The Best PDF Reader
Adobe Reader 8.0 (Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile)
Adobe Reader 8.0 uses a downloader/installer program that is about 500KB. I'm not sure what the advantage to this is. To me it just seems like an extra step. Without the "album starter" addon checked Adobe Reader 8 takes up 117MB of hard drive space, 30.6MB of ram, and 30.1MB of virtual memory. Version 8 is a vast improvement over 7. The interface is much more streamlined and has way less clutter. The program load time is vastly improved. It loaded the IRS's 1040EZ form in under a second in firefox 2.0.0.3. Adobe Reader 7 used to take 5 or 6 seconds and seem to be bogged down while viewing. By default it fits PDF files to the screen and allows for continuous scrolling. It has a nice feature that allows you to view thumbnails of all the pages on a sidebar. It has a button which highlights all the fillable fields in the document. It has a reading mode that eliminates everything except the title bar and menu bar. There is also a fullscreen option that eliminates everything except the PDF document and defaults to 100% zoom with thumbnails of the pages on the right.
Foxit Reader 2.0 (Windows, Linux, Mobile)
Foxit Reader 2.0 is a lighter piece of software. It only takes up only 3.9MB of hard drive space 6.8Mb of ram and 2.2MB of virtual memory. Load times appear to be the same. The interface looks like Adobe Reader 7. It has a bookmark pane on the left that allows for jumping from page to page. It also has a button that highlights all the fillable fields, defaults to fit the PDF on the screen and defaults to continuous scrolling. It also has a fullscreen option but still retains a menubar at the top and lacks thumbnails of all the pages. It also has dynamic downloading of add-ons which helps keep the program from getting bloated with options you don't need.
Conclusion
I have always been a fan of adobe products. Their only problem is load time. Photo Shop CS2 takes a while to load as does most of the programs in the CS2 suite. I think that adobe responded very well to smaller faster competitors. I would compare Adobe Reader 7 and 8 to Windows 98 and Windows XP. As long as you have a decent amount of system memory and hard drive space I would use Adobe Reader 8 King.
Winner: Adobe Reader 8
Adobe Reader 8.0 uses a downloader/installer program that is about 500KB. I'm not sure what the advantage to this is. To me it just seems like an extra step. Without the "album starter" addon checked Adobe Reader 8 takes up 117MB of hard drive space, 30.6MB of ram, and 30.1MB of virtual memory. Version 8 is a vast improvement over 7. The interface is much more streamlined and has way less clutter. The program load time is vastly improved. It loaded the IRS's 1040EZ form in under a second in firefox 2.0.0.3. Adobe Reader 7 used to take 5 or 6 seconds and seem to be bogged down while viewing. By default it fits PDF files to the screen and allows for continuous scrolling. It has a nice feature that allows you to view thumbnails of all the pages on a sidebar. It has a button which highlights all the fillable fields in the document. It has a reading mode that eliminates everything except the title bar and menu bar. There is also a fullscreen option that eliminates everything except the PDF document and defaults to 100% zoom with thumbnails of the pages on the right.
Foxit Reader 2.0 (Windows, Linux, Mobile)
Foxit Reader 2.0 is a lighter piece of software. It only takes up only 3.9MB of hard drive space 6.8Mb of ram and 2.2MB of virtual memory. Load times appear to be the same. The interface looks like Adobe Reader 7. It has a bookmark pane on the left that allows for jumping from page to page. It also has a button that highlights all the fillable fields, defaults to fit the PDF on the screen and defaults to continuous scrolling. It also has a fullscreen option but still retains a menubar at the top and lacks thumbnails of all the pages. It also has dynamic downloading of add-ons which helps keep the program from getting bloated with options you don't need.
Conclusion
I have always been a fan of adobe products. Their only problem is load time. Photo Shop CS2 takes a while to load as does most of the programs in the CS2 suite. I think that adobe responded very well to smaller faster competitors. I would compare Adobe Reader 7 and 8 to Windows 98 and Windows XP. As long as you have a decent amount of system memory and hard drive space I would use Adobe Reader 8 King.
Winner: Adobe Reader 8
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