Meanwhile... > apt show zathura | grep Size Installed-Size: 1,018 kB Download-Size: 224 kB
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The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
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Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Log scale seems like a poor choice, given that the point is to show the relative size disparity.
For a technical audience, it’s probably one of the better choices, it’s probably a poor one for mass consumption. A purely linear graph would absolutely crush their pdf installer and the first 15 years of adobe into a flat line
For reference, here's a version with a linear y-axis: https://imgur.com/a/A2D1puk
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#73What’s the best choice of free desktop PDF Viewer/Editor these days (any OS)? On Windows I’ve been using PDF-XChange for a decade or so now, but curious if better alternatives have cropped up.
I keep jumping between Preview and Skim.
Preview for simple tasks and editing, Skim for advanced reading (think huge pdfs, where I want to see two parts of the file at the same time).
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a technical audience, it’s probably one of the better choices, it’s probably a poor one for mass consumption. A purely linear graph would absolutely crush their pdf installer and the first 15 years of adobe into a flat line
For reference, here's a version with a linear y-axis: https://imgur.com/a/A2D1puk
For the purposes of this article, this graph is much more effective at making the point than the log scale one. I think it would have been a better choice to use a graph like this.
Thanks!
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#75Adobe Reader is the first app I don't install on new machines. It's slow and sluggish, riddled with dark patterns and annoying pop ups, disrespects the user in every possible way, and hides basic editing functionality behind subscriptions. The trashiest piece of crap software. It's up there with MS Word (which gets progressively more bloated on Mac). Edit: Added "software" after crap for clarity.
> Adobe Reader is the first app I don't install on new machines.
Bravo. Reminds me of that song that goes something like "When your phone doesn't ring, it'll be me."
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#76Adobe Reader is the first app I don't install on new machines. It's slow and sluggish, riddled with dark patterns and annoying pop ups, disrespects the user in every possible way, and hides basic editing functionality behind subscriptions. The trashiest piece of crap software. It's up there with MS Word (which gets progressively more bloated on Mac). Edit: Added "software" after crap for clarity.
If you’re talking Mac, why on earth would you install Adobe Reader? I’m sure there’s a different set of 5% functionality for power users, but Preview does everything I need (including things like signature annotation, real redaction, joining multiple PDFs together) and it does it quickly and with everything enabled for free.
Not for power users, for governments :)
I keep the official adobe reader around because it's the only way i can sign some crap for the gov.
It's like a virus, I had to remove update daemons and spam daemons and stuff by hand.
Btw the article says it has "AI" now. Where will it send my tax forms?
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adobe Reader (or Acrobat Reader) is still the industry standard for PDF documents, though. I once found that a PDF file created with OnlyOffice displayed as intended on Chrome, but its embedded font couldn't be recognized or rendered correctly on Acrobat. I keep Acrobat installed only for verifying the integrity of the PDF files I've created.
I had to have Adobe Reader installed at my last job because there were official federal and state government PDFs we had to work with that only displayed correctly in Adobe Reader. Opening them in anything else, like Chrome, showed a different single page that said to open it in Adobe Reader.
>Opening them in anything else, like Chrome, showed a different single page that said to open it in Adobe Reader.
So they intentionally broke the documents for anything not Reader?
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#78Meanwhile... > apt show zathura | grep Size Installed-Size: 1,018 kB Download-Size: 224 kB
I use xpdf or evince. Never ran into a PDF that one of those couldn't handle. My needs are simple though.
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#79At this point i don’t trust large programs anymore. Someone recommended to use Lens to manage a k8 cluster. That application was a 600mb install file and if I’m not mistaken double that after installing on a Mac. Desktop software has become so crazy. Meanwhile the blender download is 300mb. It is not that I’m looking for over optimized software. But a 2gb k8 console doesn’t spark trust in the developers to begin with…
You can take a look at k9s: https://k9scli.io/
Re: The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
#80Adobe Reader is the first app I don't install on new machines. It's slow and sluggish, riddled with dark patterns and annoying pop ups, disrespects the user in every possible way, and hides basic editing functionality behind subscriptions. The trashiest piece of crap software. It's up there with MS Word (which gets progressively more bloated on Mac). Edit: Added "software" after crap for clarity.
If you’re talking Mac, why on earth would you install Adobe Reader? I’m sure there’s a different set of 5% functionality for power users, but Preview does everything I need (including things like signature annotation, real redaction, joining multiple PDFs together) and it does it quickly and with everything enabled for free.
Love Preview but it doesn’t work with all PDFs. I still have to switch to Acrobat regularly.