PDF-opening software other than Adobe Reader?

Piotrek81 · Post by **Piotrek81** » October 30th, 2016, 4:04 am

Adobe software works extremely slowly when opening the book I want to read and after the latest update it has slowed down even more. Can someone suggest an alternative? (I'm using Windows 7).

Post by **Availle** » October 30th, 2016, 4:07 am

Win 8:

I'm using Nitro Pro 9, came with the laptop (Lenovo). There's a free version that does the trick for me, but if you need to cut out pages or merge documents etd, you'll have to pay for it. It's cheaper than adobe, but still expensive methinks.

Piotrek81 · Post by **Piotrek81** » October 30th, 2016, 4:11 am

I only need to open files. I'll look into Nitro. Thanks

Post by **TriciaG** » October 30th, 2016, 5:17 am

I use FoxIt Reader, which is also free.

Post by **annise** » October 30th, 2016, 5:25 am

TriciaG wrote:I use FoxIt Reader, which is also free.

It keeps crashing when I open people's cd covers , then apologises , wants to send an error report, then works [grump]

Anne

Cori · Post by **Cori** » October 30th, 2016, 5:58 am

I use SumatraPDF, which is another free one.

Piotrek81 · Post by **Piotrek81** » October 30th, 2016, 9:16 am

Thanks for your suggestions.

Hokuspokus · Post by **Hokuspokus** » October 30th, 2016, 11:23 am

I used Foxit for quite a while, but it got more and more Adone-ish Now I use pdf XChange viewer. It's free, it has lots of useful tool but it is fast and I never had any problems with it so far.

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » October 30th, 2016, 8:35 pm

You can probably use your web browser to open PDFs. I know that works on Google Chrome and Opera, probably on FireFox and Edge too.

There's a place in Control Panel where you can change your default PDF viewer, and web browsers show up there.