{"id":45,"date":"2007-08-13T21:22:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-08-19T11:10:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T18:10:51","slug":"speed-up-adobe-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"How to speed up Adobe Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\/software\/tweaks\/speed-up-adobe-reader-8-263500.php\">LifeHacker<\/a>, I came across this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsgeek.com\/?p=1192\">Adobe Reader tip<\/a> to reduce the lethargy with which it starts up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo remove this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, simply navigate to your %Program Files%\\Adobe\\Reader 8.0\\reader\\plug_ins folder, and rename (delete, copy elsewhere) the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaccessability.api\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 file.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translated into Mac-friendly coordinates, we have:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo remove this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, simply navigate to <b>\/Applications\/Adobe Reader\/Adobe Reader 7.0.8.app\/Contents\/Plug-ins<\/b>, and rename (delete, copy elsewhere) the <b>Accessibility.acroplugin\/ directory<\/b>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this &#8220;fixes&#8221; is Reader&#8217;s need to index the whole document so that it can, among other things, read it out loud to you.  No thanks, Adobe!<\/p>\n<p>I can confirm that Reader now loads in half the time it was taking before.  <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=304774\">Preview<\/a> is still my PDF reader of choice, since it&#8217;s so lightweight and lightning-fast, but now it&#8217;s at least worth keeping Reader around &#8220;just in case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The same source notes that Adobe may have improved the program on its own for version 8.1, so this hack may not be necessary in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy LifeHacker, I came across this great Adobe Reader tip to reduce the lethargy with which it starts up: To remove this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, simply navigate to your %Program Files%\\Adobe\\Reader 8.0\\reader\\plug_ins folder, and rename (delete, copy elsewhere) the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaccessability.api\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 file. Translated into Mac-friendly coordinates, we have: To remove this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, simply navigate to \/Applications\/Adobe Reader\/Adobe Reader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,13,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}