Check out this different PDF reader / creator. It’s called “Foxit”.

We all know and use Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading PDF documents, and many of us have Adobe Acrobat for creating PDF documents. While the PDF reader is free, the full Acrobat is expensive. Add to that, Adobe has gotten worse and worse through the years with their obnoxious “updater” that hogs resources, makes your computer run slower, and wants to update all the time.

So Foxit is a real alternative.

There are others, too. Keep in mind that “PDF” stands for “Portable Data Format”. The idea is that a PDF is “portable”: that means you don’t need Microsoft Word to read a Word-created document that was saved as a PDF. All you need is a free PDF reader. You can read it in a Palm device, a BlackBerry smart phone, a web browser, and so forth.

The nice thing about Foxit is that it is very “lightweight”. That means tightly written code that doesn’t take a lot of juice to run in your computer.

Check it out!