That annoying ad in Adobe Acrobat 7

Bri

Is there any chance of a way to move/hide that annoying ad in the top-right corner of the screen in Acrobat 6/7. I don't mind the pdf ones but linking to Yahoo toolbar...argh! I have adobe blocked by my firewall but seems the images are embedded in there.

So I'm probably clutching at straws...FF's adblock has got me so used to ad-free work that I guess I'm getting greedy?!

Civilian_Target

Well - you can either get acrobat 5 or use GhostScript instead.

Bri

Good point I don't get much benefit from the newer model...I simply needed to re-install so followed the link.

Stark

I love Acrobat 7, it's much faster than previous versions

To remove the ad, you can just go to Edit->Preferences->Startup and uncheck the item labeled "Show messages and automatically update".

Bri

Brilliant thanks Stark. I dunno how I failed to notice that. I guess I need buttons like "uncheck this box if you don't want to the annoyed".

Oh and Acrobat 7.0 is soo much prettier than before!

NotMe

Stark wrote:

I love Acrobat 7, it's much faster than previous versions

That's because it loads itself at startup. Look in the startup folder.

tman

NotMe wrote:

That's because it loads itself at startup. Look in the startup folder.

i removed its entry from the startup folder and it still seemed nippy to open after a cold boot.

Capt'n Midnight

Acrobat Reader

Edit - Preferences

Options
- Display PDF in Browser = Untick, causes problems with some docs on www.ros.ie
- check browser settings = Untick
- Allow fast web = Untick
- display splash screen = untick
- certidied plugins only = Tick

update
- check for updates manually

web buy
- enable web buy - untick

Anyone got a link to the folder that has all the addin junk - IIRC you can stop all that junk loading and it runs faster.

PDFCreator is a no brainer if you want to generate PDF docs' - its free

NotMe

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Anyone got a link to the folder that has all the addin junk - IIRC you can stop all that junk loading and it runs faster.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins

You can rename the plug_ins folder to plug_ins_disabled, create a new folder called plug_ins and copy over any plugins that you need.
Check Help>About Adobe plugins to see what the various plugins do.

Bri

There seems to be quite a few plugins in 7.0 that need to be kept.

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Maybe Imageviewer too?

AFAIK moving them to another folder won't crash it at all it'll just popup saying pluging missing when you try an action.

Also - does the plugins3d folder slow startup too? Never noticed that before.

daveirl

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