> I had the same problem and I did some research on the net
> and found that
> it's a known problem with version 6 of Acrobat. I erased it
> off my system
> and installed version 4 and it works MUCH better. So far I
> haven't had any
> problems running the older version.
The place I worked in previously upgraded from
3 to 4 (because of the support for a new PDF spec
I think) and there did not seem to be much
difference in speed. I forget why I went to
Acrobat 5, but that seems to be not too much
slower than 4 at starting (at least for the
reader, I've never compared full products
against each other). Acrobat 6 is just such
a stunningly slow starter, it's amazing that
noone at Adobe noticed.
> The other thing that I've
> found is to
> NOT open documents on the net with Acrobat. Right click on
> them and do a
> Save As. It will download in seconds instead of (literally!)
> hours. Then
> open and use the saved copy.
Yes. This has always been true I think. It
is (apparently) possible to prepare PDFs in
some way that avoids this (i.e. displays
first page as it arrives and downloads the
rest in the background) but since I almost
always want to keep a copy around I mostly
go with the right-click approach.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Sun Jun 27 2004 - 18:46:06 BST