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Acrobat Reader 8 hogging resources

2007-02-28, 5:17 PM #1

Emon

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It starts a lot faster and is much improved over previous versions, but it's still not perfect.

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2007-02-28, 5:23 PM #2

Jon`C

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The fundamental problem here is that Acrobat was made by Adobe.

2007-02-28, 5:25 PM #3

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yep. try FoxIt.

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2007-02-28, 6:18 PM #4

Cool Matty

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Originally posted by Jon`C:

The fundamental problem here is that Acrobat was made by Adobe.

2007-02-28, 6:31 PM #5

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Nothing wrong with Photoshop...

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2007-02-28, 6:45 PM #6

Cool Matty

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Except it's a massive RAM eater too? :v:

2007-02-28, 6:48 PM #7

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Yeah PDF files suck.

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2007-02-28, 6:55 PM #8

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How is this news worthy? It's like you're telling me the 2007 sky is blue.

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2007-02-28, 7:07 PM #9

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Originally posted by Cool Matty:

Except it's a massive RAM eater too? :v:

I'm not seeing any problems with Photoshop with eating RAM.

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2007-02-28, 7:15 PM #10

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I've seen program conflicts where Program A sets a DLL up to load in all programs. Program B loads it and the DLL eats up memory like candy in that program and only that program.

In my specific example, Program A was Windowblinds, Program B was Google Desktop, and 2gb was eaten up before my system hung.

Fortunately Google fixed the problem (assuming it was theirs; at any rate after installing a new version of GDS it didn't happen amymore).

My main complaint is that Reader no longer works with Firefox; when Firefox tries to use the plugin to load a PDF Firefox crashes and a blank Reader 8 window opens after about 10 minutes.

What PDF were you looking at? I wanna see how much my Reader eats up.

2007-02-28, 9:11 PM #11

Emon

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Originally posted by Yecti:

yep. try FoxIt.

I already use it, this was on my dad's PC.

MZZT, I don't remember what the file was, sorry.

Also, Acrobat Reader is the only Adobe application I've ever had trouble with. Photoshop and Illustrator are fantastic. Any imaging application will use a lot of RAM, so I don't consider it their fault.

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2007-02-28, 10:33 PM #12

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But it works fine with my comp...
Hmm...

2007-02-28, 11:04 PM #13

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The problem I have with foxit is I couldn't get it to display PDF in the browser, which is sometimes convenient.

2007-02-28, 11:12 PM #14

Emon

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There's an experimental FoxIt plugin for Firefox, but it's not very good at all. I'm surprised at their lack of development on it.

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