Flash alternatives

[Billy Crook]

If I had ever used Windows, (hypothetically of course) I would have
used FoxIt reader, because it was, er, could be, really, REALLY fast,
and didn't have to "Install" anything.  It was portable before
"Portable Apps" existed as a site.  ...Worth a look...

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 08:14, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
<brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
> Man, you have so much going on in your post, I'm not sure what you are
> trying to run this on.  I have used Sumatra for PDF reading, from the
> Portableapps.com site on a windows box.   the fact that it is open source
> should mean that it has a Linux pkg somewhere.  Alas, I just looked and it
> is Winders only.  Sorry.
>
>
> Brian Kelsay
>
> ________________________________
> From: Sean Crago
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:59 PM
>
>
> The recent posts asking about Adobe reminded me of an issue I've been having
> for some time. The bundled reader in Mac OSX is nigh-infinitely faster (even
> on arcane 300mhz G3 processors) than anything I've ever seen for Windows and
> Linux. The only thing I've seen that comes close in terms of performance is
> the Windows shareware Foxit Reader. Evince et al have certainly made great
> strides in terms of speed, and it's certainly simpler and sucks less than
> Adobe's Reader, but it's still not nearly as fast, responsive, and easy to
> use as Apple's Preview. I still see "Loading...." far too often on an Athlon
> X2. Using Evince or the bundled PDF reader in Maemo, on an N800 with specs
> that really aren't all that different from the old Mac I used to have, I'm
> forced to waste so much time reading a PDF that I have to go all old-school
> and run pdf2html and read it with fbreader.
>
> Is there anything out there that's substantially faster than Evince?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean Crago
>
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