FrizzleFry wrote:...and the installer is six times larger than the viewer installer.
Yeah, silly, but 'tis the done-thing these days. They also centralise both the x64 and x86 versions into DLL packages (and always include both) instead of using separate executables - exactly why they do this, I can't say, but it probably makes their platform scaling development simpler in the long run. The dev's love to use that kind of wonky phraseology whenever people ask simple questions.
Also, 12MB of that is shell-extensions. Ironically though, for the size, it actually executes (renders) faster than the plain viewer ever did, but it has had more development. Again though, mostly it's just including functionality that most people can just ignore. Which, yes, is a polite way of saying "bloat", but those are the breaks. Did they ever have a portable version?
I've been using it as a primary viewer for about a year and never even think about it. It simply just does everything I want a PDF viewer to do - without any of the drawbacks that the other bloated parties always brought to the table.
Tuxman wrote:If it doesn't set the bar high to do what it should, why do so many applications which claim to be "viewers" fail trying to jump over it?
Just because Foxit Reader (which was never any good to begin with given the last decade) obviously broke your heart years ago, is no reason to carry a grudge against girls with the same hair colour.
But really, given how long it's been in development, your Sumatra man couldn't conceive of more than 4 or 5 lousy options? He makes Nikos look downright anaemic!
Tuxman wrote:I can surely advise you to never try and find the edge cases for GCC unless you're ready for a new quality of bitterness. LLVM is more inviting in so many cases.
As long as GCC covers stuff that I can't ever hope to do for myself, and has a community that knows it inside and out, foibles and all, I won't have the temerity to complain. I'm more suspicious of LLVM being co-oped (eventually) by Apple, rather than them "getting physical" as they seem to have become recently. If you really want specialised quality (with slightly erratic non-Intel CPU support), look at the price of the Intel C++ Compiler. And choke on Cheerio's.
Complaining about edge-cases is the same as thinking that Prime95 is some kind of
heat-virus merely because it stresses with AVX.
Complete esoterica to the vast majority of users.
Tuxman wrote:...in a time of HTML browser malware explosions? Some men like to watch the world burn...
What is it with the constant fear mongering going on these days? People see evil under every little thing and do everything short of pulling their eyes out to convince everyone else that the reports they navel-gaze on in the online press are both true and relevant in the face of practical experience to the contrary? Doubt is what gets you an education. Fear is, apparently, what makes you hip these days. Neither, from my observation, is of any use when cyber-orientated.
Plenty of solutions for encrypted email. Exactly why anyone has the hubris to think that their correspondence is of any importance to anyone
other than their recipients is a little weird, but hey... paranoia wouldn't be paranoia without a few aliens to point at...
Tuxman wrote:Some people drive a Bentley instead of an old Ford. Do they have a car fetish or do they want to have some comfort while driving?
Frankly, yes, if you drive a Bentley you've got a car fetish (and probably a severe case of gout). No other explanation for it. Once upon a time, the Rolls Phantom was considered comfortable. And besides, everyone knows that Ford is only good for Muscle Cars, and if you claimed a Mustang was in any way comfortable, you'd be branded a heretic just for even considering that such a car
should be comfortable in the first place! That's not a fetish, that's just the way it is.
Both are for posers, at the end of the day.