Acrobat is now very slow when creating forms (Please Help!)

[Joe Seven]

I've been experience incredibly slow performace on Acrobat while in Prepare Form editing mode. I've created many fillable forms in my day, and have not had any performance issues until a few days ago. The app seems to get overwhelmed when I do certain tasks like copy and paste check boxes or radio buttons, or when I'm renaming form elements. I'll see the spinning beach ball spin for 30-60 seconds, over and over as I try to create a form.

My iMac has 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD with 300GB free, so I feel like my hardware is up to the task. I'm on the latest version of Ventura (13.3.1) and have already unistalled Acrobat and reinstalled, which didn't fix the problem. 

I checked out Activity Monitor while trying to create a form in Acrobat, and it was showing that Acrobat was at times using up to 80% of my iMac's CPU... not sure if that's normal, but I'm assuming not. 

I'm getting stressed out because I have a client expecting finished PDF forms from me in a few days, and the software is preventing me from completing this job in any realistic timeframe. 

Can anyone provide tips for troubleshooting? 

Thank you! 

[Rishi32617749yrop]

Same problem!

[Joe Seven]

Find any solutions?

[JR Boulay]

First, you must be sure that this Preference option is disabled:

[Rishi32617749yrop]

Yes it is. 

Any other ideas?

This gets painfully slow when the form has multiple form fields and check boxes.

[JR Boulay]

Yes, but I'm afraid you won't like it: use the Windows version. 😉

[Joe Seven]

I have also been having serious performance issues in Photoshop. I just purchased 128GB of RAM to upgrade memory. I will report back if it helps the Acrobat Form problem.

[Abambo]

I have also been having serious performance issues in Photoshop. I just purchased 128GB of RAM to upgrade memory. I will report back if it helps the Acrobat Form problem.

By @Joe Seven

Photoshop and Acrobat are in no way products that can be compared. Their common denominator is Adobe. That's it.

[Joe Seven]

Useless comment. 

[Joe Seven]

Some other settings to try: https://macinteract.com/adobe-acrobat-optimisation