27 Jun
2004
27 Jun
'04
11:46 a.m.
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(a)iee.org