Adobe Reader Laggy While Scrolling

[Scheer]

I have a brand new Lenovo E531 that is freezing up for a split second when scrolling. Specs are i5-3230M and 4 GB of RAM, nothing all that powerful, but it should be more than enough to load up a PDF... Everything else loads up nice and speedy, this is the only issue the computer is having.

 

CPU usage is around 10-20% when scrolling thru, and RAM is 40-50% so nothing I can tell is overloaded, I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Adobe Reader to no avail. I though maybe HDD being the issue, but wouldn't it just load into RAM? They are typically 50MB PDF's and Adobe uses 50MB when there isn't a PDF open and 100MB when the PDF is open, so I assume it is going into RAM.

 

I'm simply lost as to why it would not be able to scroll smoothly thru a PDF, I dusted off my 4 year old AMD Turion laptop with 2 GB of RAM (and Windows 7) and it scrolls thru the same PDF just fine.

 

Before other programs are suggested, I have tried several and none of them will open these PDF's correctly, the menu's get all weird on me and you loose the table of contents on half of them.

[Kev]

Here is how to fix all Adobe Reader problems.

 

1. Uninstall Adobe Reader.

2. Install either Foxit Reader or Sumatra PDF.

 

I personally use Foxit.

[roberto++]

are these PDFs from images or scanned documents?

 

how large of a PDF are you attempting to open?

 

what version of adobe reader are you using? under help -> about adobe reader

 

I have a brand new Lenovo E531 that is freezing up for a split second when scrolling. Specs are i5-3230M and 4 GB of RAM, nothing all that powerful, but it should be more than enough to load up a PDF... Everything else loads up nice and speedy, this is the only issue the computer is having.

 

CPU usage is around 10-20% when scrolling thru, and RAM is 40-50% so nothing I can tell is overloaded, I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Adobe Reader to no avail. I though maybe HDD being the issue, but wouldn't it just load into RAM? They are typically 50MB PDF's and Adobe uses 50MB when there isn't a PDF open and 100MB when the PDF is open, so I assume it is going into RAM.

 

I'm simply lost as to why it would not be able to scroll smoothly thru a PDF, I dusted off my 4 year old AMD Turion laptop with 2 GB of RAM (and Windows 7) and it scrolls thru the same PDF just fine.

 

Before other programs are suggested, I have tried several and none of them will open these PDF's correctly, the menu's get all weird on me and you loose the table of contents on half of them.

[Scheer]

Here is how to fix all Adobe Reader problems.

 

1. Uninstall Adobe Reader.

2. Install either Foxit Reader or Sumatra PDF.

 

I personally use Foxit.

 

I didn't try Sumatra, but Foxit didn't work at all. I can open them but loose the TOC and Menu structure.

 

are these PDFs from images or scanned documents?

 

how large of a PDF are you attempting to open?

 

what version of adobe reader are you using? under help -> about adobe reader

 

They are 300-600 page service manuals, mostly just text with a few simplistic images. Size is typically around 50MB, and Reader version is 11.0.04.

[IdeaStormer]

@Scheer

 

Although for printing some if it will affect you viewing PDF's as well, see below and its straight from Adobe so don't kill the messenger, and so much for Portable Document Format.

 

Troubleshooting PDF Printing: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/troubleshoot-pdf-printing-acrobat-reader.html

 

Printing Complex PDF's: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/printing-complex-pdfs-acrobat.html

 

I have found printing a PDF to a PDF Printer (either Adobe PDF, PDF Creator, CutePDF) usually fixes a ton of issues with PDF's.

 

Almost forgot, using pretty much any other viewer other than Acrobat usually either fixes or reveals the problem with the PDF, on Linux you could use xpdf which is a bare bones PDF viewer which if you can't view it with that the PDF is hosed for sure.

[Scheer]

@Scheer

 

Although for printing some if it will affect you viewing PDF's as well, see below and its straight from Adobe so don't kill the messenger, and so much for Portable Document Format.

 

Troubleshooting PDF Printing: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/troubleshoot-pdf-printing-acrobat-reader.html

 

Printing Complex PDF's: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/printing-complex-pdfs-acrobat.html

 

I have found printing a PDF to a PDF Printer (either Adobe PDF, PDF Creator, CutePDF) usually fixes a ton of issues with PDF's.

 

Almost forgot, using pretty much any other viewer other than Acrobat usually either fixes or reveals the problem with the PDF, on Linux you could use xpdf which is a bare bones PDF viewer which if you can't view it with that the PDF is hosed for sure.

 

Its not a PDF issue, its a computer issue. They are fine on other computers with the same version of Adobe reader.

[myheartem]

Adobe Reader is a powerful solution which enables you to view,  print, and make notes for PDF documents quickly and easily.  In addition, you can also create new, set protection password, zoom in/zoom out the page, select and find text, print, bookmark the pages, etc.