Wednesday, February 01 2006

I've been using the free Foxit Reader for several months now, relying upon it in places where previously I'd rely on Adobe's Acrobat Reader (I believe they now call it simply "Adobe Reader").

While Adobe makes some fantastic software, Adobe Reader distracts from the actual documents by endlessly making attention demands, and you're eternally aware whenever it plays a part. It also tended to be very heavy on resources, with activities like scrolling through PDFs being a tremendously laborious process. Not to mention that Adobe Reader was responsible for quite a few browser hang-ups.

Foxit, by comparison, is extremely lightweight, and it manages to smoothly navigates through PDFs with ease. Great little product.

   

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Dennis Forbes Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.





 

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