Favourite PDF reader

[Sathish]

Pick up your favourite pdf reader.
It should be a freeware.. usability is more important.

My priorities goes below

1> Speed
2> Text and Image Quality
3>Other Features.
4>license.

for me > PDF X Change viewer.

 

[skeletor]

Adobe Reader = bloat.

 

[khmadhu]

foxit reader is light weight and fast..

 

[gopi_vbboy]

foxit is good

ya i agree adobe reader is a bloat

 

[Cooltechie]

Adobe reader is certainly a bloatware.Crashing from time to time and other problems.
For me it is only and only Foxit PDF reader.Simple ,fast and easy to use

 

[Sathish]

yes.. adobe has several problems from version 5.

as far as i know, nobody use adobe.
but i would like to know what type(!) of people use adobe reader.
also adobe system does not care about end user ?

 

[Rockstar11]

Foxit PDF reader

 

[topgear]

overall foxit pdf reader is the best one - it's small, have very little memory footprint and is very fast.

 

[seychellesblue]

foxit is good.
But does it handle inbuilt videos?
I am not sure as downloaded a pdf file of 22 pages of plain text with some added videos. they were supposed to be guitar tabs. foxit could not play it. I have not tried adobe as I have long uninstalled it.

have you ever got this type of problem?

 

[topgear]

For general PDF file viewing Foxit is always the best

but for a multimedia pdf file with mixed contents like audio and video I like to use adobe pdf reader - it also has gpu acceleration - just enable it in options and see the zooming of a document will be smooth as butter.

 

[Tech.Masti]

Foxit... Never heard about PDF Xchange/sumatra ... Will surely give it a try...

 

[Rahim]

Okular - A Document Reader for KDE 4.

 

[topgear]

^^ is this the best pdf reader for linux - it would be really great if you can name some other pdf readers for linux.

 

[Rahim]

^ Evince is also quite good pdf reader for Linux.

Okular does the job for me and handles large pdfs quite well.

 

[topgear]

^^ thanks for informing

 

[desiibond]

been using Adobe reader all the time. need to try foxit reader soon.

 

[TheHumanBot]

Fox it.
its gets installed in just less then 1 minute.
Opens PDF really fast. no waiting.
i didnt notice the Handtool in latest adobe reader which i always use in Foxit.

i would say best pdf editor as well.

 

[Rahim]

^^ thanks for informing

X-Pdf is also good but a little simplistic inteface; not elegant though.

 

[topgear]

I've used that but Evince is avilable for windows too - right ?

@ vishalgmistry - just right click in anywhere on the document and select hand tool for Adobe pdf reader.

 

[Rahim]

^I believe Evince is available for Windows too. Can you post a link for some multimedia embedded pdf so that i can test whether Okular supports it properly or not?