|
Answer» I'm somewhat confused -
Is there a difference between Adobe Reader and Acrobat Reader for PDF files?
I just updated to Adobe Reader 8 and and thought I'd update Acrobat 5 as well. To check what I was about I opened Acrobat but the screen froze on the "about Acrobat" opening page, so I shut down and rebooted and decided to uninstall Acrobat and start afresh. Now my efforts to find and download the latest version of Acrobat seem to lead me to Adobe Reader, so I'm wondering if that has replaced Acrobat?? Do I need both?
I have Windows XP SP2 and use Firefox mainly.Adobe Reader is mainly for viewing PDF files.
Adobe Acrobat is for creating and authoring PDF files.
If you only need to be able to view PDFs I would strongly suggest you ditch Adobe Reader/Acrobat altogether and try Foxit Reader instead. It is free and uses fewer RESOURCES than Adobe Reader. You'll notice that PDF files open a lot faster in Foxit compared to Adobe Reader.Thanks for explanation, Deerpark.
I only need to view files so I've taken your advice and uninstalled Adobe and have now GOT Foxit Reader 2.2 downloaded ok.
One curious thing - I mentioned in my original post that the "about Acrobat" page froze (the information window's text scrolled up continually, but I couldn't exit the page, and got no response from ANYWHERE "clickable"). I had to switch off to escape. Well, exactly the same thing has happened with the Foxit "about" page. Everything else seems ok. Any ideas why this should happen?You should be able to exit the about window by clicking anywhere in the about window. Clicking anywhere else in the Foxit window will not do anything. Do the about window not disappear if you click it?Thanks once again, Deerpark.
That is the answer, of course.
I feel such a prat.Ahh don't worry about it, it happens to the best of us.
But good to hear you're all sorted now. Quote from: silkie on January 09, 2008, 10:22:48 AM I'm somewhat confused -
Is there a difference between Adobe Reader and Acrobat Reader for PDF files?
I just updated to Adobe Reader 8 and and thought I'd update Acrobat 5 as well. To check what I was about I opened Acrobat but the screen froze on the "about Acrobat" opening page, so I shut down and rebooted and decided to uninstall Acrobat and start afresh. Now my efforts to find and download the latest version of Acrobat seem to lead me to Adobe Reader, so I'm wondering if that has replaced Acrobat?? Do I need both?
I have Windows XP SP2 and use Firefox mainly.
Just a little more info on your original question. Adobe Reader is the free PDF reader. Adobe Acrobat is the PDF creation SOFTWARE and it's not free. I think what you had installed was actually two version of the reader, version 5 and version 8. Version 5 was called Adobe Acrobat Reader. Later versions of the reader were simply called Adobe Reader. The word Acrobat was removed from the title of the reader, most likely to avoid confusion with the Adobe Acrobat, the PDF creation software.
In my opinion, you could have just uninstalled the old version 5 and kept version 8. But, Foxit is fine. Thanks for further info, soybean.
You must be right about the two versions - that's what threw me when I checked them out.
Foxit is just fine for me and I'll stick with that.
|
