On 06/24/2010 10:58 PM, Bob Scofield wrote: > Can someone recommend a PDF reader for Windows? I need one for my business. > And I need one soon. > > I've just had an Adobe nightmare. I was reading business email (Thank God > I'm > in Linux now where I feel safe) and Kaspersky AntiVirus said Adobe 8.x was > downloading a trojan. So Kaspersky took a few minutes to deal with the > problem and kept telling me that some so-called Windows image files were not > real image files. They may have been .dll files, I'm not sure. > > When Kaspersky was done my Adobe icon could no longer load the program. So I > decided to delete the whole program and download the newest Adobe Reader, > which is 9.3. Well that automatically downloads a second program, Adobe Air, > whatever that is. When I clicked on the icon to install Adobe 9.3 winzip > extracted the files to my desktop. I admit that was my fault. > > But what was weird was that after deleting the files from my desktop, they > kept reappearing after about two or three re-boots. The last time I rebooted > those damn files were gone. But if they appear tomorrow I'll have to > reformat my Windows XP. > > Adobe seems to be bloated. When downloading they offer all kinds of crap, > N.Y. Times subscriptions, etc. I hate to admit this, but with all my > experience, as the one who is called upon to fix family computer problem, I > confess that I am incapable of installing Adobe 9.3. > > But I don't want to learn how. I want some non-bloated Windows program that > reads PDF files and that I can trust. And if my wife wins the lottery, I'm > closing down my business and removing Windows from my desktop and laptop. > > Thanks for any recommendations. > > Bob
Last I checked there were no superb alternatives to Adobe Reader on the Windows platform. Something that might be workable for you is Sumatra http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html Looks like evince is now on windows (it's the default in most gnome based installs) but I've never tried it on windows. http://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/evince/2.30/evince-2.30.0.msi Adobe's reader has been bloated for years, Air is similar to XUL from Mozilla, basically a library which people can make desktop based flash applications with. It has interesting potential but like Itunes/Quicktime I really wish it wasn't bundled into a behemoth that eats memory whole and doesn't let you turn it off. Good luck, Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
