From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Just an aside, the latest Adobe Reader 7 is LIGHT years ahead on speed over
the bloat that was 6.  I wonder if the full Adobe 7 is faster as well?

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Glenn M.
"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
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> I've noticed two things:
>
> 1. With non-trival documents OpenOffice generates the PDF significantly
> faster, using perhaps 1/3 the time.
> 2. With complicated PowerPoint graphics Acrobat sometimes generates a
> slide
> that takes several seconds to render in Adobe reader. I've rarely seen
> this
> behavior with OpenOffice.
>
> Both programs seem to have problems with embedded artwork - colors shift,
> blotches appear, z-order gets messed up. Seems to be related to color
> palette management, but that's just a guess on my part.
>
> My boss was in a meeting with an Adobe executive recently. The Adobe
> executive was very surprised to see how much faster the OpenOffice
> generation was.
>
> YMMV of course.
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> Regards,
> Dave Ings,
> Toronto, Canada
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>> "Dave Ings"  wrote in message
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>> > It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but (free) OpenOffice
> has
>> > built-in PDF generation. I also have a licensed version of Adobe
> Acrobat,
>> > and I find that OpenOffice's PDF generation is frequently superior to
> "the
>> > real thing" in Acrobat.
>>
>> Really? What's the difference?
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>>
>
>

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