Portable PDF reader
In my previous post I gave information about the Portable Office suit and portable Firefox this time here I am with a portable PDF reader. This is a very small tool and I loved it, after using this I decided I should not install acrobat reader or any PDF reading software on my computer for giving an amount of RAM and Hard disk to that particular program even If I am not using it. Day before yesterday I in need of PDF reader so First I thought to download acrobat reader 9 than I decided for Foxit PDF reader but finally I ended up with Sumatra PDF reader.
It comes in a zipped exe file of around 1.07MB size and after extraction its size is only 1.6MB.I extracted it and after extraction with few setting this software would worked as fine as it works for a machine where it is installed. I can open any PDF file by just double click on the file with Sumatra Portable PDF reader
Here is the method to use this portable PDF reader
1) After downloading extract the file at your desired location.
2) Now go to you PDF file right click on the file and select open with.
3) Click on Browse button and browse the SumatraPrtablePDF.exe file. This file will be there in your extracted folder.
4) Do select Always use this program to open this kind of file.
5) Now click on OK
After the above setting you can open any PDF file by just double click on the PDF file that you have.
The best thing that I liked with this software is its Free so you need not to worry about piracy at all.
You can download it from here it is direct link for the download.
This is not compleete I will come with more portable application very soon.
Stop Acrobat Reader Auto Update
Few Days back I got a problem that one of my office met system got dam slow and it was not working at all. I checked the problem and culprit was Acrobat updater. It was running and it was downloading a 27MB of update. It was consuming all the system resource. I stopped Acrobat reader update services from task manager and I tried to stop its auto update from acrobat update preferences setting but I was amazed that there was no control for stop the auto update. After this I had no other option than going to Google.
After a short Google search I was able to get to my destination. In some results it said edit Registry and stop its auto updater but I was not in mood to play with Registry that time so I searched more and found I can stop it just by deleting a folder in Program file. So stopping Acrobat reader Auto update go to
:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe
now here you will get a folder called updater
it may have some number with like updater6 so just delete this folder. Renaming folder would not do the task as its update exe is inside this folder only.
After deleting this folder you need not to do anything you are done with this. After this adobe updater will never prompt you unless you update it manually from its website.
If you have any doubt you can take backup of your updater folder in your backup location before deleting it so if you wish you can restore it any time.
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Small Size PDF reader
Two days back I had to read a PDF document on a computer in which acrobat reader was not installed and worst thing was internet connection was not there at that place but i had to go through with that PDF file that time only. So I opted to use internet by my mobile phone GPRS but problem was still there I couldn’t download a 22MB file on GPRS connection in short time so I decide to get some alternate of the Adobe PDF reader and I found a very good tool with comparatively 10 time smaller sized software for reading PDF files.
Its Foxit PDF reader that gives a good speed and small in size software/
Here is publisher description for Foxit PDF reader
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From Foxit Software:
The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader:
Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.55 MB which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 22 MB size.
Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
Annotation tool: Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document. Save fillable forms after filling them out so you can continue anytime. Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission while other PDF readers often silently connect. Version 2.3 build 2923 adds Bookmark Design, Multi-tab Browsing, Multimedia Player Support, Callout and Text box Tool, Commenting Text Tool, Rulers and Guides."
You can download it from download.com direct link
Or feel free to visit Foxit software official website
http://www.foxitsoftware.com
I found this software very good and light weight for those computers also that have low resource as its resource consumption is not very huge
Read More......Adobe reader 9 offline installation
After release of Acrobat 9 Adobe finally released adobe reader 9 on tueday july 1st 2008. With Adobe Reader 9, users can play Flash movies, Shockwave animation, and other rich media content without needing to open a third-party player.
The Update is supposed to load faster than its version 8 and it will be fast over WebPages also
One very good feature with new tool is that it can save the entire document as text so no need of having any import tool for importing its data. But bad thing with this save as text tool is that it do not support formatting it only export text not the formatting.
When I tried to download Adobe reader 9 from internet it gives me online installation link and for multiple computer installation certainly I do not want to have an online installation so after few tweaking I was able to find Adobe reader 9 offline installation setup
You can download Adobe reader9 offline installation from Here or visit Adobe website for online installation.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=BUIGO
Command to open adobe reader from run panel is acrord32. It will directly open Acrobat installed version.
Hope it was useful for you and you liked it
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Main features:
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