[windows2000] Re: PDF-readers
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:20:04 +0200
Andrew M Stemen <> wrote on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:15 PM:
I see. 8-) Thx for the info!
> I don't recall. I do remember that the documentation that I worked from
> was not from Adobe, and that the way I "disabled" plugins was to move
> them into a folder outside of \plugins. IIRC, you can rename the plugins
> folder, and while removing *all* of the plugins rather cripples Reader,
> that'll be a quick demonstration for the speed at which it runs without
> plugins. ;)
>
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:57:09 +0200, "Sorin Srbu"
> <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> Andrew M Stemen <> wrote on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:52 PM:
>>
>> I'll look into it.
>>
>> Is the plugin-disable-thingie documented on the Adobe-site then?
>>
>>
>>> While Adobe's Acrobat Reader is a bit of a PITA, the amount of resources
>>> that it uses (and the time it takes to launch) can be reduced
>>> drastically by removing plugins that are not needed. I don't have the
>>> site in front of me now, but about a year ago, I configured and deployed
>>> an installation of Acrobat Reader enterprise-wide that had most of the
>>> plugins missing. "Nobody" used them, they were easy to re-enable for
>>> anyone that might need any of them, and with them gone, it launched
>>> virtually instantly.
>>>
>>> YMMV...
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:11:50 +0200, "Sorin Srbu"
>>> <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>>>> Guys,
>>>>
>>>> What PDF readers do you know of that are free, easy-to-deploy and has a
>>>> small footprint?
>>>>
>>>> Acrobat Reader is a dinosaur and a PITA to deploy, while Foxit Reader
>>>> has a tendency to exchange letters, or drop them altogether, in articles,
>>>> something that is not ok when viewing scientific ones.
>>>>
>>>> Printing with Foxit is also a problem, in that it sometimes prints greek
>>>> letters for some text. Very weird. I've reported the problems to Foxit
>>>> Software, but things don't seem to happen very fast...
>>>>
>>>> TIA.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BW,
>>>>
>>>> Sorin
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