Dec 132011
 

No matter you are a customer, enterprise, governmental or educational  organization, it is necessary to read and comment on PDF documents and fill in PDF forms. Your PDF Reader shoul be:

Quick – not to wait long while to read files.
Light-weighted – to be easily deployable and not to drain system resources.
Secure – not ot infect with viruses and to be able to keep important information safe.
A Platform – so you can improve the Reader by creating especially tailored characteristics for internal use or resale.

The Foxit Reader is a lightweight and  quick PDF viewer fulled with different features which allows any PDF file to be opened, viewed and printed. Unlike another free PDF readers, Foxit Reader also contains such easy-to-use features like the possibility to add comments, fill in forms, and exchange data with social networks. Foxit Reader has a small footprint that appears on-the-fly, renders PDF files fast and uses very little memory, which is of huge importance for today’s handheld devices. This particular Reader is full of such appropriate features as easy-to-use viewing, commenting and printing that make document collaboration simple.Foxit Reader is a secure platform that insures system against malicious viruses and provides a secure and reliable digital signature verification for the exchange of electronic documents without taking risk of falsified documents.

Nov 072011
 

The embracement of PDF at dawn of its development was dilatory. Adobe Acrobat, Adobe’s application for viewing, reading and generating PDF documents, was not at free disposal; first versions of PDF did not support external hyperlinks, diminishing their value on the Internet; the bigger size of PDF files in comparison with ordinary text demanded more time for downloading over the slacker modems relevant for that time; and the rendering of PDF documents was dilatory on the less powerful computers of that time. Furthermore, PDF was competing with such formats as DjVu (still in progress), Envoy, Common Ground Digital Paper, Farallon Replica and even Adobe’s own PostScript format; in those days, PDF was mainly used in desktop publishing workflows.
Adobe soon began to distribute its Acrobat Reader (now Adobe Reader) application free of charge, and went on supporting the initial PDF, that finally turned into the de facto standard for printable papers on the web (a standard web document).
Adobe modified the specification of PDF a few times and carries on developing new specifications according to Adobe Acrobat’s new versions. There are nine versions of PDF that correspond to Acrobat releases:

* 1993 – PDF 1.0 / Acrobat 1.0
* 1994 – PDF 1.1 / Acrobat 2.0
* 1996 – PDF 1.2 / Acrobat 3.0
* 1999 – PDF 1.3 / Acrobat 4.0
* 2001 – PDF 1.4 / Acrobat 5.0
* 2003 – PDF 1.5 / Acrobat 6.0
* 2005 – PDF 1.6 / Acrobat 7.0
* 2006 – PDF 1.7 / Acrobat 8.0
* 2006 – PDF 1.7 / Acrobat 8.2
* 2008 – PDF 1.7, Adobe Extension Level 3 / Acrobat 9.0
* 2009 – PDF 1.7, Adobe Extension Level 5 / Acrobat 9.1