Acrobat freezing OSX

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AtillaUK

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About giving up on trying to find a solution to Acrobat freezing OSX. I am running Acrobat 6.0 Professional and also Acrobat Reader 7.0 on OS 10.3.7 on a G5. Acrobat seems to be having problems opening PDF files whether supplied from various external sources or created by me from within Quark 6.5. Using the open dialog from within Acrobat, double clicking the PDF icon or dragging the PDF file to the Acrobat icon in the dock causes Acrobat to start and when about to open the file completely freeze the Mac.
Adobe sent me a "help" file which didn't, the problem happens both with Professional and Reader. I have uninstalled, re-installed, dumbed plists, disabled Adobe plug-ins all to no avail. Help!
 
Hi AtillaUK and welcome to the forum.
Do you have the same probs with apples preview.app?
One solution is to delete these files: 'com.adobe.acrobat.sh.plist' and 'com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer.plist' in your home/Library/Preferences/ folder.
Good luck!
 
Many thanks Zammy-Sam
Tried suggestions but makes no difference still freezes solid. I have even tried switching off all other applications and even that makes no difference!! Doomed I think!
 
Can you try making a new user account and trying to open the offending PDF files under that new account? This could narrow the problem down to something specific to your user account.
 
Dear Zammy-Sam, Preview seems to work just fine and opens all the PDFs I have been having problems with. Thanks again
 
hehe, seems like you are satisfied with using apples preview and don't want to deal with acrobat anymore. That's ok. But if you want to fix the problem with your acrobat, you should try what Eldiablo proposed you.
 
Preview is a very good app. I've found it to be much faster than Acrobat Reader. Only problem is Acrobat Reader seems to render text in certain documents in a much more readable way on the screen while Preview seems to make the text fuzzy. For an example of such documents, just download something from Citeseer and you'll see what I mean.

I guess these are PDFs that were generated using Ghostscript.
 
Yeah, those are PDFs generated from LaTeX using the embedded bitmapped computer modern fonts. They are big and hard to render properly anti-aliased. If you are lucky and they actually used vector CM fonts then they will be much prettier. Not to mention like 300K smaller ;)
 
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