Adobe Reader Lite is a bloat-free version of the PDF viewer, Adobe Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Rated 50/50 by Vexii at Oct 14, 2009
Very nice. Thanks for another lite version.
Rated 10/50 by smarterthanyou at Oct 14, 2009
What a waste of time. Sounds like somebody has way too much time on their hands. This is about as pointless as wasting time creating a lite version of Windows XP or Windows 7, both of which are already blazing fast, like the original version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is. Seriously, if your computer can't run the full Adobe Reader 9.1 software at a decent speed then stop being such a cheapskate and buy a new computer. You can't have fast performance from any software if your WinXP machine only has 256MB or less of RAM.
Rated 50/50 by CyberDoc999 at Oct 14, 2009
this is very nice ! smarterthanyou is dumber-than-dumb ....
Rated 50/50 by Banquo at Nov 21, 2009
Great software, much faster than 8 and this helps even more. (Oh and smarterthanyou is an idiot)
Rated 50/50 by GetCool at Nov 24, 2009
@smarterthanyou: It's not about the program being "blazing fast". If you read the description of this app up above, it makes no claims about performance. All it says is "bloat-free". As to your analogy, I have made "lite" versions of Windows XP in the past using nLite. Did it perform better than the default install? Not really. But that wasn't why I did it. I did it to remove all the extraneous features that I didn't want or need; i.e., the "bloat". It dropped my install size down from several GB to about 500 MB. Yeah, you might respond to that by saying 'well disk space is cheap", but time is not cheap. When you do a lot of imaging of your operating system partitions, it saves a *ton* of time when you have a 500-MB install vs. a several-GB install. That is what I see as the point here. This version removes all the auto-update crap, which to me is the greatest feature. I don't want to connect to the web and download Adobe's plugins, updates, spyware, etc. I don't want to have to click "Yes" or "No" or "Cancel" to popups. Yeah, you can disable auto-updates from the official version, but this comes pre-configures my way out of the box. And when you couple that with a silent installer, it works wonders for mass-deployment. TIME is the factor here. Not performance. If you don't do workstation IT and deploy hundreds of machines at a time, then you probably have no idea how valuable applications like this (and nLite/vLite) can be. Don't just go around attacking developers for no good reason.
Rated 50/50 by Second Shadow at Jan 18, 2010
Great! Thanks for yet another Lite version
Rated 20/50 by ZenoLabs at Jan 18, 2010
23 MB file for a "lite" viewer? Are you kidding? Why should I use this one when I can have a 4 MB portable freeware like PDF-XCHANGE VIEWER that works perfectly?
Rated 10/50 by emanresU deriseD at Jan 19, 2010
GetCool is defending Adobe Reader Lite (and calling the packager a "developer", no less), insinuating that he deploys it widely. That's funny, since Adobe Reader Lite is illegal, quite literally, since it violates the Adobe license and copyrights. You deploy illegal software? And you're on a soapbox?
Rated 50/50 by nugro at Jan 19, 2010
Fast and smooth, but I have one problem : Can somebody help me how to get continuous page on full screen mode? Thanks...
Rated 50/50 by Duracell at Jan 30, 2010
This looks extremely useful to me. I assume that the features that are disabled or turn off can be turned on individually if I need them via Readers own UI, but could you please confirm? It also seems that the download is only hosted on rapidshare. I've been trying to download it for a long time, but can't get through (don't have an account). Is rapidshare the only place to download this from?
Rated 50/50 by gozzak at Mar 3, 2010
GetCool - you are 100% on the mark. I DESPISE Adobe reader and Flash Player with a passion. They are bloated, inneficiant, flakey software. But they are absolutely vital. I`ve tried the Acrobat alternatives, but they just arent as good. Same issue with Sun Java and iTunes. ITunes wrecks a PCs performance and installed malware like Bonjur, and Sun Java is the most bloated software ever written (I think it`s up to 80MB+ now). Fortunatley WinAMP can now do most of what iTunes does without wrecking a PC. No alternative to Java. I also noticed there is a new verion of Adobe Reader - 9.3.1 that has major security updates ??? If no one posts a "Lite" version, I will install it over the top of Lite 9.3.0.30 soon
Rated 10/50 by Hilbert at Oct 11, 2010
I tried yesterday to download Adobe Acrobat Lite. NO LUCK, the links just go round in circles. Same again today. If I’ve to spend more than 500ms trying to find a workable link then forget it, I’ve much better things to do. Adobe’s idea of sending users on an extended ‘treasure’ hunt just for a copy Adobe Reader has to be some kind of sick joke. As it is, the Adobe Reader is already the pits—has been so for years. (Even when one has the Reader it’s about as boring as trying to figure out some obscure setting in that other bottom-of-the-barrel-dirge—the Gimp.) I’ve moved on already.
Rated 50/50 by sweathog at Jan 30, 2011
@Hilbert. This is not a software version published by Adobe. If you had taken the time to read the publisher information right above your post you would have seen that this version is made by XhmikosR. It's amazing how many people seem confused over the benefits of this version of Adobe Reader Lite and just give a knee jerk reaction that it’s a waste of time, when in fact they are massively wasting their time installing the official version. Read GetCool's review or Second Shadow's further down if you don't "get" it. XhmikosR had done Windows users a massive public service taking all the crap out of Adobe's "official" Reader installer, Unfortunately Adobe shut him down so they can continue to peddle the crappy bloated version, unfettered.
Rated 30/50 by olivi78 at Mar 1, 2011
I prefer PDF-XChange. For my opinion it's the best.
Rated 20/50 by ipenzey at Mar 9, 2011
I used Adobe for long time. But now I have PDF-XChange and can say that it's excellent product with very complete and useful interface.
Rated 50/50 by theidealword at Aug 15, 2011
This is a very good software. And I use it frequently.