[Ann Drysdale]

New laptop. Windows 10. Shellshock.

I'm managing - just. I'm amazed at how much drag-and-drop features in the file-handling (quite like old times) but there's a PDF reader installed called Foxit which seems to be the default opener-upper, though Adobe is on the Apps list. (see me - I've realised that what were hitherto Programs are now Apps!).

I'd never heard of Foxit but gather from much fearful research that it is quite widely used in the States, so can anyone give me a steer on whether to go with it or revert to Adobe, which has always worked well for me?

[Roger Slater]

If your only objective is to read pdf files, then I don't think it matters very much. Just use whatever opens the fastest. If you want to be able to create pdf files, Adobe is probably the best but I believe it is rather expensive compared to Foxit and Nuance. Is Foxit just a temporary license, or do you get to keep it forever?

[Jayne Osborn]

If you're still using Word you can save files as a pdf. If you want to read pdfs then Adobe Reader will do you.

I'm no expert in these matters but that's what I do, Annie, FWIW.

Jayne

[Ann Drysdale]

This got posted twice - not sure how that happened. Blame Foxit?

[Ann Drysdale]

Bob, Foxit was in the virtual box with Windows 10. I had never seen or heard of it before. I was curious, saying to myself, like Groucho in Double Dynamite "Why not? It comes with the lunch..."

But since PDF files are the final stage of proof-correction and the liminal moment of impending publication, I want to do my best by them when they arrive.

Also, Foxit has rechristened all my saved PDF files with its little brown tile and I am a bit miffed by its presumption. I thought it might be an extension of Firefox (which I have opted-for over the unknown Edge) but seemingly not, and that name seems like asking for trouble.

Adobe is there in the list of "Apps" (I can't get over the change of start-menu terminology!) and I wonder about trying to (re)establish it as my reader of choice. I shall continue my researches.

Thanks, Jayne. Your approach was mine heretofore, this bard having long been in fealty to Adobe, but you need to know that I am standing now like Stout Cortez on the "edge" of an unknown ocean, and I was hoping for a bit of wild surmise...