Adobe Acrobat reader question

[ShadownINja]

Is it possible to download it for a stand-alone machine? I can't easily access the internet with it so want to take the setup file on a SD card and install it that way. Any thoughts?

[K50 DEL]

Yes, you can do that (I do every install that way as having only a satellite internet connection means that downloading it each time is very slow!)

You can downlad the full .exe from here

http://www.softwarepatch.com/graphics/acrobat-read...

[ShadownINja]

Thanks. Any thoughts on Foxit reader?

Ended up trying it: seems ok and not bloated like Acrobat.

Edited by ShadownINja on Monday 12th April 12:47

[DrTre]

Foxit doesn't (didn't?) have support for bookmarks etc...

[ShadownINja]

DrTre said:

Foxit doesn't (didn't?) have support for bookmarks etc...

Ah, never use them.

[LordGrover]

I don't like downloading from third party sites - may be perfectly fine but I'd rather not take the chance.
You can download the full install direct from adobe anyway: click.

[was8v]

Foxit reader much more lightweight and faster than the horrible acrobat reader.

Recommended here.

[ShadownINja]

Thanks and thanks. Have updated my main PC and old PC.

[pdV6]

Too late, but just adding support for FoxIt. We even use it commercially in products at work now.

[DrTre]

ShadownINja said:

DrTre said:

Foxit doesn't (didn't?) have support for bookmarks etc...

Ah, never use them.

Neither do I, hence I use Foxit

[ShadownINja]

Ah.

[TurricanII]

+1 for Foxit. But it can not handle Acrobat PDF forms properly. Also Foxit works better on a terminal server or when you are remote controlling your work PC from home, whereas Acrobat had a habit of showing black blocks over the text making it unreadable.

[ShadownINja]

Slightly off-topic question but is there a way of copying text in a document when it's locked from copying. Locked text means I can't get my Hal text reader to read the document out loud.

Edited by ShadownINja on Wednesday 14th April 21:18

[TurricanII]

ShadownINja said:

Slightly off-topic question but is there a way of copying text in a document when it's locked from copying. Locked text means I can't get my Hal text reader to read the document out loud.

Edited by ShadownINja on Wednesday 14th April 21:18

I would install Microsoft's text printer driver and print to that, which allows you to save it as a text file. If printing the doc is not disabled. Also I would install PDF creator and print it to TIFF then OCR this with Microsoft Office Document Imaging.

[ShadownINja]

TurricanII said:

I would install Microsoft's text printer driver and print to that, which allows you to save it as a text file. If printing the doc is not disabled. Also I would install PDF creator and print it to TIFF then OCR this with Microsoft Office Document Imaging.

Thanks. That might work (printing to text).

Edit: created unreadable .prn files. Any thoughts?

Edited by ShadownINja on Thursday 15th April 00:15

[TurricanII]

Did you install the Microsoft text printer and print to that, or did you just print to your normal printer but tick the box to print to file? I would try OCR instead!

[ShadownINja]

TurricanII said:

Did you install the Microsoft text printer and print to that, or did you just print to your normal printer but tick the box to print to file? I would try OCR instead!

Installed the text printer driver, then printed to file. Have you tried it? How do you open the .prn file?

[LordGrover]

What about printing to MS XPS Doc?



(Have no idea really, don't have access to 1. locked pdf or 2. text to voice software.)

[ShadownINja]

LordGrover said:

What about printing to MS XPS Doc?



(Have no idea really, don't have access to 1. locked pdf or 2. text to voice software.)

Just try printing to a text file from any pdf or Word doc.