PDF Readers

[Mortis]

I'm beginning to feel a little futile - in search of the perfect answer to everything I keep making these posts asking and polling you for your experiences. Still, hopefully someone's found a program or two based on these threads. I really don't know if these are useful in any way.

Recently I've grown very tired of Foxit Reader; It's grown slower and slower with every release, pretty much nullifying any advantage they had before; Still no Firefox integration though it was promised years ago and their user interface has some weird ass features:

• There are separate modes for zooming in and zooming out, triggered by Alt+4 and Alt+5 respectively. Why not one mode with an Alt trigger like in every other program? And there are two buttons for zooming in and out in the menu as well!
• What they call "Bookmarks" is just a page list. Reading big articles is very difficult as the feature is very bouncy.

Sumatra on the other hand keeps crashing for me all the time.

What about you guys?

[nobile]

I use Acrobat Reader, but I'm not really happy with it, it's too big and takes ages to load all the time... I recently uninstalled it at home, in my desperation to get more disk space
Haven't found anything else, I thought about googling for some programs, but if you guys have better ideas, I'll take note

[Mortis]

I just installed the latest Adobe Reader out of curiosity; It opened fast but the page output is still awfully sluggish. I enable 2D acceleration but it had very little effect.

SumatraPDF and Foxit Reader are the only real alternatives right now as far as I see it, you should give a try with both, really, as they require no installation.

I'll have to test the Firefox plugin of Adobe Reader before I uninstall this.

[Armand]

A good while ago I finally got pissed at Acrobat and wiped the floor with it, and got Foxit instead. It was alright, however after some time it started to be a real problem that it couldn't open all PDFs. Kind of misses the point when easily a third of them were not viewable. Finally I assed myself to reinstall Acrobat, and wuala! All PDFs worked. Ever since I've used Acrobat, even though it still is a pain in the extreme lower back specially when used inside the browser. Maybe one day I will gather enough ork to try out that Samba thing. Or whatever Sumatra wtf

[Enok]

I have a solution for you: KPDF.

P.S. Linux only

P.P.S. Sorry I couldn't resist

[Mortis]

It looks great, are you using it yourself?

[Enok]

It looks great, are you using it yourself?

Yea, maybe one of the reasons I switched to Kubuntu was to bring this baby home. It is superior when compared to Gnome's Evince.