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Foxit Reader: A great alternative PDF reader

Posted February 22nd, 2009. Categorized under Computers. 4 Comments

PDFs are an extremely common format for documents due to the fact that they’re so versatile. A PDF can be viewed on a large variety of platforms while still maintaining all of its formatting.

Adobe Reader is the obvious PDF reader, but Adobe products tend to be extremely slow and bloated, taking forever to open a simple PDF.

Lately, I’ve been giving Foxit Reader a try. Foxit is significantly faster and more compact than Adobe Reader, yet it still has all of the useful functionality of Adobe, and some cool ones of its own (I’m especially liking the annotation feature, where you can make comments onto a PDF file).

Foxit is definitely a great piece of software to have in college, since PDFs are used quite often by many college professors.

To download Foxit, see Foxit Software’s website.

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4 Replies to “Foxit Reader: A great alternative PDF reader”

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1. John Hunter

February 22nd, 2009 8:53 am

I agree, Foxit is superior to Adobe’s options. The amount of excellent freeware options is great for everyone.

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2. acidcloud

February 22nd, 2009 10:21 am

I’ve been using Foxit Reader for a while now and never gone back. It’s so much faster and loads pdfs at extremely faster rates.

I love it. :)

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3. Learn ASP

March 9th, 2010 11:39 am

yah, Adobe products are slow and bloated.

4. Ron from Vizio LCD TV

October 23rd, 2010 12:24 pm

Since Adobe Reader grew in size to tens of MB, I turned to using Foxit Reader. It really serves its purpose and is fast to load and view.

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