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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: stottm on Jul 16, '03 11:37:10AM

Wow, major difference! I'll be doing this on the Winblows boxen as well. Adobe 6 is a pig with all of the plugins that I'll never use!

Load time is considerably faster now. Thanks for the tip!

To clarify on how to disable the plugins, use Get Info on the Acrobat 6 icon and there's a plugins section where you can disable each plugin. You may wish to review what they are so click the Apple menu while Acrobat is open and click the About Adobe Plugins menu item. This tells you what each plugin does and it shows what plugins each may be dependent on.

This will hold one over till Panther ships with it's new Preview.app that can read PDF's much faster.



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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: dansroka on Jul 16, '03 12:02:29PM

Thank you for this hint! What a time saver. And thanks for the explanation of how to disable the plug ins and how to find what they do.



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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: bluehz on Jul 16, '03 12:31:37PM

Some of those plugins are genuinely useful. I must admit - I have Acro 6 but prefer Acro 5 because Acro 6 Reader is so dog slow. So I tried this hint - going through the list and weeding out a few... some I have no idea what they are. Here's what I left enabled:

PictureTasks
AcroForm.acroplugin
Reflow.acroplugin
ImageViewer.acroplugin
SaveAsRTF.acroplugin
PDDom.acroplugin
Multimedia.acroplugin
Search.acroplugin
WebLink.acroplugin

Launched Acro 6 Reader, sure enough it launched a lot faster, then took a nose dive and crashed out - some error about AcroForms not loading properly.

Is there some sort of reference to what each of these plugins do so I might make a more educated decision on what to enable/disable?



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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: MtnBiker on Jul 16, '03 02:20:57PM

Look under AdobeReader>About Adobe Plug-ins and it tells you what other plug-ins are needed to support that plug in. The Dependencies tells you what is required to work and what is required for full funtionality. A pain having to edit the Plug-ins in Get Info and then check what's needed in About…

Thanks for the hint.

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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: bluehz on Jul 16, '03 05:40:58PM

Thx MtnBiker - I never even knew that was there. What an excellent resource - just what I was looking for. I managed to turn all these off:

MakeAccessible.acroplugin
PictureTasks
PrintMe.acroplugin
SendMail.acroplugin
SOAP.acroplugin
Updater.acroplugin

and got a nice little speed boost.



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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: garyvand on Sep 04, '03 04:35:46PM

Any idea how to disable plug-ins on a Windows box?
I can't find the equivalent of Get Info.



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