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Article: A PDF reader, more portable apps.(Portable document Format software)(Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader )
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- Network World
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Byline: Mark Gibbs
First up this week, a neat freebie: a lightweight PDF viewer for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 called Foxit Reader
published by Foxit Software.
Foxit Reader is much faster than Adobe Reader and much smaller as a download (1MB, compared with almost 28MB) and as an installed
program (just under 3MB, compared with 90MB).
Although Foxit works as well as Adobe Reader for viewing documents, it isn't quite on par when it comes to filling out forms.
Foxit Reader doesn't detect the position of the pre-defined data entry fields, so you wind up entering data, then dragging