MHR wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Pugatch <rpug at 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 at 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100130/3a33be09/attachment-0005.vcf>