Adobe Reader 8 released

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:24 am

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

From what I tried, they changed a lot of the interface. I think they even decreased the loading speed even more.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:32 am

Please don't use such trash. Use Foxit and forget about bloated software.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:49 am

Deathlike2 wrote:Please don't use such trash. Use Foxit and forget about bloated software.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

I discovered Foxit shortly after upgrading to Adobe Reader 8. Every new version (of Reader) seems to have lower performance. Reader 8 especially seems "unresponsive" (clicking around in the menus).

The Foxit software though, it very much appears to be some modified version of official Adobe software.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:03 am

Jipcy wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:Please don't use such trash. Use Foxit and forget about bloated software.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
I discovered Foxit shortly after upgrading to Adobe Reader 8. Every new version (of Reader) seems to have lower performance. Reader 8 especially seems "unresponsive" (clicking around in the menus).

The Foxit software though, it very much appears to be some modified version of official Adobe software.

I can already tell you right now that 90+% of the PDFs out there will not uses the fancy junk they bloated their software with. At some point, Adobe's gotta figure out their software is next to total junk.

I think the Foxit PDF software attempts to keep the familiarity of Adobe's software intentionally.. which helps a lot. Seriously, they haven't thought about KISS.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:30 am

adobe reader 8 loads lots faster but it seems to fail at loading the whole document... i cant scroll more then 2 pages of the tweakguidscompanion.pdf

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:36 am

franpa wrote:adobe reader 8 loads lots faster but it seems to fail at loading the whole document... i cant scroll more then 2 pages of the tweakguidscompanion.pdf

Were you trying to load the PDF in a browser? That tends to fail quite a bit with huge PDF files.

Demios · Post by **Demios** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:51 am

did someone say real player?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:01 am

no it wasn't within a browser... i also fiddled with the option to use page cache but it had no effect... i got 2 gigs of ram -.-' it should just load and render everything all the time...

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:17 pm

While I don't dispute Adobe Reader is pretty crappy, I can say this:

Version 6.0 was a steaming pile of crap. The worst in the history.
Version 7.0 was actually MUCH better. I was impressed they seemed to make a serious effort for improvement, although still crap in the end.

If Version 8 is better than 7, they are going in the right direction at least.

I suppose feature bloat is their biggest problem at the moment. The download size is unbelievable.

One simple idea is make some sort of basic function lite reader. I mean I think that's what the software really was in the beginning like Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:58 pm

I hate that Foxit reader doesn't support forms within pdfs, which are the majority at my workplace.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:43 pm

I just use Adobe Reader and delete all the startup stuff. Version 8 has a 2D acceleration option in the preferences which makes the documents scroll faster/smoother. Sometimes I have to read over 25 pdfs a day so I need a compatible PDF reader installed.