Tired of having your Adobe Reader (or Acrobat Reader) constantly bog down and sometimes eventually crash your PC when reading even small PDF files? Foxit is here!
Foxit is absolutely the most popular alternative to the Adobe reader and has been chosen by millions as their default PDF reader. It runs extremely fast and doesn't suffer from some of the memory leaks plaguing Adobe software. It's a lightweight alternative and definitely worth having a look at if you've been plagued by the aforementioned issues.
Do earlier versions of Adobe Reader run on Windows Vista? Adobe Reader 8 has been tested on prerelease versions of Windows Vista. We are now actively testing Adobe Reader on the shipping editions of Windows Vista. Customers can install and run Adobe Reader but may run into issues. In the first half of 2007, we expect to release an update to.
The overall interface of Foxit Reader is certainly familiar and switching from Adobe's monster reader application shouldn't be an issue at all.
Luckily with Foxit's speed demon PDF reader, it doesn't force you to open up documents from the web in a browser window which is still and was one of the issue Adobe's reader suffers from.
The newest version of Foxit Reader (5.0 and above) improves on previous versions with support for drawing, highlighting text and adding notes to PDF documents.
Foxit also offers protection to users from potentially malicious documents.
Take our advice.. switch away from the monster known as Adobe Reader and jump onboard with Foxit.
Foxit Reader is software which can read PDF files.
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from pdf software without restrictions. Foxit Reader 10.1.1.37576 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows 10 PCs but also without a hitch on Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Filed under:When you try to install Adobe Creative Suite 3 on a 64-bit version of Windows, the installer returns the following error message: 'The file AdobePDF.dll on Windows Vista CD-ROM is needed.'
You are given the option to browse to the file.
Update Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional after you install it.
Install the Microsoft hot fix as documented in Microsoft article #930627 available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930627.
Update Acrobat to version 8.1 or later. The Acrobat update is available on the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/support/downloads/.
Manually extract the file 'adobepdf.dll_64' from the data1.cab file before installing Acrobat. When the prompt appears, navigate to this file and select it.
Locate the file 'data1.cab' and open it (you sometimes need a third-party compression utility, such as WinZip, to extract the file).
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional is installed with the Design Premium, Design Standard, and Web Premium versions of Creative Suite 3. Although Adobe has tested Adobe Acrobat 8 (Standard and Professional) on Microsoft Windows 64-bit operating systems running on a 64-bit processor machine, there are known limitations.
As the Adobe PDF printer is not supported on 64-bit operating systems, the 64-bit version of the AdobePDF.dll does not get extracted during installation. Therefore, the installer can't locate it. While Acrobat is installed, the Adobe PDF printer isn't installed. Following the update procedure above addresses the issue.