[sdiy] Advice for people reading .pdf's...

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On Sonntag, 11. März 2007 22:27, Bob Weigel wrote:
> Anyway..there is a program  called "Foxit Reader 2.0".  Delete
> bloated pig adobe acrobat.  Install that.  A couple of us have tried
> it and it works flawlessly and loads much faster since it's way more
> compact.  It loads the file that crashed adobe just fine.

Sometimes you still need the real Acrobat, so if you are stuck with it 
for whatever reason...  The slow startup and large memory footprint, is 
caused by the many plugins that you don't really need every day.  The 
solution is dead simple (works at least since version 6 and I still 
don't understand why Adobe doesn't provide a configuration interface 
for that): make a directory named "optional" in the "reader" directory 
and move all the plugins and plugin folders from "plug_ins" over there; 
except ebook, ewh, search and perhaps escript.  For windows there is a 
software that does it with a simple click of the button (VB runtime 
required).

http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/software/index.php?type=supported&id=7F7290B5

Best of all, the moved plugins still work when they are really required, 
but since they are only loaded on demand startup is now much faster and 
less memory is wasted on things you don't use. AcroRead 7 startup went 
from 25sec to 2sec on startup on my aging Linux box; AcroRead8 at work 
on a much faster computer went from unbearably long 40sec to almost 
instant window popup.


Achim.
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