Adobe Reader PDF

Thank you spiralio,

In the mazes of adobeian thinking, the free Acrobat Reader would constitute the trial for Acrobat Pro. A little abracadabrant, isn’t it?

I had forgotten the incomprehensible size of this simple reader.

For me, the verdict is in.

Hello,

The installation creates a folder collab_low in the user temporary folder whose nuisance is only cosmetic (it is empty) but from which it is impossible to get rid even after Reader is closed.

To top it off, the software is written against common sense and still resists not the invader but uninstallation.

It leaves several folders in the Programs and User folders and dozens of entries in the registry.

This is an opportunity to note that besides the other useless or dangerous options, the registry cleaning option in CCleaner doesn’t get rid of it and is therefore useless; one must clean the registry by hand.

Anyway, after uninstallation via the Control Panel and after-sales service, I recovered a mere more than 4 GB of disk space.

Hello,

If you want to get rid of Adobe for something lighter, I recommend SumatraPDF which is much lighter and goes straight to the point (no notifications, no ads, no offers, etc)

I have trouble understanding the hype around Adobe Reader given how much of a hassle the product has become.

https://framalibre.org/par-tag?tag=lecteur%20pdf

Hello Georges97,

On your link at the bottom of the page!

If you go all the way to the link, we’re still under pressure to make people buy; it’s titled Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) and concerns versions from Acrobat Standard (of course paid) and not Acrobat Reader, with a table of the differences between the versions.

Hi MPMP10,

I am not questioning the indications that appear in your screenshots. I consider that Adobe is not clear when changing the characterization of this product from one page to another.

I still believe that all PDF readers (like most antivirus software) exist in a free version, paid PDF editors offering additional features.

This does not prevent them, like their competitors, from pushing to purchase the Pro version, even if the free version functions without interruption.

I do not think it is worth fighting about it (especially with Adobe, which does not care) insofar as the Adobe page (among others) that I indicate presents the product as free.

Other opinions are welcome.

No one strangles themselves.

In my opinion it’s not an error, but a deliberate and more than insistent will to push for the purchase of other products (Acrobat Studio) or paid versions both on the download site and inside the software once installed.

Assuming that we need the additional options (not sure the annotation serves any purpose, unlike what we’re sold; the signature has no legal value until it is hosted by an approved third-party platform and the full edition itself, it’s still the extra step we can often do by going back and forth in Word), note that now all these folks operate not by purchase but by subscription and in the Cloud and that without talking about Acrobat Pro which seems to add only the AI (vade retro), Foxit PDF Editor costs 129€ per year compared to 216€ for Acrobat Standard, to each their own choices.

If all you need is to read, do like me, Sumatra or the browser depending on the mood of the day, not to mention that the bottom line is that the free space on my system partition dropped roughly from 62 to 58 GB before and after Acrobat Reader.

I have this, where the free trial seems to concern only the additional features (probably a bit in the Foxit and company style where the basic features are free but some are in paid version).

Hello,

As I said, I condemn this red tape factory, but I acted as the guinea pig, as is proper from the editor, a panel in the bottom left of the link in <2>.

Nowhere am I asked to register, but since Acrobat is full of vice, the link does not lead to a direct download but to an installer that lasts 10 years.

There isn’t as much adware associated as I can judge.

But opening the software yields a popup table “proposing” Acrobat Studio and the “Premium” features of Reader that must be closed with the cross in the top right.

The software then displays a "Free Trial" (7 days) but it seems likely that this is for the advanced features (PDF tools including electronic signature) and not for Reader itself, you just need to test for more than 7 days.

In this hypothesis, the insistent pressure from the software to buy X or Y is of course unbearable.

Pop-ups are also unbearable, I didn’t check if this default behavior is configurable, but it seems to me to invoke calling AI or sharing my document via WhatsApp when all I asked was to read it.

Any software that relies on pop-ups is undesirable.

Hello,

If the sole reader itself, which marks a certain obesity, is more relevant than others, contrary to the Acrobat editor itself, Reader is more informatively free.

https://www.adobe.com/fr/acrobat/pdf-reader.html?mv=search&mv2=paidsearch&sdid=SGDJMC8N&ef_id=EAIaIQobChMI_aiOhuWmlQMVv7ODBx3dOw_sEAAYASAAEgLvcPD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!759294729564!b!!g!!adobe%20reader!22688802426!184092151431&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22688802426