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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: August 23, 2009
- Total Downloads: 3,417,217
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 807 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. Foxit Reader supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. 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. Moreover, if you want to annotate a PDF document, you have to pay US$299 to buy certain software.
As a small and fast PDF viewer, Foxit Reader currently has over 50 million users all around the world.
Version 3.1 supports internet keyword search and allows users to generate a new PDF document with comments summary and set the document properties.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.1 supports internet keyword search and allows users to generate a new PDF document with comments summary and set the document properties.
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User reviews of Foxit Reader 3.1 build 0824
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 807 votes
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1 build 0824
Pros: works flawlessly
Cons: can't think of any
Summary: love it
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1 build 0824
Pros: excellent, works everytime
Cons: none to date
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1 build 0824
Pros: requires less memory than adobe reader, yet works better
Cons: the limited accessories
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Foxit Reader 3.1 build 0824
Pros: You won't miss Adobe
Cons: It tries to connect for updates
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Foxit Reader 3.1 build 0824
Pros: Used it for years and found it did just what I needed to do.
Cons: Although I told it not too, it installed ask.com toolbar. Took forever to remove and it nagged every minute or so.
Summary: I loved this program, but I can't put up with the problems Ask.com and it's toolbar caused.
Back to adobe. :( - See all 5 user reviews Write review
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