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Re: foxit reader 2.0 beta is out....
de Franklin 06/04/2006 11:51
On 03 Jun 2006, John Jay Smith<1@2.3> wrote:
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> http://www.foxitsoftware.com
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> Note: this is not pure freeware (nor was version 1.5). It contains
> a small banner. It is thus adware and the freewarecops of this
> newsgroup should not use it. They should stick with linux that is
> GNU.
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I truly love the notion of Foxit: a decent and wholly free PDF
reader which breaks Adobe's stanglehold. But I found it very
annoying that Foxit had associated all PDFs with itself and did so in
a way that made it hard for me to get Adobe reader to associate any
PDF.
When I needed some high-resolution rendering I had to use Adobe
Reader as Foxit was not quite as good. However I had a lot of
trouble customizing the registry to get Adobe back into a PDF's
context menu.
Believe it or not, in the end I uninstalled Foxit which is a great
application but which I found was uncontrollable. Foxit had set
something up to reverse my manual Adobe associations.
When I uninstalled Foxit it tore out all the PDF associations and
left no PDF file extenson defined at all. I wonder if this was just
my system (which has been customized to hell and back) or if it is
Foxit.
I wonder, does Foxit v2 give you an installation option to
associate/unassociate .pdfs? Or maybe a Preferences option?