Adobe Acrobat is Evil.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t care much for Acrobat reader. I love the PDF format, and have since it’s introduction. The idea and execution of the format seems really rich and very useful. Thus it confuses me how the inventor of the PDF can make a reader that is so slow and buggy. Don’t get me wrong, Acrobat professional is the best thing since digital sliced bread for creating .pdf documents. It’s the reader I hate.

Luckily I have finally found a replacement. So far so good. It’s fast and has reasonable features. It can open huge 100MB manuals almost instantly. Pagination is almost instant as well. Overall I find it useful and outstrips the real artifact in speed by quite a factor. Be my guest and test it out. If you have different or even the same result please post your experiences here.

drum roll please. The product is Foxit reader.

Here is the download.com link.