Friday, December 08, 2006

Adobe Acrobat 8 Troubleshooting

According to Adobe's technical support website, those of us experiencing application freezes and instability may try this "Advanced Troubleshooting" suggestion:

Reformat the hard disk, and reinstall only Windows and Acrobat.

Are you kidding me?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you're just using the Reader, try Foxit Reader. It's free and it uses way less overhead than Acrobat. It's a little funny with advanced features, but for viewing PDFs it's great. And it's nice to have instant start-up instead of waiting for all those stupid Acrobat plug-ins to load every time.

http://foxitsoftware.com/

A.H. Rajani said...

thanks for the tip; i'll be sure to try it out, though I'll probably still need to keep acrobat around. i use the professional version to create pdf forms and review documents.

Anonymous said...

For writing PDFs, there are also a couple decent free programs. I've been using PDF Creator:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796&package_id=53473

Looks like you've already bought Acrobat, so no sense in going with the less-proven stuff. But nice to know there are alternatives. And the system resources that Acrobat takes up is inexcusable.

A.H. Rajani said...

i actually just installed a new add-on for Office 2007 that lets you 'save as XPS or PDF.' this add on is released by Microsoft and is insanely fast with fairly decent quality conversions.