Adobe reader alternatives

is there any alternative to Adobe Acrobat reader or is a must to use it ?

Acrobat Reader 6 was a slow, buggy monster, but the new version (7) is a lot faster. I know that for some special PDF features (forms, some security features) Preview doesn't cut it and you have to use Acrobat Reader. But with version 7 this isn't the problem it was with version 6.
-Dan

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Do I need Adobe Reader & alternative browsers?

Hello!
I'm relatively new to the world of Mac and am delighted so far.
However, I've tried downloading a bill from an energy supplier's site (Powergen) and it opens a window then says "we could not access your bill." I've tried on various occasions - same result. It may be the site is having problems; maybe it doesn't recognise Safari (although other areas of 'online account management' seem OK). Also, I tried downloading a document from the British Gas site and it told me I need Adobe Reader. On other sites (so far) PDF-style docs load into Safari's reader with no probs.
Basically, do I need Adobe Reader? Should I try Debug? (where Safari 'pretends' to be IE), and/or should I try different browsers? In my Windows days I used Firefox, although I gather Camino is more 'purpose built' for the Mac. Is this the case?
Many thanks for any advice offered.

Hello Ast. A. Moore, thanks for replying.
I can't provide a link to the Powergen bill page exactly as that is part of the 'security log-in' section.
The British Gas page, however, appears below. I'm sorry about the length of the url but I haven't yet figured out how to make a proper clickable link here.
If you paste the below into your browser and go to this page on their site, then click on the sentence 'British and Scottish Gas Prices' in blue down the page hopefully it will then try to get you their price list. It was at this point I got the 'Acrobat Reader required' message in a new window.
link
I hope the above is useful; and thanks for your help.
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Native Mac alternative to Adobe Reader Pro

Hello people,
I'm looking after an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader Pro, through which i can create custom forms with fixed text and text fields (that not only can accept text input but in some cases show possible options from drop down menus) kinda like a smart PDF form.
I don't like using Adobe products at all and pretty much have a grudge on Adobe. The alternative doesn't really even need PDF support but if it can export to PDF that might be a plus. I use PDFPen Pro but that doesn't do what i explained above.
Was also looking at Filemaker (yes i know it's a DB app) in a possible conjunction with PDF Manipulator plugin but i don't think that will help me do what i need to accomplish. The end goal would be to create a dozen PDF, or whatever format, forms that can simplify the work in my small business, since we do work with a lot of repetitive documents that need change only in some small parts.
Do you guys have any idea?
Thanks

There's no such thing as Adobe Reader Pro. There is Adobe Acrobat, which creates PDFs and Adobe Reader which reads PDFs. Finding an alternative to Acrobat might be difficult in that Adobe owns the PDF format. PDFPen is the only one I've heard of, but I'm not really in the market for that software.
If you are looking for another format to use in-house, that may be possible, but I don't know of any.
I have worked in the Air Force for over 20 years. In that time I've seen them go through various iterations of Form creation and filling software. Every time I've had to ask myself, "why don't we just use Acrobat?" I don't know if it is a licensing thing, but we license all of Microsoft, so I'm not sure that's the answer.
An in-house database solution would likely work for the small number of forms you need. So would Mail Merge in Word. You can create fill-in forms in Word, also. It will do dropdown menu selections, check boxes, etc.

Adobe reader - apparently no alternative

On the Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans web site the following pdf is available:
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pnw-ppe/rfcpp- … 15-eng.pdf
Can anyone who is not using the Adobe reader open this file?
I see:
Please wait...If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents... [visit Adobe.com... get the Adobe reader....]
I have tried several document readers including evince and okular. The only document viewer that opens it is Adobe Reader.
Is it the case that there exists no open source (graphical) document reader that can open this file?
Note that this site (government of Canada) has many similar pdfs.
Last edited by herOldMan (2013-12-17 01:15:08)

In reference to post #3, I have registered my complaint reguarding non-opensource-assessable content on the Canadian government site. The feedback loop is at:
http://www.canada.ca/comments-commentai … z-eng.html
Edit: Feedback link changed on Dec 18, 2013 to http://canada.ca/en/contact/feedback.html
Last edited by herOldMan (2013-12-18 20:54:38)

