Very helpful background summary. I didn't realize Adobe had released a new full-install package. Nice to be rid of having to apply 7.01/7.02/7.03 updates.
So I installed it, opened a 2.5MB PDF file and page-down'd through the whole thing and only got up to 44MB of RAM for AcroRD32.exe. This is XP SP2 and 512MB of RAM. One thing you might try is PDFSpeedup. It removes a lot of junk from Adobe reader. It's here: http://www.acropdf.com/products.html You just run it, click Optimize, and you're done. If Adobe issues a patch, you'll need to reverse the optimizations in order to use the update function. You can also get rid of "Adobe Reader Speed Launch" in the common startup folder, after PDFSpeedup. In my test above, PDFSpeedup reduced AcroRd32.exe usage to 24MB after paging through the same PDF file Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Wilson Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 705 Adobe Reader and _Memory Usage_ What is the corrective action? By pressing Page Down with the PDF reader then all the available RAM memory is used up. That's over 200 Mega Bytes of RAM. Why? Background, while using: Adobe Reader 7.0.5 with WinXP with 512 MB RAM... Task Manager says: Memory Usage 27,000K AcroRd32.exe (no PDF file open, only application) 31,900K AcroRd32.exe (with a 2,700K PDF file, 84 pages) 230,000K AcroRd32.exe (Pressing Page Down), then 30,000K AcroRd32.exe (no PDF file open, only application) That's over 200 Mega Bytes of RAM to scroll half way down a PDF of 84 pages. What's happening? What is the corrective action? -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
