Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.

  • Paulemeister@feddit.de
    28·
    1 year ago

    “Hate” is a strong word for my feelings towards Adobe Acrobat reader. But I really don’t like it when I start it to view a pdf, you know the thing it is designed to do, and I have a weird popup, then a toolbar on the right with tools I can’t use cause they’re premium and a toolbar on the left and a toolbar at the top underneath the standard windows toolbar. I just wanna view the pdf man (also weird snapping when you scroll over a page). Haven’t found anything nice yet that just works. I don’t want to use Edge or a browser to view them and mupdf is too light weight. Would really like an evince for windows

      • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Looks like Foxit is freeware with a subscription option for enterprise deployment packages. Not ideal.

        Maybe Okular? It’s from the KDE project and it’s on the Windows store.

        • D4gma@feddit.it
          2·
          1 year ago

          Foxit has a subscription plan if you need advance tools, it’s perfectly fine (and customizable) if you want to use the standard plan… No ads, no popups, nothing except your pdf and a lot of features you can use for free. You should give it a try, it’s really good.

          • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
            41·
            1 year ago

            Ehhh. Still proprietary. I’d rather use open source tools, even if it takes a slight functionality hit.

    • daz@feddit.de
      5·
      1 year ago

      There’s also SumatraPDF which seems pretty similar to Evince, though I don’t know the latter

    • D4gma@feddit.it
      4·
      1 year ago

      Try Sumatra, PDF24 and or Foxit Reader. There are plenty of alternatives for a pdf reader, and a lot of them are even faster than acrobat!

    • Neuropotpie@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s annoying AF. But there is an option in the settings to open as it was last closed. So open a file, minimize all those toolbars, save the file, close the file, open a file. Should be good to go.

      “Go to Edit > Preferences > Documents, and then select Remember current state of Tools pane.”