Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 28, 2006 11:18 PM
...a pig!
When I first installed OpenSUSE 10.1 with the "non-free, non-open" applications, in installed Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF viewer from the Firefox web browser. The first time I clicked a PDF link, I thought my computer had frozen. It literally takes nearly a minute of solid hard drive activity to load the bloated thing. Just to read a PDF. This on a 2GHz AMD with 512MB of RAM, not the fastest but certainly no slouch.
Go to the Adobe website and try to download Acrobat Reader. 41MB! Just to read PDFs! Yes, it has lots of features in there that are "cool" however, in the last several years I can think of only one PDF I have needed to read that used any features such that it required the "real" reader.
Nope. I do not and will not use Adobe Acrobat unless I have to. And, since 90% or more of the PDF files out there work fine with the leaner and less complicated alternatives, I don't feel any pain from avoiding the bloated thing!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 28, 2006 11:18 PMWhen I first installed OpenSUSE 10.1 with the "non-free, non-open" applications, in installed Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF viewer from the Firefox web browser. The first time I clicked a PDF link, I thought my computer had frozen. It literally takes nearly a minute of solid hard drive activity to load the bloated thing. Just to read a PDF. This on a 2GHz AMD with 512MB of RAM, not the fastest but certainly no slouch.
Go to the Adobe website and try to download Acrobat Reader. 41MB! Just to read PDFs! Yes, it has lots of features in there that are "cool" however, in the last several years I can think of only one PDF I have needed to read that used any features such that it required the "real" reader.
Nope. I do not and will not use Adobe Acrobat unless I have to. And, since 90% or more of the PDF files out there work fine with the leaner and less complicated alternatives, I don't feel any pain from avoiding the bloated thing!
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