From: "Noel Paton"

| "David H. Lipman" wrote in message
| ...
From: "Noel Paton"

| OK - just d/l'd and installed Foxit 3.0
| If you don't let it install the Ask Toolbar, then it won't let you use
| @typewriter tools, Text viewer, and Text Converter@ - whatever they are.
| Since I've never heard of them until now, and can't see what earthly use
| they'd be to me for reading PDF files, then I don't care about about not
| having them.
| For god's sake, David - it's not as if Foxit is disabling the ability to
| read PDF files!!!!
| What I do mind more is that they try and sneak a quick install of eBay
links
| after you've already dis/allowed the Ask ones.

The Typewriter tool allows you to literally type into fields.

This if you have a non-editable PDF form you can use the Typewriter Tool
to place your
text in the desired fields.

{ I personally would try to use Acrobat and LifeCycle Designer to make the
form editable
such that the form and data can be saved with Adobe Reader }.



| Since there are very few instances where I can think I'd need that facility,
| then I can do without it - and people who create forms shouldn't be using
| non-editable formats for them!


Noel, that's great for you.

However I can find hundereds of non-fillable PDF forms on the web where the Typewriter
tool fills the niche very well.

As for me, I work with PDF all the time. I do all our office forms in Adobe. I even scan
forms into PDF format and then use LifeCycle Designer to make them editable forms.

Back to the point of this...

The latest distribution of FoxIt has gone adware. They want to bundle Ask Toolbar and
will cripple FoxIt if you don't install it. That's the point.

I will note that you can install FoxIt and the Ask Tolbar and then disable and remove the
Ask Bar BHO and have a full functioning FoxIt Reader.


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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