Downloading Adobe Reader to Alternative Disc Location

The hard disc on my computer is partitioned into two partitions, C and D. I currently have an older version of Adobe Reader installed on partition C which is too full to permit the Reader update to download. I want to install the Reader updated version onto partition D in the "Programs" folder in D. How do I do this?

daatadigger wrote:
It would be helpful if Adobe provided an ability for the user to choose the download location destination. I realize that downloading Reader onto a disc partition that doesn't include the operating system may not be optimum.
1. You CAN choose the download destination, but only with the FULL installer (which you can get here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/)
2. "May not be optimum" wouldn't apply to downloading Reader, but it would apply to installing it. Because Reader relies on registry entries for many functions to work, it would take a lot of modification to install on a drive other than the OS drive, and still have access to those features and preferences.
I was advised a long time ago (after I lost $25,000 worth of music from overloading and locking up an external HD) about hard drive space and "safety limits". I'll pass that advice along to you.
I was told: DON'T let a hard drive get below 25% available for very long and NEVER EVER let one get below 15% at all if you don't want troubles.
The HD I lost was a 500Gb and it had about 3Gb available when it locked up and became unusable.
I've made a tool for cleaning up HD space that goes beyond normal settings in the Windows Disk Cleanup.
Deep Clean.zip
Download that and unzip it.
Double click the "deepclean_set.bat" file to configure the FULL Windows Disk Cleanup. Check ALL boxes in the settings manager and click OK.
Double click the "deepclean_run.bat" file to run the "deep cleanup" on your system. It'll take a while as it removes a lot more unnecessary files than the regular cleanup does.
Aftwerward, you can delete the "deepclean_set.bat" file as you won't need it anymore. But hang onto the "deepclean_run.bat" file for future use when you need to clean up and free up space.

Problem with Adobe reader XI

Can anyone help, I keep getting the message that Adobe reader could not open file, either because it is not a supported file, or the image was damaged, for example it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded. Its happening on files that it has opened before, since the XI upgrade I have been having problems, Is anyone else been getting this message, and is there anything I can do. I have tried uninstalling then re-installing but the problem persists. Is there anyway I can go back to an older version............ Thanks in advance for any help offered x

I am having the same problem. Reader was working fine until Adobe did an update today. Now, I cannot open any PDF files either on my computer or from any other source - says reader is non responsive. running windows 8.1. tried everything on the adobe troubleshooting guide to include:
open adobe reader and try fix form "help - adobe reader non responsive.
closed reader and did fix from control panel - no fix
tried reinstalling reader - no fix
removed the new version with intent to install older version - cannot install
no help here - trying to get work done - this is extremely frustrating.
Anybody know of an alternative to adobe?? I have many .pdf files I need to access.

Dynamic image is not being displayed in Adobe Reader 8.1

Hi,
In interactive form, we have followed below required steps to show a dynamic image.
For the left image, drag and drop an Image Field element from the standard Library tab to the Body Pages pane. Select this image field and edit the following properties:
Click on the Layout tab and choose None for the Caption position.
Click on the Object, then the Binding tab and choose None for Default Binding.
Click on the Field tab, enter $record.SapOnlineShopUrl for the URL entry, and select Use Image Size for the Sizing field.
Click on the script editor and enter the following FormCalc script statement, which enables the dynamic integration of the image. Show: initialize Script: this.value.image.href = xfa.resolveNode(this.value.image.href).value;
Language: FormCalc Run At: Client
Image is displayed properly in Adobe reader 7.1 but it's not being displayed in Adobe reader 8.1.
I was going through some forums and understand that Adobe 8.1 blocks href URL. If this is indeed true, what's the alternative way to show a dynamic image?
Regards
Chandra
Edited by: Chandrashekhar Singh on Apr 24, 2008 7:28 AM

Soory, I thought its static image....
Regards,
Vaibhav Tiwari.
Edited by: Vaibhav Tiwari on Apr 24, 2008 11:45 AM

Questions regarding Adobe Reader Extensions for Adobe Livecycle.

