I know most people use Adobe Acrobat . . . it’s all over the place. With the advent of CM/ECF filing, Adobe is probably the most important piece of software on your computer after word processing, petition preparation and e-mail. But the darn thing is huge, clunky, and opening a PDF to read it can take forever.
Enter Foxit, a pretty nifty PDF viewer. It’s fast, small enough to carry around on a key drive, and free. When I was in college we used to say that the best beer is free beer. I now say on a regular basis that the best software is free software. So long as it works, that is.
Foxit Reader 2.0 includes an interactive form filler, on-demand download of add-ons and upgrades, Javascript support, improved printing speed, and much more. This little nugget of software is a mere 1.5 MB, and it opens PDF documents like a NASCAR driver with too much caffeine in his system.
Draw graphics, highline text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document. Convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file. Go crazy, do it all. Download Foxit.
