

In contrast, my preferred PDF Reader, Sumatra, is 8MB and the PDF viewer embedded in the Chrome browser is 4MB. The software was installed to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 11.0 which occupies 116 megabytes of hard drive space (this was a 32 bit copy of Windows 8). Following the prompts however, you download a 1MB pre-installer called "install_reader11_en_mssd_aaa_aih.exe" and you never see or deal with the main 48MB installer.

The software was downloaded from the official location, /reader which said that the download was 48MB. On a Windows 8 machine that had no prior versions of the Adobe Reader, I did a fresh install of the latest edition, released last month, version 11.0.06. But, while researching the new issue, I ran across yet another reason not to like the software: it consumes mass quantities of hard drive space, at least on Windows. Yesterday I found a new reason not to like it, which I expect will be the next Defensive Computing blog. It is also a good idea to go back into ‘Manage Certificates’ setting and ensure that you have trusted every US Government Certificate by selecting ‘edit’ from the three dots corresponding the certificates.I'll come clean right off the bat: I don't like the Adobe PDF Reader. Be sure to select all three trust settings during the import. NOTE: Download and Install the files in this order:

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