S_L_O_W downloads with Adobe Acrobat was Re: Information about a HP 13197 1K WCS for the HP 1000?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Nov 6 17:36:36 2003

   Last week I was having a LOT of trouble downloading PDF files from Al's
website. Adobe Acrobat was taking about ten minutes just to open the first
page and I couldn't get any pages beyond the first one. Erik suggested that
I right click on the file and save it without opening Adobe Acrobat. I
tried that and it worked MUCH better. However Al said that I should be able
to open the PDF file with Acrobat and read it and then save it without any
problems. That agrees with what I knew about PDFs. Anyway I've been
wondering what was going on so today I typed "Why is Adobe Acrobat slow"
into Google and I got some interesting results. I found LOTs of reviews of
Acrobat version 6 that also complained about it being SO SLOW. Some of the
reviewers suggesting sticking with Version 4. Following their advice I
uninstalled my current version of Acrobat (ver 5.something) and then went
to oldversions.com and downloaded version 4 and installed it. It works MUCH
MUCH better!

   If you're having problems with Acrobat being slow. Try removing it and
then installing version 4 and see if that helps. It works for me!


   Joe


At 02:11 PM 11/4/03 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> You're not supposed to view them in your web browser.
>
>It should work fine that way, assuming the pdf plugin is sending the
>right html commands to the web server.

  That's what I thought! But I tried saving the files directly and it
worked MUCH better. I could save an 18 Mb file in a couple of minutes that
way. Using Acrobat I couldn't even get one page in the same time. I tried
to open and save a 9Mb file last week and it ran for over 2 1/2 hours and
only got about 1/4 of the file before a power glitch crashed the computer.

   No idea why Acrobat slows things down so much. It doesn't seem to be a
problem on small files but the time seems to go up exponentally with file
size.



I see people reading docs this
>way all the time.
>
>To answer the original question, the WCS card is documented in the
>1000 M/E/F Engineering Reference
>http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/1000/1000_MEF_EngrRef/

    I couldn't find a specific docs for it but I thought it might be in the
Engineering Reference. I downloaded it this afternoon but haven't had a
chance to look through it yet.

    Thanks,
     Joe

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>92851-90001_Mar81_6.pdf section B
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Received on Thu Nov 06 2003 - 17:36:36 GMT

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