Speed Up Acrobat Reader

Filed in: Downloads, Tips n Tricks — July 18th, 2004

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I believe you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to read crossplatform compatible PDF files. PDF files is great to sharing documents in multiple platforms environment.

I don’t know if you found that Acrobat Reader is slow to load. It takes almost one minute to startup on my Pentium 3. I have tried manual way to tweak the Acrobat Reader, but it is not perfect. I can’t get rid of the annoying advertisement and auto updates.

Here I found a small tool to tweak Acrobat Reader – PDF SpeedUp. It is freeware, small size, and no installation required.

Here is some of the PDF SpeedUp tweaks:

  • Turn off “Updates” features
  • Disable startup splash screen
  • Turn off advertisement at upper right corner
  • Do not load plug-ins at startup
  • Disable user selected plug-ins
  • and more…

You may ask, “What if I want to get back some of the features/plug-ins?”
No worry, there is a “Restore” button for you to restore everything back to default. :)

Homepage | Download (290KB)

Note: The company also has AcroPDF, a freeware to generate PDF file.

Thought:
I have tweaked my Acrobat Reader 6.0 and now it starts EXTREMELY fast! Wow! I can’t believe it was the snail loading speed Acrobat Reader!

Highly recommended if you use Acrobat Reader! *thumb up*

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  • Calyx
    hi, may I know what is the title of the acrobat programme to use
    for creating acrobat files and pictures?
    I have an acrobat CD that could create files but I think it is
    not easy to use.
  • LcF
    it should be Adobe Acrobat. After you install it, you can export to PDF file in other application like MS Word.
    However, you can also create PDF file using freeware like AcroPDF that I mentioned above. It just work as a virtual printer. :)
  • CS
    hmm does this tweak up the Photoshop Startup as well? normally i do a unix2pdf or dos2pdf to convert file formats in linux. Btw, i noticed that you comment box acts pretty weird. (went off screen), perhaps you should set the width and height?
  • LcF
    To get faster loading speed on Adobe Photoshop, you can remove plugins and fonts that you don't need in Photoshop installation folder.

    Note:
    I also noticed the comment box problem in Internet Explorer, however, it works right in Mozilla/Firefox.

    FYI, I am using the Default template that come with Wordpress without editing any bit of it. Anyway, I will change the template design. :)
  • CS
    yeah shortly after i posted the comments, i realised that it works fine on my firefox. Hmm
    but i am gonna remove firefox soon to try out the new OPERA browser.
  • thnx for the link for the app Reader SpeedUp.exe. When using it I don't have to wait one or two minutes no more to load a pdf file. It just takes a few seconds instead. This is really a great program that everyone should use.
  • LcF
    Glad that you like it, Pete. :)
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