PDF-readers

While Adobe's Acrobat Reader is a bit of a PITA, the amount
of resources
that it uses (and the time it takes to launch) can be
reduced
drastically by removing plugins that are not needed. I don't
have the
site in front of me now, but about a year ago, I configured
and deployed
an installation of Acrobat Reader enterprise-wide that had
most of the
plugins missing. "Nobody" used them, they were
easy to re-enable for
anyone that might need any of them, and with them gone, it
launched
virtually instantly.

YMMV...

Andrew

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:11:50 +0200, "Sorin Srbu"
<sorin.srbuorgfarm.uu.se> said:
> Guys,
> 
> What PDF readers do you know of that are free,
easy-to-deploy and has a
> small
> footprint?
> 
> Acrobat Reader is a dinosaur and a PITA to deploy,
while Foxit Reader has
> a
> tendency to exchange letters, or drop them altogether,
in articles,
> something
> that is not ok when viewing scientific ones. 
> 
> Printing with Foxit is also a problem, in that it
sometimes prints greek
> letters for some text. Very weird. I've reported the
problems to Foxit
> Software, but things don't seem to happen very fast...
> 
> TIA.
> 
> 
> BW,
> 
> Sorin
> 
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Andrew M Stemen <> wrote on Tuesday, October 10, 2006
2:52 PM:

I'll look into it.

Is the plugin-disable-thingie documented on the Adobe-site
then?


> While Adobe's Acrobat Reader is a bit of a PITA, the
amount of resources
> that it uses (and the time it takes to launch) can be
reduced
> drastically by removing plugins that are not needed. I
don't have the
> site in front of me now, but about a year ago, I
configured and deployed
> an installation of Acrobat Reader enterprise-wide that
had most of the
> plugins missing. "Nobody" used them, they
were easy to re-enable for
> anyone that might need any of them, and with them gone,
it launched
> virtually instantly.
> 
> YMMV...
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:11:50 +0200, "Sorin
Srbu"
> <sorin.srbuorgfarm.uu.se> said:
>> Guys,
>> 
>> What PDF readers do you know of that are free,
easy-to-deploy and has a
>> small footprint?
>> 
>> Acrobat Reader is a dinosaur and a PITA to deploy,
while Foxit Reader has a
>> tendency to exchange letters, or drop them
altogether, in articles,
>> something that is not ok when viewing scientific
ones.
>> 
>> Printing with Foxit is also a problem, in that it
sometimes prints greek
>> letters for some text. Very weird. I've reported
the problems to Foxit
>> Software, but things don't seem to happen very
fast...
>> 
>> TIA.
>> 
>> 
>> BW,
>> 
>> Sorin
>> 
>> # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer  Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se
>> # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry,  Phone: +46
(0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM
>> # Div of Org Pharm Chem,                Mobile: +46
(0)701-718023
>> # Box 574, Uppsala University,  Fax: +46
(0)18-4714482
>> # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden     Visit: BMC,
Husargatan 3, D5:512b #
>> # ()  ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail
>> # /
>> #
>> # Harmless tagline follows:
>> #
>> # Sysadmins are the janitors of Information
Technology, no matter how much
>> the current crop of adolescents looks up to them,
like boys in the past
>> admired riverboat pilots and railroad engineers.
>> 
>> *****************************
>> New Site from The Kenzig Group!
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>> and info are available at:
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