[rippinchikkin]

The world is alive with PDF's these days, almost every manual for anything purchased is available in PDF of course, at the manufactures web site.
At work I have a 2 gig Celeron, mind you, its not the fastest thing on the market (doesn

[Neuromancer]

This is with adobe reader 7?

Its much fasster and lighter the n6 IMHO

You want want to try moving back to 5 if 7 is giving you problems...


Still a 2GHz processor should be able to handle opening a PDF file... I am runnning a 2GHz athlon processor and experience delay based only on the size of the file.

(A 300 page PDF might take 10-15 seconds to open)

[b_a88]

Yeah I've a problem like that on a P4 2.26Ghz. I've also had a few problems once in a while on my AMD 64 2800+ with PDF's not loading while opening them from on-line. I've found that if your going to open a PDF from on-line it is better to save it to disk first then open from the hard drive.

[kanaloa]

The new Adobe Readers are fantastic.

I used to hate PDF's, but with the new readers I use PDF files extensively on my sites. They are much easier than any other format in distribution of files, booklets, etc.

[rippinchikkin]

This is with adobe reader 7?

Its much fasster and lighter the n6 IMHO

You want want to try moving back to 5 if 7 is giving you problems...


Still a 2GHz processor should be able to handle opening a PDF file... I am runnning a 2GHz athlon processor and experience delay based only on the size of the file.

(A 300 page PDF might take 10-15 seconds to open)

Thanks for your suggestion; this was more a rant than an actual quest for a solution. But since we are there, I am using 7. Probably a lot of the original drag is from the originating web site, upon initial opening. But still, word can load faster than adobe in most cases on my pc. I thought the idea behind Acrobat reader was the fact that it

[augie]

Adobe Reader Speed-Up 1.32Publisher's Description:
Adobe Reader Speed-Up significantly decreases the amount of time required for Adobe Reader to start by disabling most of the least used plugins. Plugins can be freely enabled and disabled, if required.

Currently supports free and full versions of Adobe Acrobat v3.0, v4.0, v4.0.5, v5.0, v5.0 CE, v5.1, v5.5, and Adobe Reader v6.0, v6.0.1, and v7.0.

AR Speed Up

[augie]

I have a 1 GHz Celly and it only takes 15 secs or so to open without running the speedup utility. Something else is going on with your rig rip.

[b_a88]

I don't think I've had any problems since I got version 6 a while ago. Also the only times I ever did have problems it was with older versions and I was veiwing them on-line, I've never had a problem view directly from my hard drive.

[rippinchikkin]

I attribute it to the fact that it is a Celeron (2.2 gig in Celeron = 1 gig AMD, IMHO) and it

[Grav!ty]

I've found that if your going to open a PDF from on-line it is better to save it to disk first then open from the hard drive.

I have a 1 GHz Celly and it only takes 15 secs or so to open without running the speedup utility. Something else is going on with your rig rip.

I know you are not looking for solutions but what these fellas have to say makes sense