In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:33:06AM +0800, Robert Howells wrote: > If only AR 6 would load as fast as AR5 it would be a pleasure
What can be do about this? All the "Creative Suite" apps are implausibly slow (I can't even express it in words because it sounds like I'm exaggerating). Acrobat Reader is a brilliant example -- I still use version 3 because it's so much faster than any subsequent version (fast at starting up, faster at displaying pages, faster at finding text, faster at scrolling, etc, etc). Each version gets slower in a way that is measurable with a wall clock. My other concern about Acrobat Reader is just how bad it is at rendering text. Most of my PDF usage is for technical materials. The typical "office documents" serif typefaces are rendered poorly for on-screen reading. Comparatively, text in Acrobat 4 is "stunning" (and WYSIWYG!). Acrobat 5.0 was a downhill slide for the user interface, too (I thought). For those with Macs and Mac OS X, thankfully Apple has the 'Preview' app. Anyone know what the rest of the world does? Is everyone just "putting up with it"?
