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The slow start-up time with Acrobat Reader is mainly because of all the plugins it loads at startup. Here is a simple trick to stop it from loading the plugins at start-up, but only when needed: Under the Acrobat Reader 6.0\Reader folder is a plugins folder that contains all the plugins that are loaded at startup. But there is also an Optional folder that is empty by default. If you move all files from the plugins folder to this Optional folder, Acrobat Reader will no longer load all the plugins at startup but only when needed. This makes the startup a lot faster and you don't loose any functionality of the plugins. I've seen the startup time on one of my machines go from 7-10 seconds to under 1 second (on a P4 1.8Ghz with 256Mb RAM)
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If your beef with PDF is Adobe Acrobat's load time, then your beef is with Adobe Acrobat, not the PDF format. In general, I think PDF is great. It's totally multi-platform, you don't depend on people having MS Office installed, and with a good PDF reader, it takes a mere second to read. Have I mentioned I love my Macs with native PDF support? Oh, and my peeve is people sending me attachments for personal stuff (i.e. at home) in an MS Office format. I happen to love LaTeX for writing documents and have no need for Office. :)
lmuth wrote: Have I mentioned I love my Macs with native PDF support? Me too! I used to really dislike PDF because of the clumsy Windows viewer program, but they're much easier to read on a Mac.
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Generally I try to use RTF Although it doesn't have a lot of features. PDF seems to take so long to load. Also the number of crashes I have had with PDF in the last few days is ridiculous. I'm sure I can't have the OCX running in IE at the same time as the standalone reader. But other things seem to make it crash. Also I have never seen it scroll correctly, it always jumps around the place. I think I could whinge a lot more about PDF. Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
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That is good I hope it is adopted. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
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The slow start-up time with Acrobat Reader is mainly because of all the plugins it loads at startup. Here is a simple trick to stop it from loading the plugins at start-up, but only when needed: Under the Acrobat Reader 6.0\Reader folder is a plugins folder that contains all the plugins that are loaded at startup. But there is also an Optional folder that is empty by default. If you move all files from the plugins folder to this Optional folder, Acrobat Reader will no longer load all the plugins at startup but only when needed. This makes the startup a lot faster and you don't loose any functionality of the plugins. I've seen the startup time on one of my machines go from 7-10 seconds to under 1 second (on a P4 1.8Ghz with 256Mb RAM)
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The slow start-up time with Acrobat Reader is mainly because of all the plugins it loads at startup. Here is a simple trick to stop it from loading the plugins at start-up, but only when needed: Under the Acrobat Reader 6.0\Reader folder is a plugins folder that contains all the plugins that are loaded at startup. But there is also an Optional folder that is empty by default. If you move all files from the plugins folder to this Optional folder, Acrobat Reader will no longer load all the plugins at startup but only when needed. This makes the startup a lot faster and you don't loose any functionality of the plugins. I've seen the startup time on one of my machines go from 7-10 seconds to under 1 second (on a P4 1.8Ghz with 256Mb RAM)
Very effective, thanks!
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