How to speed up pdf loading time

Posted by Martin in Advice  Tags: ,

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Jun



Adobe Reader is really slow when it starts. Did you ever try to view a pdf document that was available on the web ? The reader tends to load very slowly although the document itself might be only a few hundred kilobytes. This is bothering me and I suppose it´s bothing a lot of people who are using the Adobe Reader to view pdf files.

The reason why it is loading so slow is simple. Adobe Reader is loading plugins when it starts and this increases load times tremendously. Most people don´t need all of the plugins, the trick to speed up loading times of the Adobe Reader would be to remove unused plugins. To do this browse to your plug_ins directory of your Adobe installation and move plugins into a newly created folder called optional.

The default directory for Adobe Reader 7 would be for instance C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins

Make sure you remove all plugins except the following ones: EWH32.api, print*.api, and Search*.api

Load a pdf afterwards and see how fast it loads and check if you miss a feature. If you do try to find out which plugin is needed for the feature and move it into the plug_ins folder again.

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DigiZen » Blog Archive » Trucos para abrir documentos PDF de manera más rápida says:

[...] En gHacks se discute el problema de la lentitud que se experimenta al abrir un documento PDF. El problema consiste que Adobe Reader tiene una gran número de plugins que tiende abrir de forma automática pero que muchos de ellos no se necesitan. gHacks sugiere ir a donde está instalado Acrobat Reader y mover los plugins a otro archivo. Sin embargo , habíamos comentado hace un tiempo que podemos lograr esto de forma automática con el Reader SpeedUp . Les aseguro que notarán una diferencia significativa al abrir un documento PDF. [...]

Dominic says:

Or you could just get Foxit PDF Reader and save yourself a lot of time and trouble (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php).

yair says:

really faster, thnx

cj says:

how about a mobile version og ghacks??

Martin says:

Interesting question cj, I might add a poll soon asking my visitors what they would like to see and mobile will be an option. Thanks for mentioning this.

tech guy says:

There are programs that you can download that will remove these plugins for you. Here’s one example:
http://www.acropdf.com/products.html
**You do have to scroll down to PDF SpeedUp

However, I prefer using Foxit PDF Reader which was suggested previously. It allows me to remove Adobe altogether. Foxit is blazing fast.

Smuggle Me » PDF Load Time says:

[...] admit that it use to be worse before I knew how to make PDF files open fast on my computer. You can remove the adobe pdf plugins, but I personally prefer to use Foxit on my computers. They make PDF’s [...]

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