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Viewing PDFs

Started by Cranewings, September 18, 2011, 03:22:11 PM

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Cranewings

#15
September 19, 2011, 01:20:01 AM
Quote from: greylond;480047Hey, all I can tell you is that I've been using Foxit for about 4 years now, on multiple computers, XP and Win7 and have never had a problem with it...

Foxit seems awesome for my regular PDFs. Paizos PDFs just suck.

greylond

#16
September 19, 2011, 01:30:35 AM
Quote from: Cranewings;480053Foxit seems awesome for my regular PDFs. Paizos PDFs just suck.

I couldn't offer an opinion about Paizo's, I've never bought any of their stuff.

Imperator

#17
September 19, 2011, 02:07:14 AM
Quote from: J Arcane;480009You will thank me later.
Well, I'm thanking you now :) It's really great. I installed it on my Toshiba netbook and is working wonders.
My name is Ramón Nogueras. Running now Vampire: the Masquerade (Giovanni Chronicles IV for just 3 players), and itching to resume my Call of Cthulhu campaign (The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man).

Galeros

#18
September 19, 2011, 02:08:49 AM Last Edit: September 19, 2011, 02:10:50 AM by Galeros
Quote from: greylond;480058I couldn't offer an opinion about Paizo's, I've never bought any of their stuff.

Eh, I imagine if he is trying to read the core rulebook as a PDF then that might explain why he is having trouble. That thing is massive.

I still use Adobe Reader myself, it drags on some files, but is fine for others.

Lord Rocket

#19
September 19, 2011, 02:33:45 AM
Quote from: Cranewings;480008As far as the pure text feature, I found something that lets me view it as if it were typed into note pad, but it takes up too much space / loses its formatting. How do you start the feature you are talking about?

That would be the feature I was talking about. Sometimes it works pretty well (you generally have to zoom out a bit, using the mouse, to get a whole page on screen), sometimes it doesn't - unfortunately this seems to be one of those times. It does speed up rendering a fair bit when it doesn't make the document unreadably ugly, though.

Cranewings

#20
September 19, 2011, 08:24:12 AM
Quote from: Lord Rocket;480071That would be the feature I was talking about. Sometimes it works pretty well (you generally have to zoom out a bit, using the mouse, to get a whole page on screen), sometimes it doesn't - unfortunately this seems to be one of those times. It does speed up rendering a fair bit when it doesn't make the document unreadably ugly, though.

Got ya, thanks.

kryyst

#21
September 19, 2011, 10:59:45 AM
There was a time and a place when Foxit was smaller and faster.  It's since been spending it's time getting bigger, bloated and buggy while Adobe has actually gotten a lot smaller and more trouble free.  Plus I constantly run across pdf's that Foxit or other readers can't open and only Adobe can.
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Lord Rocket

#22
September 19, 2011, 07:41:33 PM
That has never once happened to me, and I can't imagine why it would since PDF is apparently an open standard. Although, I see that PDF 2.0 came out very recently, and perhaps Foxit et. al. haven't caught up yet.
Can you give an example of a PDF that doesn't work outside of Adobe Reader, please? I'd like to see this for myself.

PS. I checked out Sumatra - not bad, not bad.

Imperator

#23
September 20, 2011, 02:32:30 AM
Sumatra is rocking this far. Pity I can't use it in my Ubuntu computer.
My name is Ramón Nogueras. Running now Vampire: the Masquerade (Giovanni Chronicles IV for just 3 players), and itching to resume my Call of Cthulhu campaign (The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man).

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#24
September 24, 2011, 12:23:36 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;480009If you want a PDF reader that actually is faster, lighter, and more stable, what you want is SumatraPDF.  

Go here: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

You will thank me later.
Wheeelookitthatgo. I can't click faster than it's loading. I'll have to dig out my PF Bestiary PDF and see how that goes.

3rik

#25
September 24, 2011, 04:16:41 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;480009(...)If you want a PDF reader that actually is faster, lighter, and more stable, what you want is SumatraPDF.  

Go here: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

You will thank me later.
Hey, thanks! :hatsoff:
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