Who the hell writes this software crap these days?

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Try Acrobat Professional. It's not free but it works much better.

nope, takes forever to load up a pdf file on my system, and it locks up firefox upon exit on my windows pc. my mactel is quick as lightning though.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Try Acrobat Professional. It's not free but it works much better.

nope, takes forever to load up a pdf file on my system, and it locks up firefox upon exit on my windows pc. my mactel is quick as lightning though.

That's strange. I have both Reader & Professional on the PC I'm using right now... Reader takes quite a while to start, especially when started from within a browser, but it is also takes a while when it's just opening a file.

Professional, however, opens them instantly. I haven't experienced any delays at all using it.

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Why would you pay money for a profession version of a software who's consumer edition you hate?

I never said I hate it. The reader works ok, the professional version is better. The latter is required for work. Never really had much of an issue and when there is Adobe support has been good. Of course you have to actually buy software to be able to call support.

Odd that it runs faster. I'll have to give it a try! (Just bought CS2 Premium which I think comes with it).

 

[Eltano1]

Thanks for let us know about FoxIt, great finding

Eltano

 

[IGBT]

..people that use it all the time prob.like it. for the few times I use it..it seems very bloated.

 

[zephyrprime]

And Acrobat also doesn't use virtual window in memory caching of windows. WTF kind of lame programmer made that decision?

 

[dighn]

I don't know why Adobe is doing this. It's like they want to kill the pdf format (which is completely awesome if not for the POS Acrobat Reader)

 

[TraumaRN]

Acrobat Reader is the devil.

We have these new printers at work tagged with brand new computers(either P4 3.0's w/1Gig of Ram with Microsoft Windows 2KProfessional or Pentium M 1.86 w/1Gig of RAM and 2K Pro) with Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 running on top of that and I swear to God it still takes me forever and a day to print out a 9 page peer reviewed research article. If only I could convince the system admins to switch to FoxIt

 

[Staples]

I just installed Foxit and it seems to work pretty well. I agree that Acrobat 7 is bloatware but I have a fast computer with plenty of RAM so I can live with it if I have too.

 

[zephyrprime]

Say, maybe the op is using the "print as image" option by chance in Adobe?

 

[Trevelyan]

hmm... will try Foxit

 

[Nebor]

Acrobat has been the devil for years. Since it's invention, even.

 

[cthulhu]

I'll give foxit a look.

 

[Kelvrick]

Professional always worked pretty well for me. Work related also.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone

Originally posted by: Injury
I've never had problems.

Download FoxIT reader and stop being "that guy"

Why re-invent the wheel?

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone

Originally posted by: Injury
I've never had problems.

Download FoxIT reader and stop being "that guy"

Why re-invent the wheel?

When the first guy's wheel is actually a pentagon and has an off center axle, it's probably worth re-inventing.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Aharami
and nice rant btw

I concur. 9.5/10

:thumbsup:

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Does FoxIt integrate with IE/Firefox?

not exactly

 

[DurocShark]

Just installed FoxIt. Thanks!

And I have Pro 6 on this laptop. Still sucks. Just not as bad as the reader.

 

[SunnyD]

Just as an aside... I wasn't trying to extoll the virtues of or evangelize FoxIt. Hell, I don't even use it... but if you guys like it :thumbsup:.

I was just trying to point out that Adobe fails @ life when it comes to their own software, which is sad. And to make the point, I was trying to find out exactly why Acrobat was handling such simple files with issues on computers that normally have no problems handling such items.

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Say, maybe the op is using the "print as image" option by chance in Adobe?

I think checking "print as image" might actually help the OP.

I remember a few years back when designing a document management system that Reader would take FOREVER to spool and print documents, only on certain machines.

It turns out there is some known issue using Reader to printer to a PCL-only (or maybe it PS?) printer-- we had the same symptoms the OP was having: long, long print times, large spool file sizes, etc.

The solution from Adobe was to check the "print as image" box-- it seemed to work for us as a stop gap.

 

[her209]

Are you printing using the PCL5e/6 drivers? Have you tried printing with the PS driver instead?

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: MathMan

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Say, maybe the op is using the "print as image" option by chance in Adobe?

I think checking "print as image" might actually help the OP.

I remember a few years back when designing a document management system that Reader would take FOREVER to spool and print documents, only on certain machines.

It turns out there is some known issue using Reader to printer to a PCL-only (or maybe it PS?) printer-- we had the same symptoms the OP was having: long, long print times, large spool file sizes, etc.

The solution from Adobe was to check the "print as image" box-- it seemed to work for us as a stop gap.

Yup, that reduced print times to aobut 30 seconds and 27meg per page. But the thing is, why is this happening on certain PDFs. And why is it so excessive? It's not the point to have a STOP GAP. The point is the software is crappy.