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   Message 11,370 of 13,597   
   Paul Quinn to Ed Vance   
   PDF Readers   
   15 Oct 14 21:20:51   
   
   Hi! Ed,   
      
   On 10/15/2014 01:53 PM, you wrote:   
      
    EV> I have been using the FOXIT PDF Reader for some time now and liked it   
    EV> until this last Update.   
   [ ...trimmed... ]   
    EV> Are their any other Free PDF Readers than the three I've tried already?   
      
   I asked a similar question over here in a local echo, Ed.  Basically because I   
   was disgusted with the long start up time for Foxit, seeming to take longer &   
   longer to start every time I went to use it.  (This is in my wife's XP-Home   
   VirtualBox, BTW.)  Even when it was loaded, the user experience was like   
   moving & navigating in a fishbowl, with an awkward menu presentation.  It got   
   so bad that I was moving PDFs to a LAN share & using some sort of unnamed   
   Linux PDF viewer to read the file(s), just to simply peek into them.   
      
   Well, one of the blokes over here clued me into a neat _little_ viewer called   
   something like PDFXViewer or PDF Xchange viewer, by an outfit called   
   (unfortunately-named...) Tracker Software.  It's installed at 31Mb!  It loads   
   up in a jiffy, and feels great.   
      
   Try it.  Of course, be careful with any additional 'overhead' software they   
   may include... I can't recall what happened but I develop a nasty shoulder   
   twitch whenever I download & install stuff in Windows these days, taking   
   particular care with all the 'wizard'-like prompts, and I forget whatever   
   hoops & hurdles I had to dodge with that one.  I hope you like it too.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   --- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0   
    * Origin: Paul's Puppy 4.2.1 multiuser vBox - M'boro, Qld, OZ (3:640/1384)   

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