Why is Acrobat X Pro so $%*#&*@# MASSIVE?

jagec

Lifer
Apr 30, 2004
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I just picked up a copy of Adobe CS6 Design Standard, mostly for Photoshop and Illustrator, but I do some PDF editing too. While I would probably be better served by a different (lighter) PDF editor, I don't want to pay anything extra now that I spent so much on CS6, for something semi-redundant.

But, 2.1 GB installed? REALLY? Where is all this space going? A basic PDF editor is, what, 60 MB? I understand that Acrobat X does a LOT more than your run-of-the-mill FoxIt editor or the like, but it still seems like a mind-boggling amount of space, considering that the features-packed Photoshop is a mere 300MB or so.

OK, rant over! Thanks for reading.
 

rivan

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Jul 8, 2003
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It's gotten this way slowly, with feature creep. 3D, GIS, medical stuff, forms, editing markup, etc. Each new "feature" set has seemed to add 150MB.