Thank you! o)
I tried:
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PDF Previewer (win7pdf.com/PDFPreviewerSetup.exe)
Very slow, kinda ugly interface and no good at all. -
Foxit PDFPreview Handler (download1.timheuer.com/FoxitPdfP ... up_1_1.msi)
Not better than the old regular Foxit ActiveX I used.
It's even worse since it displays an annoying banner at the top in the preview.. aaand also steals focus. -
PDF-XChange (downloads.pdf-xchange.com/PDFXVE6.zip)
Thank you Kundal. Despite the weird look and feel of the GUI, it seems to be quite nice. The ActiveX works good (steals focus of course) and the preview handler also works nicely and does not steal focus. A win! o) First steps in the actual PDF Editor got me quickly into "limited demo functionality" corners and the 100MB download is quite heavy, but hey. It works! o) -
Sumatra PDF (kjkpub.s3.amazonaws.com/sumatra ... nstall.exe)
Also works very good for previewing, it does not steal focus. The preview does not have any kind of information though (number of pages).
It is the fastest previewer and viewer in the pool. Small footprint (3-4MB download only).
So I will go with PDF-XChange as preview handler and open PDFs for viewing with Sumatra for now. Sumatra is really fast and also comes in "text selection" mode by default. Selecting text directly in the viewer pane is something you loose when switching from an ActiveX handler to a dumb preview handler, but you can't have everything I guess.
Now I actually could go on and do some work, but all the pdf context menus are gone:
It just doesn't end! o)