Adobe Acrobat RANT!!

[daveza]

Foxit is 2.6 Mb

Acrobat reader is 35 Mb

and they do the same thing...

 

[AirWolf]

Foxit is 2.6 Mb

Acrobat reader is 35 Mb

and they do the same thing...

I have Foxit on a few pcs at work. The quality of the display is not the same though.

 

[Arthur]

I have Foxit on a few pcs at work. The quality of the display is not the same though.

Install the (small) GDI+ Module, JPEG2000/JBIG Decoder and Javascript add-ins from the Foxit website and display quality improves substantially.

 

[AirWolf]

Install the (small) GDI+ Module, JPEG2000/JBIG Decoder and Javascript add-ins from the Foxit website and display quality improves substantially.

Why did they not just include it in the main installation file - it would still come in under 5MB?

 

[Arthur]

Why did they not just include it in the main installation file - it would still come in under 5MB?

Not all systems need 'em, so I s'pose it makes sense to minimise bloat. After all, the main reason people ditch Acrobat Reader is because it's highly blubberised.