While Adobe Reader is the standard for reading PDF files, it is a chunk of bloatware. By the time all the plugins load and the splash screen disappears, you could have gone to the store and bought a hard-copy of the book you were trying to open.
Foxit Reader 2.0 for Windows is a small and fast alternative to Adobe’s version. Both products are free.
There are a couple of features in Foxit that I really appreciate: the ability to annotate a PDF and a converter that lets you save a PDF as a basic text file.
Other features:
* Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 1.5 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 2.0 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 Internet without users’ permission. While other PDF Reader often silently connects to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware or adware.
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