what’s with adobe acrobat reader – 27 mb? for a reader?

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hi,
tried to download the latest acrobat reader and it is a whopping 27mb!!!
the last version i think was only 5-6 mb?
it is just a reader!!! the file size is bigger than my CAD software download…
gee…i just upgraded my hd to 120 gb/512 mb ram… thought that it would be
enough for my softwares and here comes the next versions of softwares and
it is going to eat up all my space and memory…
you just can’t keep up with the requirements anymore!!!

Ridiculous isn’t it? Absolute Bloatware.

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hi,
tried to download the latest acrobat reader and it is a whopping 27mb!!!
the last version i think was only 5-6 mb?

I went back to version 5 at work, There are several issues I can’t stand with 6 plus:

1. The search frame takes up too much screen real-estate on small monitors. The document is unreadable with search open.

2. Search always starts from the beginning, Older versions would let you search from the current page.

3. In version 6, if you have PDF’s open in web browser windows, and a local PDF open in the reader, you can’t close the reader window without also closing all the browser ones as well. This leaves the taskbar cluttered with an addtional program entry. In V5, you could close the stand alone reader while keeping the browser documents,.

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tried to download the latest acrobat reader and it is a whopping 27mb!!!

Easy, they split their application up into heaps of smaller parts. Each of these parts probably includes 200-300k of standard code, duplicated for every part.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

"Nicholas Sherlock" wrote in message

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tried to download the latest acrobat reader and it is a whopping 27mb!!!

Easy, they split their application up into heaps of smaller parts. Each of these parts probably includes 200-300k of standard code, duplicated for every part.

What sense does that make?

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"Nicholas Sherlock" wrote in message

wrote:

tried to download the latest acrobat reader and it is a whopping 27mb!!!

Easy, they split their application up into heaps of smaller parts. Each of these parts probably includes 200-300k of standard code, duplicated for every part.

What sense does that make?

I don’t think that’s accurate, or has anything to do with Acrobat’s bloat. It has more to do with Abobe (in usual fashion) getting their foot in the door with a proprietary standard, and trying to pry it open a bit further with each successive version of Acrobat.

Don’t forget the roots of Acrobat. It was foisted upon us by a tiny group of diehard unix and Apple propeller heads who needed platform transparency to communicate with the 90+% of the world who use Windows. If it weren’t for these boobs Acrobat would have long since died the death it deserves.

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I don’t think that’s accurate, or has anything to do with Acrobat’s bloat. It has more to do with Abobe (in usual fashion) getting their foot in the door with a proprietary standard, and trying to pry it open a bit further with each successive version of Acrobat.

But what do they have to gain with bloated code?

Don’t forget the roots of Acrobat. It was foisted upon us by a tiny group of diehard unix and Apple propeller heads who needed platform transparency to communicate with the 90+% of the world who use Windows. If it weren’t for these boobs Acrobat would have long since died the death it deserves.

That’s just silly.

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tried to download the latest acrobat reader and it is a whopping 27mb!!!

Easy, they split their application up into heaps of smaller parts. Each of these parts probably includes 200-300k of standard code, duplicated for every part.

What sense does that make?

It allows the application to be easily extended by adding more modules.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

"Nicholas Sherlock" wrote in message

What sense does that make?

It allows the application to be easily extended by adding more modules.

In "my day" we didn’t repeat the code. Called routines shared memory and pspace.

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"Nicholas Sherlock" wrote in message

What sense does that make?

It allows the application to be easily extended by adding more modules.

In "my day" we didn’t repeat the code. Called routines shared memory and pspace.

Duplicated code was only my conjecture, I don’t know if Adobe really shares code or not. Shared code has one disadvantage, it makes your modules have complex dependencies on other modules. With the trend towards increasing hard drive space and bandwidth, Adobe may have decided that the increased file size was worth avoiding dependency hell.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

With the trend
towards increasing hard drive space and bandwidth, Adobe may have decided that the increased file size was worth avoiding dependency hell.
Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

Sorta like Windows.

On 18 Nov 2005 20:22:59 -0800, wrote:

hi,
tried to download the latest acrobat reader and it is a whopping 27mb!!!
the last version i think was only 5-6 mb?
it is just a reader!!! the file size is bigger than my CAD software download…
gee…i just upgraded my hd to 120 gb/512 mb ram… thought that it would be
enough for my softwares and here comes the next versions of softwares and
it is going to eat up all my space and memory…
you just can’t keep up with the requirements anymore!!!

Well at least they have given up the idea of charging for the reader. They tried that originally. Hate to think what 27 MB might cost if they had kept that business model except they would not be producting Acrobat by now.

John