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Reader has probably 100 other features that are very important to companies who produce documents consumed by it, that you're probably not even aware of. If yo

Reader has probably 100 other features that are very important to companies who produce documents consumed by it, that you're probably not even aware of. If you're using it as a PDF reader, you're doing it wrong. Try FoxIt (or since they're going the bloat/install-ware route), the lighter Sumatra. If you're not on Windows, I have no idea why you'd go installing Adobe Reader anyway, less you need those previously alluded to features.

Groxx 16y ago
>If you're using it as a PDF reader, you're doing it wrong. Entirely agree. As well as the extra features, which I essentially never see anyone use, though I of course don't see internal documentation. And I've seen one embedded 3D model and a couple sound files. However. "You're doing it wrong" ignores the real world, where almost everyone uses Adobe's reader to view PDFs. OSX users are a bit of an abnormality, as they have Preview installed by default, but many many many things still tell you you need "Adobe Reader" installed, and provide a link, and people install it, and it takes over. Or company / school / government-supplied computers have it pre-installed. I feel I can be confident saying that millions of people use Adobe's reader as nothing more than a reader. That's millions of slow, intrusive, background-running, auto-starting readers just hanging around, waiting to be exploited. And they're likely sitting on computers for people who don't even know any other option exists, are less techy, and are therefore even more likely to be easy-entry targets.
- drivebyacct2 16y ago
  Millions of people run Windows, ignore automatic updates and don't understand why their peers tell them to use Firefox. I don't disagree with your point, but maybe they're just different variants of "doing it wrong". The fact that they're ignorant of alternatives doesn't make it less of a bad practice.

Groxx 16y ago

>If you're using it as a PDF reader, you're doing it wrong. Entirely agree. As well as the extra features, which I essentially never see anyone use, though I of course don't see internal documentation. And I've seen one embedded 3D model and a couple sound files. However. "You're doing it wrong" ignores the real world, where almost everyone uses Adobe's reader to view PDFs. OSX users are a bit of an abnormality, as they have Preview installed by default, but many many many things still tell you you need "Adobe Reader" installed, and provide a link, and people install it, and it takes over. Or company / school / government-supplied computers have it pre-installed. I feel I can be confident saying that millions of people use Adobe's reader as nothing more than a reader. That's millions of slow, intrusive, background-running, auto-starting readers just hanging around, waiting to be exploited. And they're likely sitting on computers for people who don't even know any other option exists, are less techy, and are therefore even more likely to be easy-entry targets.

drivebyacct2 16y ago
Millions of people run Windows, ignore automatic updates and don't understand why their peers tell them to use Firefox. I don't disagree with your point, but maybe they're just different variants of "doing it wrong". The fact that they're ignorant of alternatives doesn't make it less of a bad practice.