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s0litaire · 09-23-2010, 12:17 AM

It depends on the PDF.

I've opened a few PDF's on my 2Ghz Celeron Ubuntu laptop and had the CPU hit 100% while they have been opened. While others PDF's are fine!

Think it's the type of compression the PDF uses. There's ZIP and LZM (Think they are the 2 main options!) if they were created using any abnormal settings it may stress out the CPU while de-compressing the PDF's

I've not used Adobe to create PDF's in years!
Ubuntu has a print to PDF option by default but not sure of it's settings (Or how to change them!).

09-23-2010, 12:17 AM	#13
s0litaire Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3	It depends on the PDF. I've opened a few PDF's on my 2Ghz Celeron Ubuntu laptop and had the CPU hit 100% while they have been opened. While others PDF's are fine! Think it's the type of compression the PDF uses. There's ZIP and LZM (Think they are the 2 main options!) if they were created using any abnormal settings it may stress out the CPU while de-compressing the PDF's I've not used Adobe to create PDF's in years! Ubuntu has a print to PDF option by default but not sure of it's settings (Or how to change them!).