[clue-tech] Great New Adobe Acrobat Version

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Fri Mar 25 10:11:36 MST 2005


Keith Hellman wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:08:05AM -0700, Matt Thompson wrote:
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>>How does it compare to xpdf?  I'm sure it supports more of those 
>>Adobe-ish features of PDF, but I'm a fan of xpdf because of its speed 
>>and light weight.  How big is it memory-wise when you use it (compared 
>>to xpdf or, heaven forbid, gpdf)?
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>>I'm sure I'll try it out on my box when I have a chance, I'm just 
>>wondering if I'll change.
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>Defintely xpdf is lighter than either acroread5 or (by the looks of
>it) 7.0.  I just loaded 7.0 on my notebook and it certainly takes longer
>to startup. For now, my symlink still points to acroread5.
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Weird I had the opposite experience.  I was hesitant to bother trying it 
out, but I decided to give it a try anyway, and for me it loaded 
lightning fast.

Angelo




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