Adobe Reader 8 100% CPU

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CZOLG · #1 Post by **CZOLG** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:34 am

Hi everybody.
I recently installed the latest version of Adobe Reader, that is the 8th.
Unfortunately, it has been working quite fine for about a day, and after that something clearly went wrong.
Few seconds after launching, the process takes 100% of my CPU and does not go down, does not matter if I use the Reader or some document just stays open. It is always 100%.
I posted this on the Adobe forum and apparently a few people have the same issue.
I was wondering, maybe it is due to some other Thinkpad software that runs in the background?
Anybody experienced similar behaviour?

pianowizard · #2 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:45 am

Perhaps it's downloading an update in the background? When that happens, it can slow things down big time. There's probably an option to prevent it from downloading updates automatically.

CZOLG · #3 Post by **CZOLG** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:03 pm

I checked that.
First I blocked it from connecting to the internet, but after a second I realized that it may make the matters worse.
So I just ran an updater, but no updates were found. I then switched to manual updates.
This did not help.

mi2ke · #4 Post by **mi2ke** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:11 pm

I upgraded to Version 8 as well because I though it would be able to handle Word 2007 Files. But its not working, I get an error.

I found the Microsoft Addon for saving Files as PDF, so bloated Adobe Acrobat is now pretty obsolete - HURRAY!

pianowizard · #5 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:12 pm

mi2ke wrote:I found the Microsoft Addon for saving Files as PDF, so bloated Adobe Acrobat is now pretty obsolete - HURRAY!

Wow, that's a huge discovery! Where did you find it?

K0LO · #6 Post by **K0LO** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:47 pm

I'd go cautiously with the Microsoft PDF add-on for Office 2007. I've been using it for a few weeks now and thought it was pretty nice at first; converting about 3 times faster than Adobe's product. However, the files that the Microsoft converter produces are somewhat whacked up. They never have the quality of the Adobe converter, looking somewhat low-resolution. Sometimes the Microsoft converter produces a file that's corrupted and unreadable or missing certain graphic elements. You have to check its output carefully.

I can't trust it any longer, so for now I've gone back to Acrobat 7.

CZOLG · #7 Post by **CZOLG** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:09 pm

The OpenOffice has the plugin too, although I had not tested it yet.
The problem with the CPU usage however concerns the Adobe Reader.
Seems I am the only one with the problem, must be some sort of conflict with different sotware I have installed.

pianowizard · #8 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:14 pm

CZOLG wrote:Seems I am the only one with the problem, must be some sort of conflict with different sotware I have installed.

Yes. Adobe Reader 8 runs fine on a 233MHz Pentium MMX desktop computer in my lab!

mi2ke · #9 Post by **mi2ke** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:29 pm

k0lo wrote: I can't trust it any longer, so for now I've gone back to Acrobat 7.

Adobe 7 wasn't working on my word 2007 file. but this could be due to some special effects I added to a picture (mirroring). MS converter did a good Job but i didn't checked the image quality/dpi. However, I totally believe in your description that Microsofts doesn't hold on to the PDF standard, as they did in the past to other standards and will ever do.

You can find the Microsoft Office 2007 PDF Plugin here (its for free):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

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