Adobe PDF upgrade free?

My son-in-law has Adobe Acrobat 5.0 on his computer. Neither of us can find a free upgrade of Adobe to V7.0. Is there such a site?
If not is there a good free replacement PDF reader that works without a lot of problems in recognition?

Thanks,
Jerry

 

adobe 7.0.5 about 20Mb
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

foxit reader smaller about 1Mb (standalone)
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

 

adobes installs junks ands displays ads, foxit (ive never tried) will it load pdfs in firefox?

 

Can't answer that, never tried it, but if you want to use Acrobat Reader without all the plug-ins, junk, why not try Acrobat Reader SpeedUp....

http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php

Nifty little proggy which enables you to stop the vast majority of plug-ins from loading, etc. and yet retains the functionality of using it to read PDF files.

I've used it in the past, but I have the actual Adobe Acrobat program itself [not just the reader] with Distiller, etc. so I very rarely use Reader these days.

Mine is an old version 1.5, [new one 1.34] but it's still enabled and if I do open Reader, it opens in a few seconds, not like 20-40 it used to take sometimes.

See pic, notice the unchecked plugins which *don't* load, just those alone saving over 3500kb of loadup.

TAS

edit... hmm.. pic won't load.. will keep trying...

 

In windows I perfer Foxit myself I can't answer the question about open PDFs from within FF with Foxit as I normally just DL the PDFs and view them later, But I assume if you change the actions in FF, it should load/start Foxit with the targeted PDF.

 

pic of ar speed up... would not load for some reason in original post.

 

Thanks for all the replies. Evidently one can get the upgrade free, so I think he is "out of the woods."

Jerry

 

foxit wont load pdfs within firefox but it can be opened directly (first saved to a temp dir).
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2593/foxit9ws.jpg