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Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader

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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Adobe Acrobat e-Book Reader: When You Can't Wait for What You Want

by naphtalia Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 100, Feb 24 '02
Pros: A great tool when you have to the book right away.
Cons: Big program and big files. But worth it for me.
As a graduate student living in a foreign country, my access to university libraries is quite limited. Even when I can use the university libraries where I am, the resources they have available are often either 1) not available to me, 2) not in English,...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Documents Fly Through the Web With the Greatest of Ease

by lap0530 Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 1000, Dec 03 '00
Pros: Free Viewer Program for PDF Files
Cons: None
An Electronic Document Standard

To appreciate the need for Acrobat Reader, one first must understand the Portable Document File (PDF) technology of Adobe Systems. According to Adobe:

“Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Adobe Acrobat Reader and Electronic Documents

by Cornell2000 , Apr 17 '01
Pros: free, good user interface
Cons: Requires a large amount of memory and system resources, only opens Acrobat files
The odds are that at some point, you have been surfing around the Internet and have ran into a file in the PDF format. These files, known as Portable Documents, need to be opened using the Acrobat Reader. As a college student, I have actually used PDF...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 2.0
 

Something better has to come along

by HawgWyld Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 200, Jul 31 '01
Pros: Great way to get tax forms from the IRS; decent format retained
Cons: Slow, bug-ridden program; PDF files are huge
Adobe Acrobat has been the standard way to transmit documents for years. Portable document format (PDF) files can be found all over the Internet thanks to Adobe, and that means that documents can be sent in their "proper" formats across several different...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 1.0
 

Why do they make me use acrobat reader?

by funkywizard , Sep 27 '00
Pros: Cross platform program, lots of developer support, free
Cons: clunky, poor installer program, hard to read information presented
Adobe acrobat reader has been a favorite program for content developers for years it seems. At the same time, it has been a thorn in my side for the same amount of time. There are several reasons for this.
First, any program that uses acrobat...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Adobe Acrobat Reader Is Universal

by JMB623 Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 1000, Nov 13 '00
Pros: creates small files, cross-platform file transfer, universal standard, free
Cons: none
Adobe Acrobat is the program that creates "portable document files" (pdf). This $200 application is the mainstay of web professionals for creating files that can be exchanged, downloaded, and printed across Mac and Windows platforms exactly as...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 2.0
 

You'd think something called "acrobat" would be flexible...

by basilisk4 Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Sep 27 '00
Pros: Opens PDF files
Cons: Slow, resource hog, annoying, installs multiple copies of itself and DirectX on your machine
But unfortunately, it's not. For the past few years, various companies have increasingly migrated toward using Adobe Acrobat Reader format (also known as PDF) for storing their documents online. The first time I had to download and open a PDF file, I...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

it's a good thing, you should have it

by seric26 , Oct 31 '00
Pros: focused, useful ability to recreate documents in hard copy
Cons: you have to know its limitations
The doubtful reviewers of this product don't seem to really get what it's for. In fact, a lot of negative reviews of software seem to come from user's wanting multi-purpose miracle machines when what they've got is simple, one-purpose functionality....
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Why use this?

by t13monkeys Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Sep 27 '00
Pros: useful to some
Cons: useless to others
Yeah, the first thing I thought when I saw this, is why bother? After all can't we get all the information we need on web sites? Why would I need a program to let me essentially view data in a book like format when I have web sites already?

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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Let Adobe Do the Reading!

by Anniemal , Jan 04 '01
Pros: free, easy to use
Cons: none
While surfing the net, you may run across some sites in which you are required to download .pdf files. PDF files are Portable Document Files, which can be seen on most computer platforms. This feature is very convenient to share documents online so...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 2.0
 

Can Someone Please Tell Me The Reason For This Program?

by SParkfan77 Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 1000, Mar 22 '01
Pros: Clear picture. Web link enabled
Cons: Only reads the .pdf file type. Too Expensive
There are many programs available online that do a lot of things. Some things are more useful than others for instance. I was looking around on my computer for some computer software the other day and I noticed a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Acrobat Reader: You'll need it at some point

by Kris. Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Nov 20 '00
Pros: free, and the only cheap way to view PDF files
Cons: none
Let me guess – you went to a website and it insisted that you download Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to look at a document, so you came here to decide whether using the program is a good idea. Hopefully the following information will help you make your...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Worthwhile free upgrade

by taxirick , Oct 24 '00
Pros: Free, Easy to use
Cons: Long Download
The need for a reader is obvious. To view files created by Acrobat in the venerable PDF file format you need only to download the free program from Adobe. The purpose of the format was to create a single file that could be viewed exactly as it was...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Reader 4.0 -vs- Reader 3.0 - a comparison

by NetDanzr Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Oct 30 '00
Pros: Improved browser integration, new saving function, better document handling.
Cons: Lack of print resolution settings, steep software requirements
Even though Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 has been out for quite a while, many people still use the previous, 3.0 version. However, there are many changes in the new version, which are worth mentioning, and which, hopefully, will help you decide whether to...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Great Product, if you need it.

by jazzo , Dec 27 '00
Pros: Easy to use
Cons: Many people may not need it.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is a great product, for those of you who will need to use it. This Review attempts to explain its good points, and some of the reasons you might use it.

What it is
Acrobat Reader is essentially a program to...
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