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Printing PDF files

All of a sudden my desktop computer takes a while to load a PDF, job notice, and print it. Whether it's one page or 5 pages. I uninstalled Adobe Reader and reinstalled it and that didn't help. Anyone know what could be causing this? Same printer all along, no other printing issues.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber) on March 8, 2013 at 9:29

I'd be curious how the PDF printing behaves in another PDF program. I use Primo PDF to create PDFs. I also have PDF Converter Professional 8.1. As an experiment, you can email me one of those and I'll print it and report back how fast it takes. marge201 at gmail

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Permalink Reply by Kerry F on March 8, 2013 at 16:12

Thanks, I'll try that. But it only started doing this the past six months or so. Never used to. No software changes either. And some of the PDFs that are attached to emails print okay and other take different lengths of time.

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Permalink Reply by Kerry F on April 21, 2013 at 14:54

Okay, I'm revisiting this issue. Why are scanned PDF files taking SOOOOO long to open? Even if I save them off the email or they are PDFs I made myself of exhibits. they take forever to open on all my computers.All my Windows 7 computers, that is. I haven't tried it on my one laptop that has XP. But I never had this issue except for the past 9 or 10 months and it's getting worse.

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Permalink Reply by Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber) on April 21, 2013 at 17:28

Something is definitely wrong. If you right-click on a saved PDF and select the program to open it with, is it ihe same difference? How long does a PDF take to open in varying programs? How many pages are these PDFs?

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Permalink Reply by Kerry F on April 21, 2013 at 18:22

Marge, sometimes it's just 3 or 4 page notice and sometimes 20 or 30 pages. And I've already uninstalled adobe reader and reinstalled it. And it's the same issue on two computers with

Windows 7. I haven't tried the right clicking. I'll try that. But I never used to have to so that.

Okay, I just tried the right click and "open with" and it was immediate. But why have I not had to do that in the past? Is it Adobe's updates?

Or it opens up right away, but then as I scroll through the pages, it says "not responding" and takes a while to load or something so I can access the whole document.

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Permalink Reply by Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber) on April 21, 2013 at 18:45

It sounds like you have only one PDF reader on your computer. The idea of right-clicking was to try opening a PDF with a different program. Since Adobe is your only PDF program, the problem must be Adobe. I use PrimoPDF to create PDFs. Why won't you download that program and then "open with" PrimoPDF for opening a PDF and see if there's a lag of not responding after a PDF is opened. And then make it your default PDF program and see what happens when you then double-click on it, how long it takes to open.

http://www.primopdf.com/