Hi,
I'm relatively new to Adobe products, having just started to use Adobe Livecycle over the last couple of weeks. I've produced a set of interactive forms for field engineers to use. When completed, they will submit the xml data via email. However, there will be numerous occasions where they will need to stop in the middle of data collection and come back at a later point to finish, hence the need to locally save the information before submission.
I understand this is where Adobe reader extensions would come in, unlocking this functionality.
At the moment, i'm a bit of a loss on several points regarding how reader extensions work and i was wondering if anybody could fill in the gaps:
1. Are they seperate modules that bolt in into the main Livecycle application?
2. As these forms will be used off line, i would like to set the permissions to the pdf locally. From what i read, Reader Extensions is a server product. Is this correct, or can i use Reader Extensions to set these permissions before publishing the adobe form?
3. Where can i get hold of Reader Extensions and how much do they cost? I have been reading information on similar topics on this forum (dating 3-4 years ago) that say reader extensions are comparitavely expensive to a Adobe Pro/Livecycle licence. ($50,000 upwards) Is this correct? If so, is there a cheaper alternative to achieve the same outcome?
I hope someone can shed some light on these points!
Thanks in advance.
Rob

Reader Extensions can be bought as a module in LiveCycle. There is a subset of RE functionality that exists in Acrobat. The ability to save locally is part of Acrobat. In both cases you woudl RE the form before distributing it, hence when the user gets your form they are ready to go. You can download a trial version of the server product. As far as pricing goes you woudl be better to talk to an Adobe salesrep as there are discounts for certain situations as well as different pricing options. If you decide tp gp the Acrobat route you ar limited, by licence, to distribute your form to a max of 500 users.
Hope that helps
Paul

I have Adobe Reader in stalled on my MacBook Pro but the plugin is not showing in FireFox so I am unable to open pdf's in browser. How can I correct?

When I encounter a site that requires me to fill in a pdf form the browser opens in Adobe Reader and not in the browser. I have checked off in Adobe Reader to open pdf's in browser but it still will not.

I do not think adobe reader works as a plugin for Firefox on Macs, ( but a PC user myself so I can not check). See [[Installing and updating Adobe Reader]]
Note specifically comments in the Mac version of that [/kb/Using%20the%20Adobe%20Reader%20plugin%20with%20Firefox?s=pdf+plugin+mac&as=s#os=mac&browser=fx35] about alternative plugins.

Issue with Print Properties button not responding in Adobe Reader 10.1.10

We've recently been upgrading Adobe Reader 9.4.4 to 10.1.10 and started having a few reports of the Print -> Properties box in Adobe Reader not responding. When this happens Adobe Reader will crash if you click on the Print button. If you go into Devices and Printers and try and access the Printer Properties you are prompted to install the driver for the device. It does seem to be quite random, it will work fine for days and the suddenly happen. I've done testing and have been able to get it happen by opening Outlook, Word or Excel but it is completely hit and miss. Sometimes the issue will happen and other times no matter how many times you open and close the various applications it's fine.
Fortunately it only seems to be an issue when accessing Properties, if you just print there are no options which is probably why we don't have more complaints. Unfortunately this didn't come to light until we'd rolled it out to 2000+ machines across 8 locations.
So far I've tried the following:
1. Upgraded to Adobe Reader 11.0.9 and same issue
2. Created a test print queue using a different print driver (my machine has a different driver again and is using a different print server)
3. Uninstalled a number of applications that have caused us issues with Office 2010 due to dodgy addins (Workshare and HP Filesite)
4. Rolled back to 9.4.4 and seems OK. Problem here is that they receive PDFs in formats not compatible with older than X.
System is Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 32bit, Office Professional 2010, printing is to Ricoh Equitrac (Follow You)
Anyone have a fix for this or come across this before. I'm going to try testing with a Postscript driver to see if that helps, which is the last item on Adobe's troubleshooting list.

Select a PDF file, CMD+I, check the Open With section, and ensure that AR is selected. If not, then select it and click on the Change All button. Alternatively, select Preview, which is my default PDF reader.

