A free reader for Windows, FoxIt is quick With a light footprint, the reader won't slow down your computer or require much memory to function.
But you might not need it to do any more than that - read - which helps to explain why FoxIt, which doesn't allow PDF creation, earned the most votes. (Mac's built-in Preview, PDF-XChange and Nitro PDF were the three other tools included in the survey.)īecause PDFs are the standard for electronic document sharing and distribution, it's critical to have a functional reader on any computer that you use. While Adobe Acrobat came in a close second with 19.7 percent of the vote, a full one-fourth of votes went to FoxIt. A: As a long-time Adobe Acrobat user, I was shocked to find that, when Lifehacker asked its readers to vote for their favorite PDF tool, most of them chose FoxIt.
