Choose the execution location for adobe acrobat reader

Good evening,

I only read PDFs or create them by scanning or virtual printing, and when I need to make modifications, which is pretty rare, Acrobat Reader is, in any case, a basic tool, and I prefer a complete editor (also, there are alternatives to Adobe, such as PDF Xchange editor).

So, just for reading PDFs (besides the browsers that do it, which I don't like), the lightest is, in my opinion, the best: I use SumatraPDF, which, once installed, weighs less than 20 MB compared to several hundred for Acrobat Reader and consumes significantly fewer resources.

@brucineBrucine hello,
Thank you for your suggestions and help.
I will look for one that at least allows us to add a manual signature.
The ideal would also be to be able to combine and split several PDFs together, but that might be too much to ask for a single tool...
Best regards
Have a nice day
PS I don't know how to mark it as Resolved. Sorry

@questioninfo1Hello,

Let's remember that the "signature" outside the dedicated (and costly) electronic signature has no legal value, but that's not the point.

Also, nothing prevents one from signing on a piece of paper, scanning it, and permanently saving the image file, which can be inserted when needed, for example, into a Word document that we will convert to PDF virtually.

This virtual printer function also allows splitting a PDF: you just need to do a virtual print of the chosen pages in a PDF under a new name.

Apart from Acrobat Reader, for merging, you either have to do it online (there are multiple sites, some like PDFMerge only do that), or be less stingy about disk space and resources and opt for a compromise: Sumatra doesn't do the job, but Foxit Reader does (including signing) or PDF Creator if you want to also combine the creation of PDFs ab nihilo.

For Foxit, we will fall back into some of the same troubles as with Acrobat Reader: tendency to constantly phone home if not censored, 181 MB installer for 607 MB installed raw, and 537 MB after removing excess language files but without touching the various scripts and addons that, like in Acrobat Reader, mess up our lives without serving the ordinary user.

To "resolve" a post, use the menu with 3 little dots to the right of the initial message.

@brucineI forgot: to save that famous space (for the principle, nowadays storage is manageable), use Foxit Reader instead in portable version where it goes back to a few dozen MB.

@brucineBrucine,
Thank you again for this very thorough and sensible information and advice.
I wish you a good day.
Best regards.