Adobe Acrobat Reader is a Giant Behemoth

[Quattro Pete]

I've tried a bunch of other PDF readers out there, including FoxIt and some others. Once in a while I'd run into a PDF file that these third party readers would not render correctly, so I ended up going back to Adobe Reader DC. Honestly, I don't see it hogging up any significant amount of resources on my PC.

If you're looking for a low resource footprint reader, apparently Sumatra PDF is another good one to try.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
I've tried a bunch of other PDF readers out there, including FoxIt and some others. Once in a while I'd run into a PDF file that these third party readers would not render correctly, so I ended up going back to Adobe Reader DC. Honestly, I don't see it hogging up any significant amount of resources on my PC.

If you're looking for a low resource footprint reader, apparently Sumatra PDF is another good one to try.


That's my experience as well. I like a number of Adobe applications including Photoshop. I don't find Reader DC to be heavy on either of my macs either

 

[Merkava_4]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
That's my experience as well. I like a number of Adobe applications including Photoshop. I don't find Reader DC to be heavy on either of my macs either

Adobe is too heavy for my 2007 MBP. The Soda Reader on the other hand, I can leave it open all the time and doesn't have any impact on overall speed. Before starting this thread, I thought Adobe Reader was the only reader available besides Mac's built in Preview. This thread has been a huge success for me.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
That's my experience as well. I like a number of Adobe applications including Photoshop. I don't find Reader DC to be heavy on either of my macs either

Adobe is too heavy for my 2007 MBP. The Soda Reader on the other hand, I can leave it open all the time and doesn't have any impact on overall speed. Before starting this thread, I thought Adobe Reader was the only reader available besides Mac's built in Preview. This thread has been a huge success for me.

PDF is an open format, so anyone can make software to read and write it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

That does not prevent proprietary software vendors from extending the format.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
That's my experience as well. I like a number of Adobe applications including Photoshop. I don't find Reader DC to be heavy on either of my macs either

Adobe is too heavy for my 2007 MBP. The Soda Reader on the other hand, I can leave it open all the time and doesn't have any impact on overall speed. Before starting this thread, I thought Adobe Reader was the only reader available besides Mac's built in Preview. This thread has been a huge success for me.

How much RAM do you have? Both my rigs have 16GB.

 

[Quattro Pete]

FYI, when I have a particularly large PDF open with Reader DC on my W7 laptop, all the Acrobat processes combined take up about 200 MB. I have 8GB RAM.

 

[Garak]

Merk, another cross platform option is Evince.

 

[MoneyJohn]

Have you looked at pdf x-change viewer. It can do everything Adobe can do but efficiently. Its been more than a decade, I have not touched adobe reader. I used to use Sumatra pdf but I annotate pdfs a lot. X-change Viewer serves very well, available as portable as well if you wish

 

[JGmazda]

Originally Posted By: MoneyJohn
Have you looked at pdf x-change viewer. It can do everything Adobe can do but efficiently. Its been more than a decade, I have not touched adobe reader. I used to use Sumatra pdf but I annotate pdfs a lot. X-change Viewer serves very well, available as portable as well if you wish


Agreed. Haven't used Adobe in years except for at work. It's just as the OP stated: "A Giant Behemoth".

I still use Sumatra PDF and think it's great. It not a full function viewer though if you need make changes and annotate. Anything "but" Adobe would be my advice as there are many nice alternative PDF readers.

 

[OVERKILL]

There was a giant behemoth of memory usage on my Mac Pro today and it wasn't Acrobat.....

 

[Garak]

Isn't running Microsoft stuff on a Mac going to get you put on Apple's Most Wanted list or something like that?

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Garak
Isn't running Microsoft stuff on a Mac going to get you put on Apple's Most Wanted list or something like that?

Probably, LOL

 

[ZeeOSix]

Acrobat Reader only uses 60 Mb with one PDF opened up on my Windows 7 machine. Of course as you open more and more PDFs at the same time the memory use increases. With 5 pretty large PDFs open the memory went up to 130 Mb. That's pretty small beans in today's memory use world IMO.

 

[dishdude]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
There was a giant behemoth of memory usage on my Mac Pro today and it wasn't Acrobat.....





Everyone claims Chrome is a resource hog, but it runs great on every machine I use it on.

and dare I say I am loving W10?

 

[OVERKILL]

My Chrome is probably using a couple of GB, but I have 46 tabs open, so I think that's quite acceptable

Skype on the other hand.... LOL! I updated it and it seems to be hovering around 126MB now, but that was nuts!

 

[dishdude]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
My Chrome is probably using a couple of GB, but I have 46 tabs open, so I think that's quite acceptable

Skype on the other hand.... LOL! I updated it and it seems to be hovering around 126MB now, but that was nuts!

I totally missed that! LOL

 

[OVERKILL]

Yet you quoted the picture, LMAO!!!

 

[dishdude]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Yet you quoted the picture, LMAO!!!

This is why I shouldn't drink and post

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: dishdude
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Yet you quoted the picture, LMAO!!!

This is why I shouldn't drink and post

LOL!!!! No worried bud, I've had a couple Stella's too, sitting here, listening to music, wife has passed out already, fun times

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: Garak
Isn't running Microsoft stuff on a Mac going to get you put on Apple's Most Wanted list or something like that?

Probably, LOL

Reminds me of this: