Adobe Reader 9 smoother on Ubuntu

[ade234uk]

First things first, why is Adobe Reader such a big download these days on Windows Machines. And why does it take an age to install as well.

Comparing Abobe Reader 9 on Ubuntu to Adobe Reader 9 on Windows, Ubuntu comes out as the clear winner. Its so much quicker and so much smoother than the Windows version.

[mamamia88]

who cares? it's still a piece of junk software.

[ade234uk]

If its crap, what other pdf readers can you recommend I use in Ubuntu?

[nomko]

If its crap, what other pdf readers can you recommend I use in Ubuntu?

I know that Foxit Reader has a Linux version.
But what's wrong with the standard viewer?

[marl30]

That wasn't the case when I started using Ubuntu a year ago, but I must admit that it has improved a lot with the new version. It opens quicker and browsing is smoother. I don't consider it a junk as others. However, there are plenty of others for Linux. The default one that comes with Ubuntu isn't bad either.

[tgalati4]

Evince works 90% of the time. I have a collection of pathological pdf's that won't open or print correctly in evince but work in adobe9. Follow the evince bug trail and you too will have such a collection.

These bad actors tend to be maps and train schedules from public agencies.

[Quake]

Evince works with every PDF I've come across. But the hand-written PDF files aren't anti-aliased.

[uRock]

I have been using Adobe Reader for about a week in Ubuntu and though it works well, The default PDF reader loads much faster and looks just as good.

[mamamia88]

I just use the default pdf reader. (Document viewer) works great

[marl30]

I've made Adobe Reader my default since 9.4.1 was released. It gives me no issue whatsoever.

[oldos2er]

If its crap, what other pdf readers can you recommend I use in Ubuntu?

Okular. I don't dislike acroread, but it seems to have some security concerns, plus there's no 64-bit Linux version.

[Frogs Hair]

I tried Evince for Windows so I could avoid adobe it looked great but did not work very well at the time . I also tried Foxit but they have the free version set to show water marks in the documents for Windows anyway. I ended up With Sorax @ 7mb on Windows and Evince on Ubuntu.

[jerenept]

I like SumatraPDF on Windows. Just my personal opinion.

[3rdalbum]

I eschew Acrobat Reader. On my father's computer, anything printed from Acrobat is jumbled mess, but Evince works perfectly.

[fillintheblanks]

I recently downloaded 3 adobe reader versions from their website v10, 9, and 8. None of them could run on a stock WinXP Pro SP2 install. What a pathetic waste of time.

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I use Adobe Reader because it has a search function while evince does not.

[uRock]

I use Adobe Reader because it has a search function while evince does not.
If you use Document Viewer, then the search function is easily added to the task bar.

[Cracklepop]

I use Adobe Reader because it has a search function while evince does not.

Hmm, I remember seeing this in one of your threads before...Evince does have search, it's Edit > Find, and like uRock just said, you can put it on the toolbar if you want.

Adobe Reader is huge, slow, and bloated. Even way back in my Windows days I used Foxit instead of Adobe.

I have had a pdf file that didn't display properly in the default viewer, back in 8.10, and I installed xPdf from the repositories to view that file, but I've never seen another like it since.

I personally wouldn't even consider putting up with Adobe Reader just in case I one day come across another misbehaving pdf.

[beew]

I know that Foxit Reader has a Linux version.
But what's wrong with the standard viewer?

Foxit Linux is dead, that is, no more development for quite a while though they don't even have the courtesy to tell you. people only found out when inuring about updates and requesting features in their forum . It is just another example of a company making a crappy Linux version of their Windows product and tosses it to the Linux community and then quietly kills it.

The Linux version is very basic anyway, nothing like the Windows version. A funny thing is it can't even render its own manual correctly (it shows up as gibberish) The only thing it has was speed, but since 10.10 evince has improved a lot. There is really no reason to use Foxit.

[nomko]

Foxit Linux is dead, that is, no more development for quite a while though they don't even have the courtesy to tell you. people only found out when inuring about updates and requesting features in their forum . It is just another example of a company making a crappy Linux version of their Windows product and tosses it to the Linux community and then quietly kills it.

The Linux version is very basic anyway, nothing like the Windows version. A funny thing is it can't even render its own manual correctly (it shows up as gibberish) The only thing it has was speed, but since 10.10 evince has improved a lot. There is really no reason to use Foxit.

Okay, i didn't know that. I've used it for a while and it looked okay to me. In any way it worked fatser then Adobe Reader. But i'm currently using the standard viewer of Ubuntu itself.