On 08/03/2004, at 10:00 AM, James Devenish wrote:
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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"?
For most PDFs, I find Preview (the Panther version at least) every bit
as good as Acrobat Reader, and in several ways better. It's certainly
much faster, supports cut & paste, text searches, links, etc, and can
export your pages to other graphic formats if required. Even printing
to odd/even pages is supported through Panther's printing framework, so
there's not much of importance missing.
I still find Acrobat Reader preferable when using Jaguar, though, since
almost none of these things are true of Jag's Preview except the
exporting stuff.
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Peter Hinchliffe
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