Adobe Reader Offline Installers

The easy way to download an Adobe Reader standalone installer for offline use is to get it from Adobe FTP site. And then choose your OS, your desired Adobe version, your language and then download.

Note that sometimes browsing/accessing to the Adobe ftp site is a bit slow.

As of today, the current version is still Adobe Reader 10 (as known as Adobe Reader X). The followings are some links for Adobe Reader v10.0.0 in some languages used on Windows.

• English - United States, also for United Kingdom
• Traditional Chinese - Taiwan, also known for Hong Kong, Malaysia
• Simplified Chinese - Mainland China, also known for Singapore
• Japanese - Japan
• German - Germany
• French - France
• Spanish - Spain (Traditional)
• Basque - Spain

Major Adobe Reader Supported Platforms

Windows offline Adobe Reader Installer
Apple Machintosh offline Adobe Reader Installer
Unix/Linux offline Adobe Reader Installer
Android mobile device offline Adobe Installer

For Adobe Reader news update, you can visit their blog.

Impressive PDFCreator File Size Optimization

I have been using both PDFCreator and PrimoPDF for 3+ years. I mainly use them as a PDF converter and a virtual printer. I personally like PDFCreator most. But PrimoPDF can handle/convert some Web pages that PDFCreator cannot. To me, they both compensate each other. However, I have never paid attention to the PDF file size generated by them until recently. PDFCreator definitely is the winner. If anyone looks for a good PDF compression tool, I would highly recommend PDFCreator.

The following table presents you the file sizes generated by PDFCreator, PrimoPDF and GIRAC freewares from Microsoft WORD 2003 which doesn't contain images.

MS WORD 2003 with no image	73KB
PDFCreator	35KB
PrimoPDF	124KB
GIRAC	123KB

As you can see, PDFCreator file size optimization is the champion.

Updated on Jan 27, 2011:

Today I need to convert a document from WORD to PDF. The document is embedded with a tiny image. I used both PDFCreator and PrimoPDF for comparison to see which one does a better job. As expected, the PDF by PDFCreator results in very small size. But this time, the PDF made by PrimoPDF is a bit huge.

MS WORD 2003 embedded with a tiny image	69.5 KB (71,168 bytes)
PDFCreator	47.2 KB (48,388 bytes)
PrimoPDF	1.18 MB (1,245,833 bytes)

How to print PDF background as you see on file

Have you ever experienced the following problem when you print a PDF file? The background images appear like regular text. It is not what you see on file when you view it.

You may have a PDF look like this when you view it:



Whenever you try to print, you will get this:

There is nothing wrong with the PDF. To fix this, use Print as image at your printer option. You may find this option at your Advanced button or tab. Then you should print something as below:

Note that the printer used here is a black and white laser printer, not color print.