Adobe Reader or Foxit

[Bob Stromberg]

Several points on this topic:

1. I avoid Foxit after it started changing my default browser search engine
and requiring that I install the Ask toolbar without allowing opt-out. This
was several years ago. Others have complained about this behavior:

http://forums.foxitsoftware.com/forum/portable-document-format-pdf-tools/foxit-reader/18349-does-foxit-reader-free-6-1-4-0217-have-malware

I switched to PDF Xchange Viewer (
http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer). Also, Google
Chrome includes a PDF reader.

2. Several operating systems have built-in PDF viewers (Windows 8.1 has the
Reader app; Mac OS X has Preview).

3. Once in a blue moon I find a PDF that does not open in an alternative
PDF reader. For those cases I install Adobe Reader on one system, then
remove it.

A good discussion of this topic here:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-pdf-readers-windows/

Bob Stromberg
Round Lake, NY

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Mary Carleton <mcarleto at umich.edu> wrote:

> We just distribute via ninite and are OK.
> Farmington Community Library; Michigan
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Jane Frasier <
> Jane.Frasier at jeffcolibrary.org> wrote:
>
>>  Since installing and maintaining all of the various versions of Adobe
>> Reader for 600 computers is so difficult I am giving some thought to
>> exploring FoxitReader. Are any of you using this instead of Reader? How is
>> it working for you? Or are you using some other alternative program for
>> viewing pdfs?
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>>
>> *Jane Frasier*
>> *Software Support Specialist*
>> *Jefferson County Public Library*
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