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Story: Acrobat 8: a first look

Posted by: I Hate Acrobat Reader (Wednesday 20 September 2006, 2:28 AM)

What about performance? Acrobat Reader has become an infuriatingly bloated application since v6. The dang update engine comes up all the time, forces you to download multiple point updates one on top of the other. sometimes needing a reboot to boot.

Acrobat Reader was supposed to be a lightweight viewer for a shared document platform, whose only justification is that you know the document will look the same on every system that has the viewer installed. It should load in seconds not minutes, it should not require point updates, it should not ask me to download Adobe shareware/trial crap that has nothing to do with reading a PDF file.

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