Just went to download Acrobat reader and found that it's an enormous 37MB
download just for something to read pdf files (curiously the same file
size whether I tell the site to give me the normal or basic versions,
which suggests a problem).

Anyone know if the Adobe site is broken at present? (Reason I ask this is
that I installed Acrobat on a system just a couple of weeks ago and I
swear I didn't sit through a 37MB download...)

ps. have tried xpdf and the various other alternatives in the past and
none of them seem to cope well with pdf files containing large (multi-MB)
images...

cheers

Jules