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To: discostu; dennisw
Use Foxit Reader for PDFs. It's got about one-third the RAM footprint that Adobe Acroshat has.

Acroshat is NOT allowed on my machines.

Nowadays, I "print" pretty much everything to PDF in Chrome (in lieu of actually printing it).

That way, I don't have to mess with saved html - and I get everything that I want.

When I want to look at it, Foxit snaps it onto the screen.

11 posted on 05/16/2016 1:58:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: kiryandil

Yep, Foxit is my main PDFer. Especially when I’m doing demos at work, Acrobat doesn’t support a low enough resolution to go through our (admittedly antique) projectors.


12 posted on 05/16/2016 2:17:13 PM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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To: kiryandil

Chrome loads PDFs lots quicker and surer than Firefox...... I use Foxit too for reading a saved PDF. It is a lighter program than Adobe Acrobat.

I like the PDF format...It is out of Adobe’s hands theses days. They don’t have a lock on it anymore.


14 posted on 05/16/2016 3:40:01 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: kiryandil

Last I looked the Adobe Acrobat download was 70 or 90mb. All to read a stinkin PDF....and do other mischief.


15 posted on 05/16/2016 3:43:19 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: kiryandil
Nowadays, I "print" pretty much everything to PDF in Chrome (in lieu of actually printing it).

I just tried that out. Great little trick. I do "save" webs pages from time to time and I will do it this way sometimes. Saving a chrome webpage to PDF format. Tried it at Firefox...cannot do it that PDF way.

I use Firefox as primary browser and chrome for my #2. Firefox is less of a memory hog when you have say 25 tabs open across 4 browser windows. I have scrutinized Chrome and Firefox memory usage in Windows Task Manager and Firefox uses less memory.

18 posted on 05/16/2016 8:51:52 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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