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Originally Posted by TadW
For you, does it also take forever to start Adobe Reader?
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Ooh, I have some suggestions.
Speed up Acrobat 7:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/arch...22/330288.aspx
Some discussion on speeding up Acrobat 6:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2...24/269567.aspx
A utility to speed up Acrobat (should be top of the list there - or near it):
http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/
Xpdf (another PDF reader - there are more out there):
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
Yes, PDF isn't that great. But there's not much else to fill the space it currently holds (documents, like manuals, with some graphics - not just text, but mainly text). Microsoft Word (.doc)? More properitary than PDF. HTML? Not easy to grab for offline viewing. OpenOffice.org documents? Not supported in "commonly used programs" (MS Word - many open source word processors do support them). Similar problems with alot of other possibilities.
For conversion of PDFs (and PostScripts), have a look at GhostScript.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
And be sure to look at the manual - a PDF file, downloadable from:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/merz.htm