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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 24, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,616,892
- Downloads last week: 10,247
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 774 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 17, 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 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 3.6 MB 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. 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. The biggest change in this version is a collaborative tool called OnDemand. It requires free registration, but allows users to share and edit PDFs from within the Foxit interface. Overall, unless you're tied to Adobe we strongly recommend this freeware competitor.
Publisher's description
From Foxit Software :As a small and fast PDF viewer, Foxit Reader currently has over 50 million users all around the world. After keeping users waiting for almost two months, Foxit Reader 3.0 has been released and introduces many fascinating new features such as multimedia design and Foxit OnDemand Content Management.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0 includes integrated multimedia design, an attachment panel, a thumbnail panel, metric support, auto-scrolling with the center mouse button, and plug-ins for Firefox and content-sharing.
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