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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 17, 2005
- Total Downloads: 1,494,521
- Downloads last week: 12,322
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 815 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
To put it gently, Adobe Reader is a real pain in the hindquarters.
It's monstrously large, slow to load, and includes many features most users will hardly ever need. Foxit PDF Reader 2.0 omits these widgets and throws in some neat features, such as annotation tools, while still allowing you to read PDF documents.
The interface mimics Adobe's, so you won't have to change your reading habits. In our test, the text readability wasn't much inferior to Acrobat's. The 1.6MB program starts surprisingly fast compared to Acrobat. You might need to fiddle a bit to get it to work with your Internet browser, but you can find help on Foxit's support forums. It's a nice touch that it opens PDFs from the Internet in their own Foxit window, instead of sucking resources from within the browser.
Foxit's biggest flaw in the old version was hogging memory and that has been corrected. We did find it incredibly irritating that URL hyperlinks were unclickable, and that some features were secretly blocked in the evaluation copy.
Publisher's description
From Foxit Software :Foxit PDF Reader is an alternative viewer/reader for PDF documents. Foxit PDF Reader is less than 1MB to download and doesn't need lengthy installation (just download, unzip, and run). It works with all types of PDF documents you might have, with high display quality. Supports different languages including most Asian languages. You can zoom in/zoom out or rotate page display, copy text information to other application, search text in PDF document, and print PDF documents. Version 1.2 build 0115 includes text search capability.
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User reviews of Foxit PDF Reader 1.2 build 0115
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 815 votes
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Foxit PDF Reader 1.2 build 0115
"Watch Out With This Program!!!"
Pros: Smaller file than Adobe reader.
Cons: When this program is installed, it also installs a key logger program that runs at start up.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Foxit PDF Reader 1.2 build 0115
Pros: No installation reqd, I had this downloaded and running in moments. Uncluttered, simple and convenient. After all, I only need it for viewing PDFs, so Acrobat and friends take note
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Version: Foxit PDF Reader 1.2 build 0115
Pros: Tiny program, compared to the newer Acrobat Reader downloads this is nothing! And it starts in no-time compared to AR.
Cons: I've had some problems searching, but this is apparently fixed in the newest distro.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Foxit PDF Reader 1.2 build 0115
Summary: Outstanding PDF viewer. Used this when Adobe Acrobat failed on me one too many times. The only feature they could improve is a better find function.
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Version: Foxit PDF Reader 1.2 build 0115
"I am much happier with this over adobe acrobat reader 5., 6., or 7. Great download!"
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