well after suffering through creating new Adobe Reader deployment packages, I'm seriously looking at moving the company to other offerings. I mean, a pdf reader application that is 204Mb?! come on, seriously now
So what are people using out there instead of Adobe?
I've been looking at FoxIt Reader which is free, only 6.5Mb installed and much quicker. Any others you can recommend?
Also, can anyone recommend a PDF creator other than Adobe Acrobat? That thing is huge, slow, prone to issues and we're unable to deploy it as each licence has a different key!!
[rant over]
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Fire Ant Trusted SF Member
Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Posts: 3 Location: London
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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graycat,
Maybe you should remove all your Windows computers and replace with Mac. They may be twice the price but you get a PDF writer with the OS and you get the fantastic Viewer app to view them in. Woohoo!
Years ago I remember Jaws PDF being quite good. They were always on the PC Pro CD and half decent to boot...oh yeah and free. Haven't used it in a few years though, not since I went over to the dark side.
Matt_s
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graycat SF Mod
Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 16777195 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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matt_s wrote: |
Maybe you should remove all your Windows computers and replace with Mac. They may be twice the price but you get a PDF writer with the OS and you get the fantastic Viewer app to view them in. Woohoo! |
yeah, yeah, yeah. tell me something I don't know!
matt_s wrote: |
Years ago I remember Jaws PDF being quite good. They were always on the PC Pro CD and half decent to boot...oh yeah and free. Haven't used it in a few years though, not since I went over to the dark side. |
cheers, will have a look at that one....... mac-boy lol
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Tom Bair SF Boss
Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 16776955 Location: Portland, Oregon USA
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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No personal experience, mind you ... but I thought Star Reader was capable of displaying PDF files?
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capi SF Senior Mod
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 16777097 Location: Portugal
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Alternatives |
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graycat wrote: |
So what are people using out there instead of Adobe? |
KPDF works fine for me... (you're not restricted to Windows, are you? )
graycat wrote: |
Also, can anyone recommend a PDF creator other than Adobe Acrobat? That thing is huge, slow, prone to issues and we're unable to deploy it as each licence has a different key!! |
Sure... LaTeX is all you need
Or if you want to create PDFs from documents developed in WYSIWYG applications for some reason, then Openoffice.org has a nice "export to PDF" feature.
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AdamV SF Mod
Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Leeds, UK
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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read why I’m using Foxit reader for Acrobat PDF files
In that article I also mention I use FreePDF for creating PDF files (usual ghostscript virtual printer method so it works from almost any app).
Using Office 2007 you can get a free plugin so you can do Save As PDF, which is great for all those things like hyperlinks, but is rubbish for some things like pictures with soft edges in PowerPoint (unless you like fuzzy grey borders round everything in your PDF).
FreePDF is light and fast, you can choose how small to make the end result.
In terms of file size output I generally found FreePDF to be smaller than Office 2007 add on, but occasionally it is the other way round by a large margin. No logic that I can find.
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D1g1t Just Arrived
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:46 am Post subject: |
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I also use FoxIt for a couple of years and feel very happy with it.
But i've read somewahere that it's unable to read some advanced specific PDF's, like ones with animation oк something like that. But, honestly, i have never come across such problems, i think for 99.9% of PDF's it works just fine. (for me - 100% so far)
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