does Acrobat 8 Pro have mem hogg problem like xp version does?

[zynizen]

I downloaded free acrobat 8 reader on my asus laptop running xp pro, and it crashes and slows the system down soo much, I found it was a memory problem, with acroupdater.exe, constantly running in the background.

when I remove it from the startup (using msconfig) it still has issues until un-installation.

question is, does acrobat 8 professional / acrobat 8 reader do the same on the mac? I dont want to mess my MacBook Pro up by installing a memory hog..

any thoughts appreciated.

thanks

[Flying Meat]

Acrobat Reader 8 is universal binary I think. While that fact alone does not answer your specific question, it should be peppier than anything that has to run under Rosetta.

Acrobat Pro is not universal binary, which means additional overhead due to running under Rosetta. I can tell you it is a hog on my MacBook Pro. It's still usablew, just markedly bloaty and resource hungry (and I hate that it adds a toolbar to Office [which is also a bloaty and resource hungry collection of non-universal binary apps]) reducing the visable document workspace even further.

Don't get me wrong. Rosetta is impressive for what it does, and what it costs.

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by Flying Meat

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Acrobat Pro is not universal binary, ...

Not true. Adobe Acrobat Professional is very much Universal Binary.

[Flying Meat]

woops! My mistake.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/11/...at.8.released/

Obviously I haven't tried it out yet. :P

[zynizen]

sounds like a winner. The PC version however, does NOT run in rosetta.. and is still a memory hog and crashes the pc. could this be something else?