On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 18:38 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:56 PM, JohnS <jses27 at 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? --- 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