[sdiy] Advice for people reading .pdf's...

[Hallvard Tangeraas]

On 11/3/07 22:27, Bob Weigel wrote:
> Anyway..there is a program  called "Foxit Reader 2.0".  Delete bloated 
> pig adobe acrobat.  Install that.  A couple of us have tried it and it 
> works flawlessly and loads much faster since it's way more compact.  
> It loads the file that crashed adobe just fine. -Bob 

OpenOffice is a free Micro$oft Office replacement and has already been 
mentioned (for Mac there's a more native version of OpenOffice called 
NeoOffice, which is also free) which can be used to read/write Word files.

As for reading PDF files I have a plugin for my browser which lets me 
view PDFs right there, in a browser window! It only works with PPC Macs, 
but any browser except Internet Exploder.. eh, I mean Explorer ;-)
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

The same author has made a plugin which allows you to view Word files 
directly in the web browser (again PPC Macs only and any browser except 
Internet Explorer): http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginword/
That saves you having to start OpenOffice/NeoOffice/Word etc. each time 
you want to read a Word file online. Unfortunately some of the 
formatting sometimes gets lost, but in that case you'll just view the 
file in OpenOffice etc.
Sorry I don't know of any Windows equivelant plugins, although I'm sure 
something like that is available for Windows as well.

Hallvard