Adobe Acrobat is practically unusable. The constant pop-ups for Acrobat Pro only seem to be getting worse, & now Adobe is trying to bully me into using “AI Assistant.” Any recommendations for a simple, feature-poor Windows PDF reader? I don’t need any bells or whistles—just show me my documents!
@drewbelf You can use your browser as a PDF reader. Right-click on the document, click "open with..." and select the browser. You can set it to do this by default, but I don't have Windows in front of me and forget the details. It was my setup when I used Windows.
@drewbelf We used another PDF reader on Windows 10 years ago, and I think it even was a open source project, but I forget what it was. It worked very well. Libre…something(?) idk
@Archimage No, it was a stand alone PDF app, I might have confused the name, because we actually did have LibreOffice on our machines also… I found one called FoxIt, it might have been that. I really don’t remember.
@JohnBrady oh good idea. I occasionally open recently downloaded PDFs in my browser, but hadn't considered using it by default. I guess one feature I do want is a sidebar displaying the table of contents (if applicable)—I sometimes end up reading some long PDFs & they can be tough to navigate if just scrolling. I'm not sure whether a browser has such a sidebar
@odd I'd love something open source, though there doesn't seem to be a ton out there for PDF readers. I do use LibreOffice when I have to work with Word documents
@jonah oh interesting—thanks for sharing. I've been using Zotero for annotating PDFs, but this has some attractive options too
@drewbelf It was what I used on a Chrome tablet w/ stylus. Zotero never quite worked for me on Android Tablet. I've switched to a reMarkable and more recently am trying Scribe
@jonah I never found a good way to use Zotero on Android, though I do have a remarkable tablet which I use fairly often. I don't think I've heard of Scribe
@drewbelf scribe is amazon competition to Remarkable; inferior (infuriating) software, but much better hardware. Backlit
@jonah oh, that's right. That software/hardware mismatch is frustrating. I don't mind the Remarkable's hardware, though I don't have the Scribe to compare to
