Stop avoiding PDFs

I can't remember the last time I was this excited by a software program.

I will go to all sorts of lengths to avoid opening a .pdf file -- the experience is just too slow, and it basically renders my computer useless while the opening is going on. Then there's the tortoise-pace of navigating through it. No, anything but a .pdf, please!

Maybe that's the key to customer excitement -- how much pain they were in before you came along...

I was browsing the U3 software to see if I could find a good calendaring app, and came across Foxit for U3. Free download, nothing to lose, so I installed it and then double-clicked on a 343 page .pdf on my desktop. It opened instantly.

I gaped, I admit it. It was a jaw-dropping experience. I grabbed a coworker from the hall so she could witness it herself.

Even better was that when I did a search, I found that there is also a Foxit Reader that I could install on my regular computer, rather than the U3.

I don't have to hate .pdfs anymore. Foxit rocks!