Vista and Adobe Acrobat Pro version 8

[JerryF]

Of all the programs I use in Vista, Adobe Acrobat Pro is
the one that performs the worst. Frequently while
editing a file the application window goes into the
"twilight zone" with the entire appliction window
becoming fuzzy and unresponsive sometimes for as long as
30 seconds. It does not completely hang, and eventually
responds. This happens on at least 3 different machines.
All have Quad Cores and with 4GB of memory and are
otherwise very responsive machines.

Is there an explantion for why Acrobat does this in
Vista?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

What does Adobe have to say on the issue?

 

[JerryF]

Of course you know they blame Vista as being flawed

I do suspect it may be how Vista allocates memory to
Acrobat. It is almost like it decides it is a
"background" process not an active one.

Will Vista allow me to allocate more processor time to
Acrobat? If so how?

Thanks

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Of all the programs I use in Vista, Adobe Acrobat Pro is
the one that performs the worst. Frequently while
editing a file the application window goes into the
"twilight zone" with the entire appliction window
becoming fuzzy and unresponsive sometimes for as long as
30 seconds. It does not completely hang, and eventually
responds. This happens on at least 3 different machines.
All have Quad Cores and with 4GB of memory and are
otherwise very responsive machines.

Is there an explantion for why Acrobat does this in
Vista?

You'd need to direct this question to Adobe's developers and programmers.


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[dgmacmi]

Of all the programs I use in Vista, Adobe Acrobat Pro is
the one that performs the worst. Frequently while
editing a file the application window goes into the
"twilight zone" with the entire appliction window
becoming fuzzy and unresponsive sometimes for as long as
30 seconds. It does not completely hang, and eventually
responds. This happens on at least 3 different machines.
All have Quad Cores and with 4GB of memory and are
otherwise very responsive machines.

Is there an explantion for why Acrobat does this in
Vista?

The Adobe User forums are here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html

First you should check that you have installed all updates {Acrobat 8, Help,
updates} for the program.

Don

 

[JerryF]

Have you ever used the adobe forums?

The chances of getting an answer to a question are as
about as common as a 90 degree day in the Antartic

Also Adobe support has terminated all support for any
Acrobat verison older than version 9. Even if you have
never used your version 8 support once.

Most answers are put downs of Vista.

I believe Adobe develops Acrobat using Java , and that
may in fact be the problem.

I'm tired of the criticism of Vista, I am very happy
with Vista performance. I dislike Acrobat. The problem I
face is that by default the PDF format is the defacto
standard for storing information, so our Savin copier
scans into PDF files. We scan for storage some 50-100
documents daily.

Since we need to store these scanned images (Mostly
text) I use Acrobat to convert them from image pdf to
searchable pdf. Most files convert fine, but some need
to be edited. Whenever you use Adobe to edit a file
invariable, if you try 2 or more edits you get the
temporary hang.

We could save the scanned files as TIFF, but I still
need something to convert them to searchable text,
smaller size, and make them editiable (to remove stray
marks from scanning). Do you have any suggestions?

 

[Kotuku]

Of all the programs I use in Vista, Adobe Acrobat Pro is
the one that performs the worst. Frequently while
editing a file the application window goes into the
"twilight zone" with the entire appliction window
becoming fuzzy and unresponsive sometimes for as long as
30 seconds. It does not completely hang, and eventually
responds. This happens on at least 3 different machines.
All have Quad Cores and with 4GB of memory and are
otherwise very responsive machines.

Is there an explantion for why Acrobat does this in
Vista?

Works perfectly for me for over a year. All updates installed. Vista
Ultimate x64 with 4 Gb RAM, so similar to you.

Is this after a scan into Adobe? You have various Scanner modes as well
as the possibility your scanner driver is at fault (WIA or TW?). I am
using a Brother Multifunction scanner/printer, MFC-665CW, again
faultless performance.

Kotuku

 

[JerryF]

We use a Savin copeier which copies the pdf image file
to a network drive. From there I move it to my Vista
Desktop and use the batch file capabilities to OCR the
documents.

It doesn't matter if its 1 or 20. Whenever I finish the
OCR process if I attempt to edit the file directly, or
close Adobe and attempt to edit it, after the 2nd or 3rd
edit it happens. It never really hangs just does this
"unresponsive state" for 20-30 seconds. I can then
finish editing the document. (By editing I may be
removing scanner lines, or images that are not necessary
in the file.)