Adobe Reader 9, the free PDF viewer from Adobe, is up for grabs.
As far as looks are concerned, the new release is almost identical to Adobe Reader 8 though it does load slightly faster and is quite nicely integrated with Acrobat.com and Buzzword (read Acrobat.com Review).
That means you can now upload documents & photos to the web from Adobe Reader or even create new PDF files using the PDF writing engine of Acrobat.com.
So should you upgrade to Adobe Reader 9 when there are no new capabilities as far as reading PDF files is concerned?
Well, if you use any of the acrobat.com services or exchange PDFs created in Adobe Acrobat 9, this is a must have upgrade.
Others may want to download the ~34 MB installer of Adobe Reader 9 if they are looking for some speed improvements.
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Reader Comments
This is truly an example of bloatware. There are dozens of leaner and faster loading PDF readers that I’d recommend any average user to install rather than this piece of “software”.
34 MB for a reader’s Setup files? That’s not even counting the space it actually occupies once installed. @Amit: If you’ve installed it, would you please check what the size of the program folder is?
Written by Sparx on 07.02.08
Problem with Adobe is that it uses heavy resources when you are using it with Windows XP. I generally try to use the online tools.
Written by Tech Updates on 07.02.08
I had a lot of problems with Adobe Reader on my Vista machine. It would crash frequently, refuse to open many pdf files and hog memory. I finally switched to Foxit reader and have not had a single problem since. I am never going back to Adobe again.
Written by Lekhni on 07.02.08
If you want “speed improvements” you really should get Foxit!
Written by Aditya on 07.02.08
I would personally recommend Foxit Reader, it’s really light-weight and fast!
Written by Pradeep on 07.03.08
when converting a word document to pdf using acrobat 9 on office pro 2007 not all the words in the document gets converted for example: jmorral@verizon.net when converted only shows @verizon.net or a site Http://www.yahoo.com will only convert link leaving out the Http://
Any fixes or update to fix that problem whould be great
Written by Julian on 11.05.08
acrobat reader 9 refuses now to open any pdf file, does not provide any explanation for it’s behavior. very nice work…
boot done, still hangs around forever with any pdf.
Written by it pro on 01.20.09
Not being able to open pdf files in my emails was driving me insane. So I tried foxit as recommended by Lekhni and no problems so far. I opened the file I needed to open finally. Thank you. Go FOXIT:-)
Written by Ozzie on 01.22.09
I don’t have time for junkware like Reader 9. I need to trust the updates to download and work as well or better than the previous version. Reader 9 does not play will with my company’s applications, and does not play well with my Vista PC.
I could not uninstall it fast enough and re-install Reader 8 from my machine and those of our users.
Adobe is becoming the GM of software producers with bankrupt levels of innovation and testing.
Robert. MCSA
Written by Robert on 03.02.09