Comments on: Foxit Reader – Ultrafast free PDF Reader

By: MQ

MQ — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:54:45 +0000

Adam, Foxit PDF Reader has it’s own pdf rendering engine and will work on any pc. It is NOT a wrapper for Acrobat.

Joe, although it’s a no-install pdf reader, bear in mind that it does add several entries to the registry of your customer’s computer.
You may want to remove HKCU\Software\Foxit Software after you’re done.

I love this application!
Too bad the advertisement can only be permanently disabled by a small registry edit:
in HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\MainFrame
change all the Show****Ad_908 entries from value 1 to 0.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:57:25 +0000

I was looking around for a small no-install pdf reader. When I do service calls, I take my flash drive with me and I need to be able to read pdf’s that are on it. I hated having to install Adobe on a customer’s computer – it takes forever to install, and I don’t think it runs very fast. I’ll be using this on a regular basis for sure.

~Joe

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:15:18 +0000

Just tried it out, I think it’s very nice.
Basically it’s got no features exept for basic viewing, but loading files, scrolling, zooming, etc. is really fast (the MMC/MTASC comparision describes it pretty well).
As for the advertisment, seems you can turn it off (right click…).

thanks for the hint, regards,

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:16:17 +0000

Apparently they have their very one PDF renderer.
> Foxit provides the a simple and powerful DLL component for PDF viewing

I’ll give a try

Regards,
Philippe

By: Scott Hyndman

Scott Hyndman — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:23:52 +0000

I for one like it. Thanks!

By: David R

David R — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:38:46 +0000

What this app does that acrobat doesn’t, is open quick, and have a small filesize. Also, it lets you type anywhere onto any pdf. (which I don’t think acrobat can do normally)

“Foxit” : 1.3MB zip, just extract and run the exe, no install. Starts up quickly.

Adobe Acrobat: 19.8MB installer. Takes time to load dozens of ‘plugins’ that will never be used in 99.99% of pdfs

Both are free. Both have ads for their respective companies.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:28:59 +0000

What exactly does this application do that Adobe Acrobat does not do, besides provide free advertising for “Foxit”? Seems like a simple wrapper around the existing adobe reader library. I bet you dollars to donuts if you didnt have adobe reader pre-installed, this application would not work. Companies blow up their software in order to make it more difficult for hackers to decrypt the source. Applications that are resource intensive(“RAM-killers”) are just poorly programmed.

-Adam