{"id":49075,"date":"2025-08-29T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49075"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:21:37","slug":"sizes-of-adobe-reader-installers-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/29\/sizes-of-adobe-reader-installers-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizes of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigwait.org\/~alex\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/zw6z4E.html\">Alexander Gromnitsky<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45012931\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sigwait.org\/~alex\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/zw6z4E.html\"><p>At the time of writing, the most recent Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z 64-bit\ninstaller for Windows 11 weights <strong>687,230,424 bytes<\/strong>. After\ninstallation, the program includes &lsquo;AI&rsquo; (of course), an auto-updater,\nsprinkled ads for <em>Acrobat online services<\/em> everywhere, and 2 GUIs:\n&rsquo;new&rsquo; and &lsquo;old&rsquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like a steady, pretty linear increase until you realize that the graph use a log scale&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/adobe-at-40\/\">Adobe at 40<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/29\/the-state-of-mac-pdf-software\/\">The State of Mac PDF Software<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/adobe-direct-download-links\/\">Adobe Direct Download Links<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/pdf-js\/\">PDF.js<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"sizes-of-adobe-reader-installers-through-the-years-update-2025-09-02\">Update (<a href=\"#sizes-of-adobe-reader-installers-through-the-years-update-2025-09-02\">2025-09-02<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/adobe-reader-installer-sizes\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/adobe-reader-installer-sizes\/\">\n<p>The installed size of the latest version of Acrobat is, on my Mac, 2.18 GB &mdash; or, to spell it out as Gromnitsky did, 2,176,053,007 bytes. Of course, over 435 MB of that is because it includes a copy of the Chromium web browser engine. I primarily use this application to view, edit, and add form fields to text-based documents, and to dismiss ads for A.I. features and Adobe services. Gromnitsky is describing only Reader, which is far more limited than Acrobat, even more so than Apple&rsquo;s own Preview software; you cannot even split a PDF into multiple files with Reader.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Gromnitsky (via Hacker News): At the time of writing, the most recent Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z 64-bit installer for Windows 11 weights 687,230,424 bytes. After installation, the program includes &lsquo;AI&rsquo; (of course), an auto-updater, sprinkled ads for Acrobat online services everywhere, and 2 GUIs: &rsquo;new&rsquo; and &lsquo;old&rsquo;. 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