Adobe Acrobat Reader 2025 is nearly 300 MB install. I am not sure why they require such a bloated software for just a reader. Also 90% of the use case of Acrobat Reader is to just peacefully read a PDF document. If they applied any design thinking, the Reader mode should have the default mode.
But they don't listen. I had abandoned the use of Acrobat Reader 10 years back and had started using SumatraPDF an open source reader (https://sumatrapdfreader.org/) but, unfortunately my employer stopped allowing that software. That was only 6 MB install and even if we open 50 documents, it would use the minimum amount of memory.
I feel so sad losing access to that software on my office laptop.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader 2025 is nearly 300 MB install. I am not sure why they require such a bloated software for just a reader. Also 90% of the use case of Acrobat Reader is to just peacefully read a PDF document. If they applied any design thinking, the Reader mode should have the default mode.
But they don't listen. I had abandoned the use of Acrobat Reader 10 years back and had started using SumatraPDF an open source reader (https://sumatrapdfreader.org/) but, unfortunately my employer stopped allowing that software. That was only 6 MB install and even if we open 50 documents, it would use the minimum amount of memory.
I feel so sad losing access to that software on my office laptop.