Is there any reason to use adobe pdf reader?

Cerawy · 09 Dec 2022

cereberus said:

I said why - it has a few useful tools for annotating pdfs. There are many tools out there - I have just got used to this as it is the only one my company allows other than Edge for general use.

I have a much more powerful editing too that is far ahead of anything else but it is expensive to licence but only a few of us are allowed it for our work needs.

What do you mean with annotating pdfs, could you be a bit more specific?

Ghot · 09 Dec 2022

Cerawy said:

What do you mean with annotating pdfs, could you be a bit more specific?

He means editing.

Malneb · 09 Dec 2022

As mentioned all browsers can read PDF natively so there is not really much point in using something like Adobe PDF reader unless you want to actually edit PDF.

Cerawy · 09 Dec 2022

Ghot said:

He means editing.

Well, im pretty sure you can do that with edge too?

Ghot · 09 Dec 2022

Cerawy said:

Well, im pretty sure you can do that with edge too?

I don't use EDGE... ever.

I don't need to edit pdfs so I use SumatraPDF. It has no bloat.

Sumatra PDF reader download page

Try3 · 10 Dec 2022

Cerawy said:

What do you mean with annotating pdfs, could you be a bit more specific?

I printed your post to pdf then highlighted it & added a comment [an annotation].

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Several pdf readers can do this. I used Foxit PDF Reader.

SumatraPDF does not have advanced search capabilities [see my earlier post #2].
It is only 13MB whereas Foxit is 117MB. And that 100MB gets me advanced search capabilities.
I have Sumatra on my Win10 install USB, because it's the only PDF reader I've found that can run on it, but have no use for it otherwise.

Denis

Try3 · 10 Dec 2022

Cerawy said:

Well, im pretty sure you can do that with edge too?

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But Edge does not have advanced search capabilities [see my earlier post].

All the best,
Denis

Try3 · 10 Dec 2022

Malneb said:

As mentioned all browsers can read PDF natively so there is not really much point in using something like Adobe PDF reader unless you want to actually edit PDF.

Post #2 provides a good reason.

All the best,
Denis

Cerawy · 11 Dec 2022

I just tested it. It seems like you can open pdfs and fill out the form with edge, but it doesn't seem like you can do much besides that.

hroldan · 14 Dec 2022

Cerawy said:

It seems that microsoft edge can now view pdf files. What would be a good reason to use the adobe pdf reader these days?

Adobe Reader is not the only option, the one shipped with Windows 8.1 was amazingly fast, I kept it for low end machines using low resources and still running fast, other than that you might try XODO PDF, it's the fastest option I know, it's free and allows elegant edits.

Cerawy said:

Is there any reason to use adobe pdf reader?

NO, unless you need it to comply with specific PDF workflow-functions or specific plugins, other than this, Adobe PDF has grown out of proportions, it's slow, huge, and you don't really need so many megabytes to open 1mb documents.