How to speed up PDF loading with Adobe Acrobat
Dean Wiebe at DWTips shares a tips on speeding up PDF loading on Adobe Acrobat. He suggests that most of the stock plugins are not used by most users – and to move them out from loading by default – the loading speed will be increased:
To disable unneeded plugins and make them optional instead, follow these instructions:
1. Install the latest version of Adobe Acrobat – you can get it here
2. Browse to the plugins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins
3. Create a new folder named Optional
4. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to Optional, except EWH32.api, print*.api, and Search*.api
You really can feel the difference!



Comments
Logan says on June 19th, 2006 at 7:11 am
About a year ago, I got fed up with Acrobat Reader and found Foxit Reader. It’s a free download, and it runs circles around Acrobat Reader.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
(I don’t even know these Foxit people– I’m just glad I don’t have to suffer Acrobat anymore.)
forester_man says on June 19th, 2006 at 11:03 am
I would definitely concur, Foxit Reader is pretty slick, but I can see this being very useful for people that /need/ Acrobat.
Ian Stanley says on June 20th, 2006 at 4:41 am
Or use Preview from MacOSX which is substatially faster