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It’s time has come. Finally! A worthy PDF reader has replaced Adobe Acrobat! I can’t rave enough about Foxit PDF Reader. It’s light, it’s easy, it doesn’t track my every online move, and–most importantly– it doesn’t make my computer crash when I start it up (unlike other PDF readers, ahem). For the novice, it is a little complex with its updating features. When I updated it today, it asked me all these questions that I didn’t know how to answer! I just went with it, and it did fine. The update (the newer version, Foxit 2.2 for Windows) speeds up the program even more, and I love the “minimize to tray” option when I right-click the titlebar.

From the Foxit website:

• Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.1 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
• Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
• Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
• Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
• High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users’ permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.

I found myself nodding over every one of those points, especially the first two and the last one.

I have hated Adobe Acrobat for a very long time. On all my computers, it crashes them. When I do manage to get the program going, Adobe is slow and stutters. It drove me beserk and for a few years I wondered why there was no PDF reader alternative. Now that there is, and a better reader at that, I wonder why I’m not hearing enough or seeing much marketing about Foxit. Adobe is the “standard,” kind of like Windows to Apple; so maybe Adobe controls so much of the marketplace and Foxit is squelched out? People should be hooting about this new PDF reader!

Politics aside, Foxit is free, is faster, it’s better. One note, the PDF Reader is free. The PDF Creator is not, it just gives you a free trial. But creating PDFs is easy enough with OpenOffice, a terrific word processing program I’ll tell you about soon.

In the meantime, if you open PDFs, get Foxit. You’ll be stunned at the difference.

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