Has Acrobat become really fucking slow?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-05-03 11:11pm

I thought it was the 'pdf in firefox' thing was 'system crushingly slow fucking my dvd burn' bad, but even opening local pdfs with my local acrobat client is fucking ludicriously slow. Does this happen to anyone else?

atg · Post by **atg** » 2006-05-03 11:34pm

No for me. Version of reader are you using? I'm on 7.0

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-05-03 11:37pm

I'm on 7.0.3. Opening a pdf causes a 3-4s period of no response from anything. There's no CPU spike and Acrobat isn't anywhere NEAR the 2Gb of RAM... so what gives?

atg · Post by **atg** » 2006-05-03 11:44pm

Maybe 7.0.3 is a buggy revision? Just checking adobe's website there is 7.0.7 out. Try that maybe?

Other than that does the size of the document being opened make any difference? Like a 200k file vs a 10Mb file? I occasionaly see a seconds delay with 10+Mb files.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-05-03 11:47pm

Nah, it's a one-page price list.

I'll grab the new version, though... althought it hasn't nagged me for an update.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-05-03 11:50pm

PS, It turns out that 7.0.7 is chockers with bugfixes. I guess I'll be fine once I update.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-05-04 03:33am

Had some issues with it today. For some reason, whenever I open a document or swich between them, it flashes a window as if it is trying to resize the document down from the max application size to some sort of window within the application. Quite annoying when you need to be able to reference 5 or so other documents to understand the one that you are reading.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-05-04 04:25am

That's my surprise - I don't use pdfs much, but I remember Reader being fast and able to handle many documents. I guess it's getting fat in its old age.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-05-04 05:45am

Acrobat reader has always sucked ass.

BTW, I hate the PDF format. It is a format for printing not for fucking viewing it on the screen.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-05-04 08:43am

I gave up on Acrobat long time ago. The last version that was fast was 5. If you just need a reader, Foxit does an excellent job.

BloodAngel · Post by **BloodAngel** » 2006-05-04 08:48am

Xon wrote:BTW, I hate the PDF format. It is a format for printing not for fucking viewing it on the screen.

Currently, I don't think there's really any other better solution for displaying specially formatted text.

Not everyone has Office, and displaying the same text on a website would be hard to code.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-05-04 09:09am

I'm still at 5.0, and it works fine. It's very seldom that an error message saying that the file won't be displayed correctly shows up and when it does, it works just fine anyhow.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2006-05-04 10:30am

I've had unpleasant experiences with Acrobat past version 5. I've found that Acrobat likes to stuff your temp folders with lots and lots and lots of crap. And this slows down Acrobat substantially. Nuking your temp folders will solve your slowdown problem. Or you could just stick with Acrobat 5, which is the best Acrobat EVAR. (At work, I put 5 back on my machine after scrubbing 6 and doing my best to never think about it again. This discouraged me from upgrading Acrobat on my home computers.)

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2006-05-04 10:40am

Arrow wrote:I gave up on Acrobat long time ago. The last version that was fast was 5. If you just need a reader, Foxit does an excellent job.

Seconded.
www.foxitsoftware.com

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2006-05-04 11:03am

Thank you Oberleutnant!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-05-04 11:56am

Acrobat 7 is significantly faster than Acrobat 6 ... Acrobat 5, unfortunately, does not support some newer features of PDF that I've seen.

Shortie · Post by **Shortie** » 2006-05-04 02:18pm

If you're just opening basic files then go to your Acrobat folder, and take everything but EWH32.api, search.api & printme.api out (back them up in case you need them later of course). Or you could use foxit of course.

Oh, and for firefox I use pdf_download, which let me choose to save them rather than loading them automatically

Prozac the Robert · Post by **Prozac the Robert** » 2006-05-04 04:21pm

I also use foxit, it hasn't let me down so far.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2006-05-05 02:59pm

Still using Acrobat 5 here. I see no reason to update.