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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: November 26, 2009
- Total Downloads: 6,513,490
- Downloads last week: 229,589
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 970 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on December 08, 2008
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 3.0 kills the bloat and throws in some useful features, such as multimedia support and content-sharing options, while still allowing you to quickly access your PDFs.
The interface mimics Adobe's, so you won't have to change your reading habits. In our test, the text readability was similar. The small program starts surprisingly fast compared with Adobe. 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. Recent updates include fixing the hyperlink problem, multimedia support, printing highlighted-only sections, and tabbed PDF browsing, so you can read multiple PDFs simultaneously and with ease. Overall, unless you're tied to Adobe we strongly recommend this freeware competitor.
Publisher's description
From Foxit Software :Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.1.4.1125 is a maintenance release.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 970 votes
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
"Works but won't save as text unless you buy Pro"
Pros: Came up much faster than Adobe.
Cons: Very busy control panel; doesn't convert PDF to text.
Summary: I downloaded it to help convert PDF to text, which is a real pain. Since that didn't work, it was worthless to me.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
Pros: This PDF reader is much easier to use than Adobe and offers easy access to tools. I love it!
Cons: Nothing I can tell ya.
Summary: Fast, easy to use , and overall awesome product.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
Pros: None that I can see
Cons: slow, and unstable on my system.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
"good reader, but only in english"
Pros: simple, easy to use
Cons: bad support of other languages
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
"Great alternative PDF reader"
Pros: Replaces Adobe PDF
Cons: Works ok,so far!
Summary: Easily read any PDF without the constant updating of Adobe products!
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