🚀 go-pugleaf

TX to both Don & Bob P;

I will certainly try your recommendations....
Frankly I would love nothing more than to rip the adobe-bloat-reader
off my system forever! ;-)

Bob

On May 1, 4:56 pm, "Don Schmidt" <Don Engin...@PNB.Retired_1987>
wrote:
> If you would like to try an outstanding PDF Reader/Viewer give PDF Xchange
> Viewer a try;
>
> http://www.docu-track.com/
>
> There are two versions; Free and the Pro version at a modest cost.
>
> --
> Don
> Vancouver, USA
>
> <bobg.h...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:40072eb2-482b-4329-b1d3-c4a14dd17b5b@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > running acrobat reader v8; but I've had this problem with ALL versions
> > since 6.
> > I've had this problem on win98, win2k, and winXP.
>
> > This is a common occurrence - it happens frequently.
>
> > I try to do a text search on a PDF, and the search simply NEVER
> > FINISHES!!!
> > This is extremely frustrating. When this happens I usually open the
> > PDF under acrobat reader v5, and i can search OK. I'm tired of doing
> > this.
>
> > as an example - this document:
> >http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/netapp_esx_best_practices_wh...
>
> > if I try running a search, the search goes to page 10 of 41, and
> > simply hangs. it NEVER recovers, or shows me any hits. I'm really
> > curious to know how a simple search can get so screwed up....
>
> > Failing that -
> > I'm beginning to think that maybe there's a third party PDF reader,
> > that doesn't have so much "bloat" in it, that might work better - or -
> > simply work.  Does anyone know what one of these might be?
>
> > TIA - Bob