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   dgreen | Sep 15, 2006 03:59am | #1

   In my opinion Adobe Acrobat is a buggy, slow, resource hungry, piece of spyware. Try using Foxit. It's a free pdf reader thats fast and bug free and does not continually reside in memory. Also does not phone home daily like Acrobat.

   http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

   Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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   kellyanderson | Sep 15, 2006 05:37am | #2

   Thanks for the response but I tried to use it and can not get it to do anything and now the pdfs will not open at all. Any ideas?

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   berlinbrian | Sep 15, 2006 05:38pm | #3

   I had this problem using firefox and acrobat reader with Office 2000.
   What I would do is open the task manager and under the processes tab, look for AcroRd32.exe. Select it and then hit the "end process" button. After that I did hit reload in the browser and the page usually loaded.I may have had this problem with my XP machine at home too. I don't think I have seen it since upgrading to Acrobat Reader 7.0 and making it the default reader for PDFs (as opposed to 6.0)Hope this helps.

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   forestgirl | Sep 15, 2006 06:41pm | #4

   For sure, verify you're using the most current version of Acrobat Reader.  I also make sure to close AR before opening a new .PDF document.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)