Reviews of Adobe Reader Lite

1. 
   GetCool

   Reviewing 9.2.0.30 (Nov 24, 2009)

   @smarterthanyou: It's not about the program being "blazing fast". If you read the description of this app up above, it makes no claims about performance. All it says is "bloat-free".
   
   As to your analogy, I have made "lite" versions of Windows XP in the past using nLite. Did it perform better than the default install? Not really. But that wasn't why I did it. I did it to remove all the extraneous features that I didn't want or need; i.e., the "bloat". It dropped my install size down from several GB to about 500 MB. Yeah, you might respond to that by saying 'well disk space is cheap", but time is not cheap. When you do a lot of imaging of your operating system partitions, it saves a *ton* of time when you have a 500-MB install vs. a several-GB install.
   
   That is what I see as the point here. This version removes all the auto-update crap, which to me is the greatest feature. I don't want to connect to the web and download Adobe's plugins, updates, spyware, etc. I don't want to have to click "Yes" or "No" or "Cancel" to popups. Yeah, you can disable auto-updates from the official version, but this comes pre-configures my way out of the box. And when you couple that with a silent installer, it works wonders for mass-deployment.
   
   TIME is the factor here. Not performance. If you don't do workstation IT and deploy hundreds of machines at a time, then you probably have no idea how valuable applications like this (and nLite/vLite) can be. Don't just go around attacking developers for no good reason.
2. 
   Banquo

   Reviewing 9.2.0.30 (Nov 21, 2009)

   Great software, much faster than 8 and this helps even more. (Oh and smarterthanyou is an idiot)
3. 
   CyberDoc999

   Reviewing 9.2.0.30 (Oct 14, 2009)

   this is very nice !
   smarterthanyou is dumber-than-dumb ....
4. 
   Vexii

   Reviewing 9.2.0.30 (Oct 14, 2009)

   Very nice. Thanks for another lite version.
5. 
   smarterthanyou

   Reviewing 9.2.0.30 (Oct 14, 2009)

   What a waste of time. Sounds like somebody has way too much time on their hands. This is about as pointless as wasting time creating a lite version of Windows XP or Windows 7, both of which are already blazing fast, like the original version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is. Seriously, if your computer can't run the full Adobe Reader 9.1 software at a decent speed then stop being such a cheapskate and buy a new computer. You can't have fast performance from any software if your WinXP machine only has 256MB or less of RAM.

Discuss Adobe Reader Lite

1. May 28, 2009 - 7:39 AM
   Somnambulator

   Foxit reader is not always 100% compatible with advnaced pdf features like interactive forms and application-launching, embedded links. for Joe PC user it might be fine for businesses Reader is an absolute must. 9.x is a LOT faster than 8 and is close to the speed of Foxit even with the "speedlauncher" disabled.
2. May 27, 2009 - 4:59 PM
   copenhaus