Speedup loading Adobe Reader 6 for PDF IE 6?

[bcastner]

I shudder now when I see a link with a .PDF extension.

Adobe Reader 5 and 5.1 where slightly better.

Are there any tips/hints/settings or anything to pre-load or avoid the loading time for Adobe Reader (any version) under IE 6.01 and Windows XP SP1?

I feel like I should somehow add it to the Startup Program list and minimize it for every boot.

Has anyone found anything clever to handle the initializatiion of this software?

Best,
Bill Castner

 

[cmeagan656]

I agree, it is a pain. What I do is open Adobe Reader 6 as soon as I log on and then close it again (I don't open any files in it, just the program). Then when you want to open a pdf file from IE it will load fairly fast. I find you don't need to keep Adobe Reader open, its just the first time of each session that takes so long.

Cheers.

 

[bcastner]

I have been doing this as well (deliberatly open, the close) and it does help.

Perhaps I should create an essentially blank .pdf file, and put it into the Startup Program Group (essentially, a Run key).

If... I could figure out how to open, then close, the .PDF so as to fool it into preloading into cache all the Adobe .DLLS it requires.

Thanks cmeagan656. I suspect someone much more clever than I has a secret tip to handle this issue.

Bill Castner

 

[yellowcat]

I simply got rid of Acrobat 6, re-installed my good old Page Maker which came with Acrobat 4... and wow, everything was fast and crashproof again. Then I repeated the procedure on my Mac- as fine an improvement. Sure I did it on all the other computers, nobody complained.

Same goes for the Pro version: It is much easier to correct a typo in Acrobat 4 than in Acrobat 6 and checking 1200 pages is no nightmare. The only 'improvement' in Acrobat 6 seem to be some Microsoft Office plugins - but thy never thought of Quark and Pagemaker. Why on earth should you be using Word to make a PDF?

 

[bcastner]

I did think about reverting the Adobe Reader release, but Version 6 (albeit it is much larger in size) loads roughly as fast (oxymoron) as Reader 5.

I suspect that getting a non-Adobe add-in for IE to just open .PDF files is how I will have to go. I was hoping for someone much more clever than I to find a workaround.

thanks yellowcat for your comments. To be considered.