What the fuck is Adobe Reader X preparing my documents for, and how the fuck do I stop it?

Arch

So I have Adobe reader X, and whenever I open a PDF I get this popup. It is super fucking annoying as "preparing" the document takes several minutes. On top of that, I can't open multiple documents at the same time because the combined "preparation" crashes Adobe. Also sometimes it just crashes during this step for no fucking reason.

This is a picture of what happens

Now, I don't just want someone to go "LOL ADOBE SUX GET X OTHER PROGRAM". What I want is to know WHY Adobe is doing this, WHAT it is doing, and what fucking setting I turn off so that it STOPS doing this.

I have looked through a bunch of the menus and have no clue where to start.

Thanks in advance

Korlash

I'm not sure this is something you can "turn off". PDF files can sometimes take a lot of resources to load, particularly on a slow computer. My understanding is that it's just loading the file here, and taking its sweet time doing it.

Djeet

When you want to avoid this shit along with perpetual prompts to update itself, check out Foxit.

Arch

Korlash wrote:

I'm not sure this is something you can "turn off". PDF files can sometimes take a lot of resources to load, particularly on a slow computer. My understanding is that it's just loading the file here, and taking its sweet time doing it.

That is very confusing- my computer is not "slow". I run at 2.2ghz and have 4gb of ram running Windows 7. I should have no problem opening PDF files but if that is what you think I guess I will go with it.

Previous versions of Adobe on this machine didn't have this problem though...

Djeet wrote:

When you want to avoid this shit along with perpetual prompts to update itself, check out Foxit.

Okay I literally said "please don't just recommend an alternative". This is more of a curiosity thing at this point. Also I don't feel like downloading and installing a program right now, but using Foxit is on my list of things to do next week.

TychoCelchuuu

It's an accessibility thing you can turn off.

Calling Adobe Reader shit would be too generous because shit actually serves its function pretty well. It clears crap out of your body. Adobe Reader, meanwhile, was largely designed to keep people from reading PDFs. Just use Foxit. I know you didn't want the "ADOBE SUX USE ANOTHER PROGRAM" answer but that's a lot like asking "guys my car keeps exploding, how come, and don't tell me to get something other than a Ford Pinto." Sure, we can tell you why your Ford Pinto is exploding, but the answer is basically "Pintos blow, get a better car."

In sum, Foxit, please, or at least Sumatra.

Arch

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

It's an accessibility thing you can turn off.

Calling Adobe Reader shit would be too generous because shit actually serves its function pretty well. It clears crap out of your body. Adobe Reader, meanwhile, was largely designed to keep people from reading PDFs. Just use Foxit. I know you didn't want the "ADOBE SUX USE ANOTHER PROGRAM" answer but that's a lot like asking "guys my car keeps exploding, how come, and don't tell me to get something other than a Ford Pinto." Sure, we can tell you why your Ford Pinto is exploding, but the answer is basically "Pintos blow, get a better car."

In sum, Foxit, please, or at least Sumatra.

This is what I was looking for, thanks.