
The program may lack some of the polish of its larger brethren, but it might be all the PDF reader you need.Īn even-smaller free PDF reader is PDF2EXE Software's CoolPDF Reader, which weighs in at a modest 900KB. If small is what you're after, try the open-source Sumatra PDF Viewer, which at just over 1MB is downright lilliputian, compared to the competition.

Tracker Software Products' PDF-XChange Viewer does a good job of matching Adobe Reader's features and interface while-like Foxit Reader-taking up much less disk space (though at 15MB, PDF-XChange Viewer is almost three times as large as Foxit Reader). Foxit Reader has a lot of fans, but it's far from the only free Adobe Reader alternative.

I used Foxit Reader exclusively on my old laptop, but for some reason I switched back to Adobe Reader when I bought my new machine last spring.

I could've saved myself a lot of time and trouble if I had just stuck with Foxit Reader, the free PDF reader from Foxit Software.
