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Adobe Acrobat 5.0 is slow -- why?

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by anejako

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I am supporting someone with 128 MB of RAM, plenty of hard drive space on Windows 98 running Acrobat 5.0. Every time she tries to open a .pdf file her system hangs--especially when she is trying to work in other applications.
We have cleaned up hertemp files and defragmented her disk drive more than once.
What could be causing this Acrobat slowness?

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by tsimmo67

Well it depends. Acrobat is naturally slow anyway, especially when opening large files. Opening files from a CD or the net always makes my system hang, regardless of what is running in the background. i think there is patch to fix this, but haven't heard of any definite way of fixing this problem.
one way of fixing it(this method tends to work when things run slow) is to add more memory to the virtual memory. Of course if the harddrive is full, then this is no good and you have to expect that it will run slow regardless. Other than that i cant think of snyway of fixing this problem.
hope that helps
-Travis

by anejako

This probably would solve it, but I resolved with an upgrade to Acrobat 5.05. Thanks anyway.

by smithjj

Additionally, note what applications are running when she opens the .pdf file. Close all of them expect the Acrobat application. If she is using a browser, try opening it without the browser. The browser take up several megs of memory.

You can also try Opera or another lightweight browser as well.

Doubling the memory to 256 MB will probably solve this. Monitor the system performance to see if it is memory or CPU constrained.

Make sure the .pdf file is local, and not on a network disk.

by anejako

This is a better way to troubleshoot pdf performance. Even though I resolved this issue myself with an upgrade to Acrobat 5.05, I should probably give you the points for this answer just the same.

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