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# Tuesday, November 30, 2004

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PDF SpeedUp

I have previously written about how darn slow Adobe Acrobat 6 is when launching. I don't understand why Acrobat is so darn annoying. Here are some things I don't care for:

  • Don't create a “My eBooks“ folder in My Documents when I have nothing to put there.
  • Don't load 500 plugins when none of them are necessary to view a PDF
  • Don't place shortcuts for some lame Internet Printing thingy in my Start Menu (I loathe Start Menu Advertising)
  • Do install a PDF IFilter so that indexing products like Lookout can index PDFs w/o installing it seperatley
  • Don't load PDFs in IE because it is god awful slow
  • Don't make copy and paste so freaking hard
  • Don't ask me to install other Adobe software when I boot Acrobat
  • Don't create an updater (6.0.2) that creates an additional entry in my add/remove programs
If you want to fix most of these things, PDF SpeedUp is a free application that should come bundled with Acrobat. It's a must have piece of software to make Acrobat behave (as much as you can anyway).

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Posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004    Permalink    Comments [7]  View blog reactions

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Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:06:19 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
brilliant! i can't believe how much faster it loads up now.
Sean McLeary
Wednesday, December 01, 2004 6:16:04 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Thank you for this wonderful app.

Amit @ http://labnol.blogspot.com
amit agarwal
Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:28:29 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Just setup your browser right and pdf's won't open inside it anymore.
Phil
Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:00:07 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
This is very strange. The same thing can be done manually - tweak the user options to turn off the splash screen, disable browser integration and move most of the files in the plug_ins directory to the Optional directory (Adobe recommends keeping: Search, weblink, ew32 and escript).
John
Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:54:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Nice stuff, they also have a Photoshop speed up, but make sure that you remove all of the plug-ins that you want/use from the list.
SniperC4
Friday, December 03, 2004 8:48:12 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I agree completely, but what do you expect from a software that gives more importance to users being able to insert "a movie" into its documents than it does to inserting an image.
turgan
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:21:28 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
This tool caused be problems. I blogged about the problems and fix here: - http://ims.co.nz/blog/archive/2004/12/17/169.aspx
Tim Haines
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