Author Topic: How to download Adobe Acrobat Reader without the awful download manager! (Read 8072 times)

microsoft windows · « **on:** Fri, 31 December 2010, 20:11:34 »

I've always hated the stupid download manager Adobe is trying to force on people these days. But, I found a link to their FTP site where one can directly download Acrobat Reader in a nice, no-nonsense way. I figured I wasn't the only person here who dislikes this type of download manager, so here's link:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/

BlueRain · « **Reply #1 on:** Fri, 31 December 2010, 21:16:30 »

You can always use an alternative PDF reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

ch_123 · « **Reply #2 on:** Fri, 31 December 2010, 22:39:29 »

Used to use Foxit, but got put off by the adware-ish nature of it. I use Sumatra which is lightweight and open source. I miss the tabs that Foxit had though.

Adobe's one is terrible. Last I checked, it pre-loads itself into RAM everything you boot Windows to speed up the load times for opening PDFs...

godly_music · « **Reply #3 on:** Sat, 01 January 2011, 02:37:11 »

It goes like Adobe < Foxit < PDF-XChange < Sumatra. I found out about the latter only a short while ago and it is so cool.

Brian8bit · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 01 January 2011, 02:52:50 »

Evince have a Windows build that I use on Windows machines.

http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Downloads

RoboKrikit · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 01 January 2011, 03:22:59 »

Ninite will install Sumatra, Foxit, or Adobe Reader for you without prompting or bo****. Really handy for new installs.

CeeSA · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 01 January 2011, 12:08:46 »

+1 foxit small and fast, many addons possible

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Author Topic: How to download Adobe Acrobat Reader without the awful download manager! (Read 8072 times)