PDFViewer for Mac

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• Dynamic updating

  VictorFromTNJune 6, 2009

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is the first pdf viewer that I found that will update its view of a document automatically if I regenerate it. Unfortunately, it doesn't remember that setting, though it does remember other facts about the document, so if I start a new session of editing, I have to tell PDFViewer that "Auto": update your display whenever the document changes. Other than that, lovely app. Does all it needs to, and none of the superfluous crap that bogs down the Adobe viewer.

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• Thanks for a fast free alternative to Preview!

  moofsterOctober 13, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have been looking for a program like this for a *long* time. Apple never got their act together with their "Preview" application - it sucks. Takes way too long to open files, trys to make previews of every page in the file (no way to turn this off by default, you have to close the drawer EVERY TIME), and it never opens things to a reasonable size by default, so you always have to resize. Adobe Acrobat reader works fine once you have it open, but it's kind of a beast - large and takes a long time to launch. PDFViewer 1.4 is much nicer. ;-) It opens things to a nice viewing size by default, doensn't waste time creating previews, and is damn fast. My only suggestion so far would be to allow the user to click and drag the on the image like you can do with most other PDF viewers. Thanks for writing such a nice simple application which really serves a need of the Mac community.

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• Much smaller than Acrobat, but...

  tobodi--2008September 28, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />...this is a very "lite" alternative to the Adobe product and Apple's Preview. I recommend it for previewing small PDF files, but if you are doing professional work or viewing multipage files, then I use Preview or, better yet, Acrobat Reader 5. The text rendering in PDFViewer isn't as nice as in Acrobat, but if previewing a file quickly is the issue, then looks don't really matter. Now if only Apple could provide better Help for and/or keyboard shortcuts for

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• Now my default PDF viewer

  sinclair44September 27, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Just as it says: light, quick, small PDF viewer. Much faster than Preview, and **MUCH** less bulky than Adobe Reader. Not the most feature-rich app, but I don't need a PDF viewer that checks my email... it has everything that's needed; nothing more, nothing less.

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• Great little freebie

  acme-pixelSeptember 11, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Adobe acrobat never works in Safari, this little gem does. For all those whiners and complainers; use Acrobat it's free too! This is a great solution for when Acrobat is too much trouble or, as in the case of Safari, doesn't work. Acrobat 6 is over 60 megs and takes a while to load. This little app is clean and does the job nicely.

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• Works quite OK for me...

  Durandal v1.1bJune 25, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />For the ones saying that this makes bad rendering or is slow, I'd love to see which reader are they using. I've had lots of problems with Acrobat eating math symbols in one version and working just fine in a previous version! This has worked OK for me until now. And is much faster than Acrobat (I'm using a 400MHz G3) This scrolls perfectly fast (and with mouse wheel too!) and zooms OK. Only problem: you can't search or select/copy/save. You just can read. But that's OK for me 75% of the time... so being really fast to launch and open PDFs and still being free, it's almost perfect.

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• Horrid text rendering

  Doctor JJune 17, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I opened a PDF file (a "Science" article with text and graphics) with PDFViewer, Preview, and Adobe Reader. PDFViewer's text and graphics were both really crappy compared with the two other viewers. <P> It *IS* faster, but I spend most of my time reading, not paging. Besides, both Adobe Reader and Preview have page thumbnails, making navigation much more convenient. <P> Zoom control is primitive. One cannot choose the magnification, and there is no "Zoom to fill window" option.

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• Greeaaat! Default-App for PDFs - no other choice!

  the little tomfruJune 17, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great App, now in version 1.1 the setting of the default for PDFs now works (little bit tricky: you have to delete the preference com.apple.LaunchServices.plist in your users library folder) - this app lets my smiling get wider - its definitely the fastest PDF viewer tool ever - Thanks a lot!!

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• Very nice!

  TripleF3000June 4, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The new interface without the borders just looks sooo much better, it now feels like a really good Mac OS X citizen. :) Thank you!

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• really FAST!!!

  endeJune 4, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />i like it very much. especially the auto-zoom (on window resize) function. needs key-shortcuts at least for "next page" / "prev page".

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