Adober Reader suddenly won't open any PDF files (Mac)

I had an old version, I downloaded the latest one, upgraded to the newest, even tried taking that one out and downloading an older version. It doesn't matter which version I seem to have, it won't open any pdf files from the web.
I use a Mac, and Safari. It used to always load PDF files fine, one random place said I had to update it so I did and since then, lately it'd crash and close all Safari windows when loading a PDF or trying to copy something from a PDF. The smart Mac message I have says it could be related to an Adobe Plug in. However, now it won't even load PDF files at all, it always goes to a white page. Nothing happens.
What do I do?? I can't even save the PDF's as individual files and view then in Preview as an alternative option. It's a link online and normally would work. What happened??
HELP!
I have a Mac OS X Version 10.5.8
I've always used Safari, it's Version 5.0.5 (5533.21.1 if that means anything).
Acrobat Reader, currently an old version 9.4.0 download. BUT, I had also the 10.0.1 version which also doesn't work. When I had that 10.0.1 version and checked for updates, there was an update (.3 I think?) and I did that and that also doesn't work!
Why did it suddenly stop working?
What can I do to fix it ASAP?
Only with 9.4.0 version I can go to Help and "Repair Adobe Reader Installation" - I click that and the only box I can select is "Adobe PDFViewer Safari Plugin - View, fill-in and collaborate on Adobe PDFs within Safari" - I click continue and it tells me there's "No missing components detected. Repairs are not needed." The only option is to click "OK".
With any newer version of Adobe Reader, under Help there is no option to "Repair Adobe Reader Installation". So... I can't even try that with a new version.
I am at a loss for solutions. Hope someone here can help! Thanks!

There are several things you can do. My first step would be to repair permissions. If that doesn't work log on as a different user. If all works properly then you have a corrupt preference file (most likely) or a corrupt user font installed in your user Library (less likely). If that doesn't work download Applejack. Have it repair the disk, remove all system caches and user caches. Then have it check all system and user preference files. Remove any preference files that are corrupt. Reboot and see if your system is working properly.

This is the third time I have entered this question and answered with my PW, etc. I have updated my IPad with IOS 7, and updated Adobe Reader with ver. 11.3.1. I cannot get any files or folders to come up when I click on Adobe, even though my Usage indica

I Have updated IPad to IOS 7.1.1, and also updated Adobe Reader to ver. 11.3.1. When I click on the Adobe icon, I get no files or folders to come up, just a blank screen. I know from my usage indicator on the IPad that I have 36 GB of PDF files resident, which I expected, but how do I access them. I had updated from IOS 5 because Adobe was crashing so often that it made it difficult to work.

If restarting the app or your iPad/iPhone does not work, we are not aware of any other ways to fix this particular problem. Uninstalling & reinstalling Adobe Reader may be the only option left. It will clean up the "inconsistent" application data. But it is not even guaranteed to fix the problem.
If you uninstall Adobe Reader (or any other iOS apps), iOS will erase all of the application data including settings/preferences and PDF documents stored locally on your iPad/iPhone.
We'd highly recommend backing up your PDF documents regularly (not just this time) so that you do not lose them when something goes wrong.
How to backup and restore PDF documents on your iPad/iPhone using iTunes
Backup your PDF documents.
Uninstall Adobe Reader.
Download and reinstall Adobe Reader from the App Store.
Alternatively, you can store your PDF documents in cloud storage (e.g. Acrobat.com, Dropbox, Google Drive), which will eliminate the need to backup local files.
Please let us know if you need further assistance.

How do I save PDF documents in Adobe Reader on my iPad?

I add files to my Adobe Reader on my iPad from Acrobat.com. They show up as recent and they disappear after a while. Contrary to what I was told on this site earlier (items don't disappear in recents unless it is to full), my documents/files do disappear. I was working on a document earlier and now 3 hours later ii's gone. I don't always have access to wireless enternet when I need to open the documents. Also,when I download (or what ever it's called when you open them up on an iPad), the notes and highlights that I did on the document have disappeared.

