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

[Kibbo]

I think that openoffice can read them, but not sure.

 

[ActuaryTm]

This solution is works best. Really.

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: MisterCornell
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.

yep, that sums it up. It's a piece of software that is very poorly written. And they just can't seem to get it right after such a long time

 

[Demon-Xanth]

PDF is good for mixed text+graphics. It is NOT good for anything that involves editing. Plain text is best left as plain text. Datasheets are best served in PDF.

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

Kewl, I tried the tool (it wont' let em do it manually...)

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

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

THIS worked. If this was in the forum issues forum I'd mark this post as the answer.

Bitaches.

 

[DrPizza]

I don't have much of a problem with pdf files most of the time;
but on my computer at school, and at home, adobe reader is the #1 application for freezing the computer... no other program freezes the thing up anywhere near as often.

 

[mzkhadir]

use 7, its faster than ever or downgrade down to 5.5

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: OfficeLinebacker
THIS worked. If this was in the forum issues forum I'd mark this post as the answer.

Bitaches.

If this were Forum Issues, this thread would be locked, or moved to the correct forum (which ironically is what should be done here).

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: NFS4

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

Even with that disabled and not in my startup it seems to load faster.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Holy crap 7 seems to be faster!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

because it is a crappy program

use ghostview

 

[HardcoreRobot]

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

dont forget about AOL and Real

 

[iamwiz82]

6.0 was just terrible. I haven't tried 7.0 yet.

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: OfficeLinebacker
THIS worked. If this was in the forum issues forum I'd mark this post as the answer.

Bitaches.

If this were Forum Issues, this thread would be locked, or moved to the correct forum (which ironically is what should be done here).

Thank you, Captain Pundit. Please post more often on this thread. I'm not sure everyone gets it. Thanks.

 

[silverpig]

I like gpdf in linux. Nice and fast 🙂

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: OfficeLinebacker
Thank you, Captain Pundit. Please post more often on this thread. I'm not sure everyone gets it. Thanks.

If "someone" really comprehended the point, said "someone" would surely not complain about any responses - let alone ridicule in any way those who offered help to said individual lacking enough gray matter to find the correct forum in which to post a problem.

If you need additional help deducing who that "someone" might be, I've arranged for skywriter to fly over your part of Maryland later this afternoon.