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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Date added: November 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 3,623,367
- Downloads last week: 232,656
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 769 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:
The latest release fixed the issue in Foxit Reader 3.1.2.1013, where the text in PDF documents could not be printed with specific printers.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 769 votes
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.3.1030
Pros: Easy to use and friendly. Also allows to fill pdf forms and mail them...and edit a pdf file
Cons: Seems without any major flow
Summary: Great....and bye-bye Adobe Reader
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.3.1030
"light weight and full featured PDF reader"
Pros: light weight
good annotation abilitiesCons: checks for updates in the middle of reading a document
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.3.1030
"I had an earlier version and liked it very much"
Pros: I deleted the old version and downloaded new rather than update the old again.
Cons: I haven't found anything to dislike
Summary: It is user friendly and I can open all my documents with it
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.3.1030
"Fast, efficient and free. What else can you say?"
Pros: Best free software I have ever used.
Cons: No cons for this program.
Summary: This product is easy to navigate in and has great features for editing and such.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.3.1030
Pros: I pretty much just view PDF files I have scanned from hard copy documents. Foxit is much faster than Adobe and does all I need done
Cons: It doesn't make my cell phone bill any lower. (I was going to leave this section blank, but the program won't let me)
Summary: Does what I want, and does it well.
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