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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2000 SP 4
- Date added: August 03, 2010
- Total Downloads: 51,182,264
- Downloads last week: 97,584
- Product Ranking: #1 in Document Management Software
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1089 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 18, 2008
The new version of this indispensable product doesn't introduce revolutionary changes, but it doesn't have to. As the low-end PDF reader, it simply keeps up with Acrobat Professional and Standard. This release adds the ability to play back embedded multimedia files in MP3, QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, Real, and Windows Media formats, as well as to submit Adobe PDF forms. It also replaces some of the icons in the default interface with optional, dockable toolbars. You might as well install this now before a Web site you visit prompts you to download it, because you'll need it.
Publisher's description
From Adobe Systems:Adobe Reader lets you read and print from any system any document created as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file, with its original appearance preserved. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as the author intended by anyone with Adobe Reader.
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User reviews
- All versions: 3.1 starsout of 1089 votes
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- Current version: 2.7 starsout of 12 votes
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1 stars
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"Usage issues and problems again"
Pros: OK so its a slight change
Cons: kills off familiar icons and structures
Summary: Every adobe update seems to need refreshing and undoes something I have gotten used to using. I am reluctant to update for that reason. Its not worth such small enhancements when they make familiar usage unrecognizable. Change for change sake isn't good change.
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1 stars
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"Likely to crash your system. Avoid."
Pros: Who knows? Install fails and bombs out having messed about with your system.
Cons: The marketing people appear to have got their way with this one - non-standard download and lots of flashy gizmos during download which then fails to complete.
Adobe AIR a mandatory part of download; Installs various 'services'.... Avoid.Summary: A buggy marketeerikng piece of junk which clogs up your system and bears little resemblanced to the reader you might have expected to download - if indeed it manages to download at all. Does not use the standard 'file download' process that all other apps use but it's own flashy advertising gizmo which is a pain. Installs services which then execute who knows what;
Worth reading the user reviews bewfore you download.
My advice: Stick with version 8. -
5 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"all adobe products that i have used do what' on the tin"
Pros: The thing hat i like about this product is that it dos what it is supposed to do and causes no problems
Cons: there are no cons
Summary: not a lot to say except that the product works and works well
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1 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"getting nowhere with this download - 4th time lucky?"
Pros: free.
adobe is widely used on websites for organisationsCons: downloaded this 3 times, each time I was unable to complete the registration form, then it crashed my netbook
Summary: how can I say...?
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1 stars
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"Yet another failed Adobe Installer... DLM NOT Wanted!!!"
Pros: Decent reader otherwise not impressed at all!
Cons: The idiotic Download Manager is REQUIRED to install Adobe Reader... Not impressed. I don't NEED or WANT yet another download manager to install ANY software. Drop the McAfee installer with it too! Geez!
Summary: I have written software for over 32 years. It simply isn't necessary to require a Download Manager to install a piece of software.
I don't like someone installing a Download Manager... Period.
Please just give us the ability to have a NON-Download Manager Version.
Adobe does some pretty nice stuff overall... but the Download Manager part frankly pisses me off every time.
I'm about ready just to DUMP all versions of EVERYTHING related to Adobe UNTIL they drop their infatuation with the unwanted and unnecessary Download Manager!
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1 stars
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"Adobe Reader's gem, when it works. Bearcat to fix."
Pros: Everybody uses Adobe Reader. Is it because it is so good; or, ?
Cons: More than a few users of Adobe Reader have had issues with.
Summary: Adobe reader, when it works is a gem. When it fails to work, it is a bearcat to fix! As an alternative, I recommend FoxIt Reader, as a temp fix, or permanent replacement, if you finally give up on Adobe.
In fall of 2010, with Window 7 and a 64 bit machine, I had difficulty with an Adobe "automajic" update that required over four hours of system management to fix. Adobe's own web site reflect similar problems others have had ( http://forums.adobe.com/message/3046103 ). To uninstall Adobe Reader I used NoBeReader; and, with advice from Adobe (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408441.html ) had to jump through 25 hoops/steps to gain administrative authority, to remove an Adobe CMAP file. OUCH!
With limited sophistication, I expect many Adobe Reader users will give up on Adobe Reader's transparency when they hit the brick wall of Adobe's lack of transparency.
GOOD LUCK Adobe.
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3 stars
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"Useful, but not great."
Pros: Useful if it is used only to read articles and other stuffs.
Simple and easy to use.Cons: If you need a PDF reader to do searches, reading many documents and references, this is not what you want. You'll need something like Foxit or NItro, with which you can highlight texts or make notes.
Summary: I'm using it because I'm used to for many years. But it isn't the best if you want anything more than just reading. I recommend Foxit.
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5 stars
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"good product"
Pros: its sufficent
Cons: not sure...
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5 stars
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"Dependable, if a little slow and clunky"
Pros: Never a problem; always opens
Cons: slow download
Summary: useful product
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4 stars
Version: Adobe Reader 9.3.3
"it has never been a problem"
Pros: I don't really use it all that much but seems to work well.
Cons: I like it when I need it
Summary: works fine
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