Does anyone know why, when I try to open (or print) more than one PDF file, I can’t guarantee that all the files I selected will actually open? I understand why it would be slow — Windows warns you about this whenever you open a large number of files at once — but if I select thirty files, I want thirty files to open. Not three, or fifteen, or one.
I don’t really find I have this problem with other files. If I have thirty Word documents, for instance, I can select them all, click Open, and, although it will take a few minutes, they all will open. It’s really only with PDFs, and it happens regardless of whether I already have Adobe’s Acrobat reader up and running already or not.
I don’t actually know the answer, but I bet it’s something to do with the fact that Adobe Acrobat Reader is a resource pig, and probably also something to do with crappy old DDE.
What you should do is Google the keyword “Foxit” and just get rid of Acrobat.
Hmm…it looks like a decent program, and a much simpler reader than what Acrobat offers, but printing leaves a little something to be desired. I may play around with it some still, but for work purposes (at least some of the time), I may be stuck with Acrobat.
My problem yesterday might have something to do with the files in question being on a remote server. However, I seem to remember having had this problem before with files on my own drive.
Acrobat’s slowness in opening is definitely an issue. For my own personal use, reading PDFs, Foxit looks like a nice choice.
You should try opening up Acrobat before hand by just launching the program without opening a file. Than do your thing with the files. I noticed it tends to freak out less. This is true if you’re trying to open a pdf in your browser as well.
Nope, that didn’t work. I do that as a matter of course when opening any large number of files, but especially if they’re PDFs, since Acrobat is notoriously slow to open.
It’s definitely a good tip when opening PDFs on the web. Nine times out of ten that doesn’t work unless I open Acrobat first, or save the file and then open it.