Why does Adobe Acrobat take up an ungodly amount of CPU resources?

silverpig

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Do you mean Adobe Reader? Acrobat is a different program that creates the .pdfs.

And yeah it sucks.
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: Bassyhead
Originally posted by: aircooled
version 6 is particularly bad, but version 7 seems to be much faster

I agree, 7 is faster for me.

B/C it has a little app that loads at startup that aids in starting up the App faster
 

KeyserSoze

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There's a program on this page called Adobe Reader Speed Up which helps a little, in letting you eliminate plugins and unncessary crapola when it starts up.

But the actual software itself is still a hog. And there are a few different programs like the one above that do the same thing, so you might have better luck with others.




KeyserSoze
 

Fritzo

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pdf files are the cancer of the Internet. Why can't you just make a stupid html document???
 
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because PDF is the most craptacular format around and adobe consistantly makes bloated unoptimized software for PCs. The company I support relies heavily on PDFs and there must be 10 machines a day that crap out because of Adobe Acrobat.
 

Uppsala9496

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I'll take a .pdf over a stupid .tif file any day. I always get clients email .tif's. I loathe those. Pain in the butt to scroll through 100+ pages of a .tif. Printing a random page is also a pain. In Acrobat it is easy to just select the page number to print.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: KeyserSoze
There's a program on this page called Adobe Reader Speed Up which helps a little, in letting you eliminate plugins and unncessary crapola when it starts up.

But the actual software itself is still a hog. And there are a few different programs like the one above that do the same thing, so you might have better luck with others.

KeyserSoze

the speed up helps alot however if you have a PDF with things liek pics and roolovers in it the speed up dissables those features
 

yoda291

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
pdf files are the cancer of the Internet. Why can't you just make a stupid html document???

pdf is for print. It eliminates oddities between different viewers by forcing you to use the same viewer regardless. So when I type up a word document, I can render it into a pdf and know that what I see in my acrobat reader is what the recipient will see in theirs. With Word or HTML or Wordperfect, the look and feel of my document changes between different applications and software versions.

So just using HTML would defeat the purpose anyways.

 

DaFinn

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Hint: There are loads of other programs that can read .pdf files too... why does everyone use adobe reader???
 

BigJ

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Originally posted by: kmr1212
Anyone else notice a problem with Firefox loading a .pdf? Seems to always choke... :(

Try upgrading Acrobat. This used to always happen to me with version 6, but with version 7 it loads almost instantaneously.
 

MisterCornell

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I'm not a computer science expert, but to me it just seems that Adobe Acrobat is poorly written software. It slows down computers, frequently crashes, etc. I would prefer if more text documents were distributed in Word format.
 

PingSpike

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Originally posted by: DaFinn
Hint: There are loads of other programs that can read .pdf files too... why does everyone use adobe reader???

Can you suggest some?
 

Ornery

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Originally posted by: PingSpike
Originally posted by: DaFinn
Hint: There are loads of other programs that can read .pdf files too... why does everyone use adobe reader???
Can you suggest some?
Word does a nice job of it:
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