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    Alternatives to Adobe 8 pro ?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by martinmach, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    I am using adobe acrobat 8 pro on a thinkpad T500, now i am regretting this purchase. It crashes nearly 20 times for every hour of working. I am a student and use it primarily to just write sticky notes, highlight text on Pdf lecture notes. the worst thing is that for every crash, i have to open 4-5 pdfs and find that some of my comments are gone. It uses about 49% of a single core and still seems to be not having enough.

    Anybody using this software and facing same problems? are there any alternative software preferably open source that can enable me to write sticky notes, highlight text. i dont even need to modify the actual text.
     
    martinmach, Oct 21, 2009
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    Yeah man. Something is up. I use Adobe 8 Pro also, and I can't recall if it ever crashed on me.

    Foxit is a good program though. If Adobe 8 wasn't free in my case, I'd be using that piece.
     
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  4. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I think if it constantly crashes something is wrong with it.
     
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    Signal2Noise Über-geek.

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    OP: Have you contacted Adobe Customer Support?
     
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    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    Usually I'd say watch out for oddball plugin for the reader, but then I thought about it. What are the chances this guy has plugins for his reader...
     
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  7. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    It was a clean install. i did not modify it in any way. i have a vista ultimate as my other OS , i face the same problems in it

    @Signal2Noise: Is adobe customer care any good? i read some bad comments about their service, but i will mail them for sure now.
     
    martinmach, Oct 22, 2009
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  8. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes i have allowed it to update. this problem is not in one operating system, i encounter this on a clean install of windows 7
     
    martinmach, Oct 22, 2009
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    evernote, one note, etc, etc.

    Acrobat Pro is pretty much overkill for note taking......
     
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  10. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    do you use sticky notes and highlight tool in combination?
     
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  11. surfasb

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    It can be handy, rather than importing every PDF in.
     
    surfasb, Oct 22, 2009
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