Alternate pdf reader for lastest adobe PDF 1.7

[allen2]

Today i came across a pdf which couldn't be read correctly with:

- lastest pdf xchange viewer : crashing the app

- lastest sumutrapdf, foxit reader, coolpdf, and a few open sources one wil give this result:

To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade

to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html

Does someone know of a good and small( 30MB or less, i don't want adobe reader as it take to much space) pdf reader with full pdf 1.7 format support ?

In the end i found nuance PDF reader which seem to do the job but is a litte bigger (32MB) than what i wished.

Edited March 21, 2011 by allen2

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

Did you come across this one? http://mupdf.com/ I haven't used it, but it claims to have 1.7 support and the (.zip) download is about 7.5MB.

Cheers

[allen2]

Thanks for the reply but yes i tried mupdf and it didn't handle the pdf file it displayed the same result the other given.

[CoffeeFiend]

I have yet to find an alternate PDF reader that fully supports PDFs. All of them seem not to support some features (later versions of PDF, or not working with 3D PDFs, or not being able to turn layers on or off, or the colors being messed up on CMYK PDFs or what have you). That, and a host of other annoying issues (fonts looking like crap, printing-via-bmp-file-generation, etc). I've tried lots of them (Foxit, PDF-Xchange, Sumatra, the one from Google Chrome, etc) and the only one that "just works" is still Adobe's.

If you care about opening plain vanilla PDFs on an older computer then the alternative options might be useful. If you need more advanced documents to JustWork^TM then Adobe Reader is pretty much the only game in town.

[Ponch]

Adobe Reader "lite" says it's 23Meg. I'm not sure what it's worth or what is removed but you can see some reviews here.

[krt47]

where can I find the lastest version of adobe pdf reader.msi?

[Ponch]

Google. http://www.klaus-hartnegg.de/gpo/msi_acroread.html