Yea, I've used Foxit Reader for quite a while. I use it for most PDFs but I still keep Adobe's Reader around because it works better in my company's workflow.
One major shortcoming in FR is that it cannot select columns of text properly. This is the common layout for newspapers and magazines.
If your text is in three columns for example, selecting them will cause FR to treat them as one column of text. So if you copy and paste it elsewhere you'll get single lines of text with words merged from the three columns, which is quite useless!
Anyway, here are some tips for Foxit Reader:
1) To avoid the "associate with all PDFs" problem, just download the Zip file, which has no installer. It just contains the reader program which is ready to run, and will not try to associate itself with all PDFs.
2) Foxit Reader has a handy "Text Viewer" mode, but it will not allow you to select text in this mode. I think they want you to pay for a text converter. However, Ahk is able to read the text in this Text Viewer window, at least according to Windows Spy. So a DIY text converter might be possible, tho I keep putting it off. But again, FR doesn't know how to select columns of text properly, as I mentioned earlier.
3) You can get better graphics in FR if you d/l the gdiplus module, which is also avail free from the same site.
4) To select columns of text properly, you will still need Adobe's Reader. However, you can usually survive by just installing Acrobat Reader version 6.05, which is less of a resource hog than version 7.
-Lemming
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