I'm running Acrobat 8 Professional. Scenario: I've inserted a number of comments (editing-type comments) in a PDF (size can be from 50 pages to 400 pages or more).
Acrobat's performance becomes slower and slower whenever I add a new comment (any kind - a strikethrough, added text, a highlight, a note). I've had to wait as long as 10 seconds from the time I type the comment to when it appears in the PDF. During the 10 seconds, Acroat is frozen. This problem causes me to be very inefficient -- I can't review more than a few pages per day when this happens. The size of the file can doesn't seem to matter -- it's as if Acrobat reaches some limit of the amount of comments that I can place in the document, and then performance drops dramatically after that.
In previous versions of Acrobat (I've had the same problem in Acrobat 6 and Acrobat 7), not only was there a 10 second lag, but Acrobat would also automatically create a second copy of the file (identical to the original copy). I'd have to close Adobe and restart it -- after a while, Acrobat would create a new copy automatically again (both copies in sync).
Does anyone know why this lag time occurs and what I can do to correct it??
Thanks,
Paula Cross
See:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=1048
Which also links you to another similar thread, but response time is "discussed" in terms of JavaScript.
I divided my 3 page Spreadsheet form, into 3 files ... it speeds up the refresh 2x.