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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: 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 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