I've noticed recently that the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (9.3) has a really annoying tendency to stop for 30-60 seconds shortly after it starts up to read/display a PDF file. I don't see this on my Windows copies, just on CentOS.
Anyone know what's up with that?
Thanks.
mhr
MHR wrote:
I've noticed recently that the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (9.3) has a really annoying tendency to stop for 30-60 seconds shortly after it starts up to read/display a PDF file. I don't see this on my Windows copies, just on CentOS.
Anyone know what's up with that?
Thanks.
mhr
I use evince for reading PDFs.. just a suggestion.
Ryan
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@linux.com wrote:
I use evince for reading PDFs.. just a suggestion.
Doesn't really answer the question or address the issue, but thanks - it is an option.
Funny thing, though - I don't see the Document Viewer on my menus, even though I know it's around. Guess that's a separate topic, and a GNOME one at that....
mhr
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 09:42 -0800, MHR wrote:
I don't see the Document Viewer on my menus, even though I know it's around. Guess that's a separate topic, and a GNOME one at that....
"Document Viewer" is Evince. Right-click on a pdf file, select "Open with Document Viewer". Click on Help - About. See the About box describing Evince.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 09:42 -0800, MHR wrote:
I don't see the Document Viewer on my menus, even though I know it's around. Guess that's a separate topic, and a GNOME one at that....
"Document Viewer" is Evince. Right-click on a pdf file, select "Open with Document Viewer". Click on Help - About. See the About box describing Evince.
Thanks - I knew that. I was just noticing that it's not on my menus, that's all.
mhr
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@linux.com wrote:
I use evince for reading PDFs.. just a suggestion.
Let me elaborate a little.
Evince does not have a whole lot of features, which is fine until I need to do things like size the paper, print 2-up, etc.
True, it's a lot faster than AR, but it also doesn't do a lot of things that AR does.
So, does anyone know why AR takes forever to get going?
mhr
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@linux.com wrote:
I use evince for reading PDFs.. just a suggestion.
Let me elaborate a little.
Evince does not have a whole lot of features, which is fine until I need to do things like size the paper, print 2-up, etc.
True, it's a lot faster than AR, but it also doesn't do a lot of things that AR does.
So, does anyone know why AR takes forever to get going?
mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Try to run AR in a terminal and see error output
MHR wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@linux.com wrote:
I use evince for reading PDFs.. just a suggestion.
Let me elaborate a little.
Evince does not have a whole lot of features, which is fine until I need to do things like size the paper, print 2-up, etc.
True, it's a lot faster than AR, but it also doesn't do a lot of things that AR does.
So, does anyone know why AR takes forever to get going?
mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I believe that AR is a huge bit of software (see size of download) because Adobe bundle all the required libraries with it - thus no dependancies, thus when it starts it needs to reference all its own libraries and load them - no sharing or prelinking. I've probably not conveyed this in technically correct terms but hopefully you get idea. thus it will always be slow to start HTH
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:11 -0800, MHR wrote:
So, does anyone know why AR takes forever to get going?
No, but it takes about 5 secs to start up on a P4-1.7. That machine is 10 years old almost. How long are you talking about?
I just tried it on my 2.6GHz Athlon II X4 (new CPU I could not resist) and got this: ~4 seconds to display, then another 22 before it would do anything else (specifically, advance one page). During the wait, it just sits there and acts dead, kind of like SeaMonkey does when it decides to be cranky.
This only happens during the first load in a while - probably until the cache for its pages clear, or it may be going out on the web to check for updates, though this seems to take a long time.
If I run acroread in a terminal, all I get is this silly error, which is meaningless for all practical purposes IIRC:
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:69: error: invalid string constant "bluecurve-default", expected valid string constant /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve-Grape/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:69: error: invalid string constant "bluecurve-default", expected valid string constant
(This happens on most X-apps that are started in a terminal. I usually use an alias to start them that redirects the stderr output to /dev/null on those occasions where I want to use a command line startup.)
mhr
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 15:54 -0800, MHR wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:11 -0800, MHR wrote:
So, does anyone know why AR takes forever to get going?
No, but it takes about 5 secs to start up on a P4-1.7. That machine is 10 years old almost. How long are you talking about?
I just tried it on my 2.6GHz Athlon II X4 (new CPU I could not resist) and got this: ~4 seconds to display, then another 22 before it would do anything else (specifically, advance one page). During the wait, it just sits there and acts dead, kind of like SeaMonkey does when it decides to be cranky.
This will make you cringe, it is a P4B533 Asus Board. Do not be so sad though, my friend has a HP 64 Bit Athlon/VT ext., and this desktop will burn circles around his. They don't make them like they used to. I have a Athlon 64Bit 4000+ desktop also but somehow I just cant seem to leave this old one. Kernel = Linux ethies 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP on CentOS Bits i686
This only happens during the first load in a while - probably until the cache for its pages clear, or it may be going out on the web to check for updates, though this seems to take a long time.
Check the settings for adobe because honestly I had to change mine! the cache settings i think for adobe reading pages ahead into memory.
John
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:56 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
This only happens during the first load in a while - probably until the cache for its pages clear, or it may be going out on the web to check for updates, though this seems to take a long time.
Check the settings for adobe because honestly I had to change mine! the cache settings i think for adobe reading pages ahead into memory.
I wondered about that, but:
1) I haven't been able to find a setting for that in the 8+ versions of AR, and
2) this was a 2-page document - how could it be dead for 22 seconds just to read ahead one page?
mhr
MHR wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:56 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
This only happens during the first load in a while - probably until the cache for its pages clear, or it may be going out on the web to check for updates, though this seems to take a long time.
Check the settings for adobe because honestly I had to change mine! the cache settings i think for adobe reading pages ahead into memory.
I wondered about that, but:
I haven't been able to find a setting for that in the 8+ versions of AR, and
this was a 2-page document - how could it be dead for 22 seconds
just to read ahead one page?
Put a network sniffer on it. That may be when it calls home to check for updates.
Bob McConnell N2SPP
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 18:38 -0800, MHR wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:56 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
This only happens during the first load in a while - probably until the cache for its pages clear, or it may be going out on the web to check for updates, though this seems to take a long time.
Check the settings for adobe because honestly I had to change mine! the cache settings i think for adobe reading pages ahead into memory.
I wondered about that, but:
I haven't been able to find a setting for that in the 8+ versions of AR, and
this was a 2-page document - how could it be dead for 22 seconds
just to read ahead one page?
--- Look for Edit | Preferences | Reading | Screen Reader Options: Select For Large Documents only read the currently visible pages
Min number of pages in a large doc; 10
Those are what I had to change. If I open Red Hat Enterprise Deployment Guide.pdf from redhat.com it takes 5 secs for the whole PDF to load. That is with it on local disk or net share.
John
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:46 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
Look for Edit | Preferences | Reading | Screen Reader Options: Select For Large Documents only read the currently visible pages
Min number of pages in a large doc; 10
Interesting. Mine was set to 50, but when I changed it to 10, it loaded Sun's Microsoft Documents to OpenOffice Documents guide in a jiffy (not literally...) and was paging right away.
Still, I'll have to test that tomorrow - it doesn't make sense that a 2 page document would be so difficult.
mhr
MHR wrote:
I've noticed recently that the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (9.3) has a really annoying tendency to stop for 30-60 seconds shortly after it starts up to read/display a PDF file. I don't see this on my Windows copies, just on CentOS.
I am on Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64. Same thing also happening here.
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