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Title: Why is adobe acrobat such a memory hog?
Post by: zanzibar on February 08, 2007, 06:57:49 am

Whenever I open a pdf, my entire system slows down to a crawl.  And not even a turtle crawl.  It's closer to the movement of tectonic plates, or the decay of the moon's orbit.

Any ideas?  Could something be wrong?  I have a fast computer.

Title: Re: Why is adobe acrobat such a memory hog?
Post by: bilbous on February 08, 2007, 07:02:20 am

Because they fill it full of useless functionality. If you want to look at ordinary pdf's you might try  ghostscript.  (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) It is an open source pdf reader and has Windows ports