I apologize for misunderstanding your comment. It's easy to misunderstand what we read here and often I find that if I just ask more questions people are frustrated so I erred on the side of providing information rather than witholding it and asking more questions. If you are frustrated I apologize, but being abusive doesn't help any of us =). Everyone in these forums who is trying to help is a volunteer. I happen to be paid by Adobe to build the Reader but I volunteer in the forums during my lunch hour or extending my day to answer questions. I'm doing my best.
My understanding of our cache is limited, but it looks to me like our current Acrobat.com cache is 100 megabytes. We will start pushing files out of the cache from the least recently used forward until the cache size is less than 100MB. We don't currently have a way to explicitly mark Acrobat.com files to be saved locally. One way to achieve this would be to open the file from Adobe Reader into another app and then open it again in Adobe Reader which will place it in your Documents. Alternatively, you can use iTunes to add the files to your Documents from your Desktop after downloading them from Acrobat.com. I recognize that this is a little strange and will result in 2 copies of the document (one in the Acrobat.com cache and one in Documents) but I wanted to provide the option. I've emailed another engineer to verify my understanding of the cache and to see if she can provide a better workaround.

Error 1935 - Adobe Reader (11) - An error occurred during the installation of assembly component - Windows 7

NOT RESOLVED
It seems to be a problem with my windows installation. I will re-install at a later date since installing PDF viewing programs the only issue.
Problem:
While installing Adobe Reader XI using the install_reader11_en_mssd_aaa_aih.exe from Adobe Reader Install for all versions and AdbeRdr11000_en_US.msi from a forum post on here. Error 1935 occurs using both installers and causes the setup to fail and initiate rollback.
Additional information:
In Programs & Features list there is no adobe reader as you can see:
This is pretty much a clean install of windows on which I have installed: Adobe Flash Player (16), Steam + some games, Chrome, Skype and some Visual C++ Redistributables, .NET Framwork, Drivers for GPU, CPU, Motherboard and USB devices.
Error:
Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly component
{B708EB72-AA82-3EB7-8BB0-D845BA35C93D}.
HRESULT: 0x80070308
System:
Windows 7 x64 - installed on a SSD.
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme 4
GPU: Gigabtye - G1 Gaming GTX 970
CPU: Intel Core - i7 4770K @4.00 GHz
RAM: 16GB Kingston Hyper X (8x2)
Steps taken:
1. I have cleared the transaction log using command prompt with the following command:
fsutil resource setautoreset true C:\
Restarting the computer and trying to install Adobe Reader 11 results in the same error.
2. Restarting the computer, disabling Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and installing Adobe Reader 11 results in the same error.
3. Chrome has "allow all sites to run JavaScript" checked.
Thanks
Edit:
I have attempted to install an earlier version (10.1.4) of Adobe Reader - Same error occurs.
Edit 2:
I'm going to look for some alternatives for the mean time
Edit 2.1:
These alternative programs are failing to install as well. Multiple errors, I now assume the issue is with my windows installation.

Hi Kanker ,
Please refer to the following link and see if it helps.
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/error-1935-install-acrobat-reader.html
Let us know with your response .
Stay well.
Regards
Sukrit Dhingra

Pdfs will not open in Adobe Reader 10.1.0 with os 10.6.8

I have an iMac, Snow Leopard v. 10.6.8 and Adobe REader 10.1. When I click on a pdf to open, all I get is the QuickTime icon, which opens the 1st page only, but when I try to print even that page, it is blank.
I have tried dumping the AdobePDFViewer plugin from the Internet Plug Ins as indicated below, to no avail.
[file://localhost/Library/Internet%20Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin/]
This has been SOOOOO frustrating. When I called Adobe, they want to charge me $39.99 to talk to a technician! Since their download for the Reader is "free," I find it objectionable, to say the least, that they have the audacity to want to charge me on a "free" application program!
I'm ready to change to an alternative Reader, if their is such a thing, if anyone out there has a suggestion for that kind of program. I would really like to solve the mystery of why my Adobe pdfs won't open, however. This problem has been going on for about 2 weeks now, since August 7th.
Thanks.

Select a PDF file, CMD+I, check the Open With section, and ensure that AR is selected. If not, then select it and click on the Change All button. Alternatively, select Preview, which is my default PDF reader.

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