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Re: Adobe Reader and Yahoo Toolbar

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:24:12 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>
>Use an alternative like GhostView < http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ >. I
>rarely ever use Acrobat Reader, which is a tremendous resource hog. It
>takes about 5-10 seconds on a modern machine to open a PDF for the first
>time in a session. It then grabs memory and subsequently it takes just
>several seconds to open PDF's in the current session. It only takes me a
>couple of seconds to open PDF's with KGhostView, which is used as my
>default PDF reader. Interaction is a snap and the coarser font rendering
>does not bother me.
>
>Roy


Ta for that. I *hate* acrobat cos if anything is going to break ie
it'll be that. Curses on the SE who show pdf files!
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