Evil Adobe (2)

[alitalf]

Thanks to everyone for the helpful comments. I followed the suggestions to install Foxit, and the one for the Firefox extension.

Uninstalling Adobe Reader was apparently easy enough, but it did not remove a number of registry entries. I used a registry cleanup tool to find them (did I get them all I wonder?).

The computer has not yet become unresponsive, except for MS Word, which takes an age to save or open if there are any network drives mapped. Yes, I know, MS say I should unmap network drives to overcome this, but WTF? Only M$ Office queries the network for minutes between every menu click changing directories if any mapped drive is disconnected. Open Office doesn't do this, so I only use MS Word if cornered and forced to, and the other computers don't even have it installed (far too expensive).

Comments

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to try Foxit. Adobe is OK on my desktop (quite probably because I never allow it to update!) but it's a pain on my PDA. This is because it refuses to adapt the text to the size of the screen; it's supposed to, but it doesn't. The only time a whole page shows on the screen, it's unreadable.

Maybe Foxit will work properly...

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

You might be disappointed. There is a good chance that it is a badly created PDF file that is to blame, rather than the reader. However, Foxit might cope better.

[(Anonymous)]

I have several pdf's on the handheld, and it's the same with all of them. It could be the Adobe file that's corrupt.

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

Thatw as me... Duh!