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What is your favorite free PDF Reader and the one that you consider best?
What is your favorite PDF Reader? (March 2016)
- Thread starter jackuars
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- Oct 1, 2015
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On my android tablet, I have +10 PDF readers; SmartQ reader, Mantano, Xodo, Radaee, Mupdf, PDFviewer, foxit and others. None of them is perfect. A perfect PDF reader should be fast rendering, and should show search results while you're still viewing the same page (and it should be secure/light etc.)
Now with Windows, I'm still looking for an "acceptable" PDF reader, currently I use both Adobe and Sumatra and looking into other options.
Adobe is obviously the most popular PDF reader, it has always worked flawlessly for me, but it's the least secure of all.
Sumatra seems to lack many features.
I was disappointed with the Windows version of Mupdf, which is nothing like its android counterpart.
Foxit is the most non-adobe popular reader, I wanted to do some research before installing it, and I was surprised by the negative feedback about a bundled toolbar and unwanted programs, even a Gizmo review from 2015 warned about it ***Caution! Foxit is bundled with a variety of unwanted components that will attempt to install toolbars and change your system settings. The exact nature of these unwanted components is changed regularly. Users need to take great care during the installation process to avoid these unwanted items. *** Best Free Non-Adobe PDF Reader
Other alternatives are PDFxchange viewer (still need to read more reviews before I can give it the thumbs up), and I'm intrigued by "evince" by GNOME, I have never used any GNOME software, are GNOME products trustworthy from a security/privacy perspective?
Now with Windows, I'm still looking for an "acceptable" PDF reader, currently I use both Adobe and Sumatra and looking into other options.
Adobe is obviously the most popular PDF reader, it has always worked flawlessly for me, but it's the least secure of all.
Sumatra seems to lack many features.
I was disappointed with the Windows version of Mupdf, which is nothing like its android counterpart.
Foxit is the most non-adobe popular reader, I wanted to do some research before installing it, and I was surprised by the negative feedback about a bundled toolbar and unwanted programs, even a Gizmo review from 2015 warned about it ***Caution! Foxit is bundled with a variety of unwanted components that will attempt to install toolbars and change your system settings. The exact nature of these unwanted components is changed regularly. Users need to take great care during the installation process to avoid these unwanted items. *** Best Free Non-Adobe PDF Reader
Other alternatives are PDFxchange viewer (still need to read more reviews before I can give it the thumbs up), and I'm intrigued by "evince" by GNOME, I have never used any GNOME software, are GNOME products trustworthy from a security/privacy perspective?
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