Gemal's Psyched Blog - Comments on Slow Acrobat Reader

By rojaro

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:39:42 +0100

Really good tip, thanks :)

By Helmut

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:08:00 +0100

Also speeds up Acrobat 5 ....

By Anders Raben Hansen

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100

Excellent tip! Here's the batchfile i wrote:

@set x=%ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Acrobat\Reader\plug_ins
@move %x%\. %x%_disabled
@md %x%
@move %x%_disabled\EWH32.api %x%
@move %x%_disabled\Search.api %x%
@set x=

...where x is the only variable.

By

Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:54:29 +0100

Very cool, it's become so damn bloated :(

This trick helped a lot!

By

Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:59:11 +0100

Another nice thing is that it (not suprisingly) uses much less memory now :)

By rose

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:40:58 +0100

Adobe 6.0 too slow

By

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:44:16 +0100

Just a comment, I tried out a new test of ebooks the libraries in Denmark have started (more info: http://downlaan.dk/). Those ebooks needs some of the plugins for it to work. So I guess the plugins are being used for something :)

By Anders Raben Hansen

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:22:33 +0100

Jørgen Ramskov: post the freaking plug-ins so the rest of us knows.

By liorean

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 03:13:02 +0100

Well, from it's name, I would guess "eBook.api" is one of them. Don't know what else is required, if anything, though I can imagine "DigSig.api" is also required.

By Ray Ehrlich

Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:01:53 +0100

One of the best tech tips I have found in a long time. Thanks.

By

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 16:59:59 +0100

Anders RH: I haven't researched what plugins it needs, sorry.

By aam

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:52:53 +0100

The adobe tweak tip definatly makes for a quick loading time! Thank You!

By aam

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:15:36 +0100

I kept 9AcroSign.prc,EWH32,Search and Search5.. works great!

By Chris

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:14:51 +0100

Trying the above recommendation, I did notice that hyperlinks to external documents no longer work, and you are prompted with a dialog box saying a plug-in is required. Figuring it was likely the weblink.api, I added that back in to the plug-ins folder, but it looks like there is another dependency as well. I am going to start adding files and folders back in and see if I can find out which other file(s) are necessary. If anyone else has already found the answer, please let us know!

By Srinivasa

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:41:05 +0100

See the file "Optional/README.TXT". It says :

Put unused plug-ins in the optional directory.

That says it all. Possibly, Acrobat Reader picks up a plugin from this directory on demand when such
facility is required dynamically. So instead of moving un-used plugins to plugins_bak directory, move it to "Optional" directory.

By Chris

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:37:04 +0100

Great idea to try the Optional folder and see if the files would move as they are needed. You'd think that Adobe would do just that, but alas, it isn't so. The Optional folder works just like the Plug_ins_disabled folder suggestion; it is just a holding place. As for making the hyperlink work, in addition to weblink.api, I had to also add EScript.api back in to the Plug_ins folder.

By larry

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 02:50:18 +0100

Thanks to all for posting this info.

By thierrybo

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:25:03 +0100

Works too with acrobat reader 7. The minimum seems to be :
EScript.api, Search5.api, Searc.api, Weblink.api.

However, text that was highlighted with the full acrobat tool only displays the outline of the highlighted area, not the full background.

By Ben

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:18 +0100

Quick note. If you want to speed up Acrobat go here:
http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/software/index.php?type=supported&id=7F7290B5

and here:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/acroread.html#win-ar6-speed