A Faster PDF Reader

PDF (Portable Document Format) file has pretty much become the de facto standard for printable documents. It is highly likely that at some point you would have installed a PDF reader because of the fact that more and more people and businesses are sharing documents using PDF files.

PDF standard was created by Adobe Systems. And they offer a free download for a PDF reader called the Adobe Reader. At the same time, there are other free third party PDF reader that one can use. Most websites provide a link to the Adobe Reader download whenever they make available PDF documents. The Adobe Reader works fine for most people. But for the impatients, like myself, I just don't quite like the fact how slow it takes to load up Adobe Reader whenever you want to read a PDF file. That is because Adobe Reader takes a longer time to start, being a bigger program.

There is an alternative for those of you who like a faster loading of PDF files when viewing and only need a basic reading functionality. Foxit PDF reader, not only is small (2.1MB download size compared to Adobe Reader 22MB), and it is much faster. That means you get an almost instant viewing of your PDF file, without having to watch the program loading itself like the Adobe Reader.