how to disable "fast web view" in a document

[Guest]

I would like to take an existing pdf document and *disable* the "fast web view" option that was enabled on it. How do I do that? OS X 10.6.8.

Now, opening the document in Acrobat 7.14, I can look in Document Properties:Description and see "Fast Web View: Yes". In Document Properties:Security everything is allowed. So I go to Preferences:Internet where the "Fast Web View" box is unchecked. I save the document. I reopen the newly saved document, and see that Fast Web View is still enabled! Huh? How do you turn it off??? I want to see "Fast Web View: No".

[Dave Merchant]

Why? All it does is place the file's internal data in a different order so it can render page 1 before the download's completed. The quality of the page content isn't affected at all.

[Guest]

Pretty simple. We're not talking about page content. "Fast Web View" adds *hundreds* of 206 requests to my Apache log each time such files are downloaded in this way. That is, when people download a 10 MB pdf file 16 KB at a time, it makes for six hundred separate requests, each one of which is a line in my log. It just makes review of my Apache logs harder. I actually don't care too much that people won't be able do fast web view on these files that I'm offering them.

[Guest]

You can't really turn it OFF in Acrobat.  When you do a "Save As" in Acrobat, what happens is that all the objects get reordered and then the PDF is set for "Fast Web View".  So it is kind of ON by default when you do a "Save As".   If you don't want your Apache server to do byte range requests then turn it OFF at the Apache Web Server.  I wouldn't recommend it but it's probably documented in Apache's documentation or list serves. 

Here is a one that I Googled. Double check it because the reference is pretty old (4 years).

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200912.mbox/%3C4B1ECDD4.10403@ice-sa.com%3Eves.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200912.mbox/%3C4B1ECDD4.10403@ice-sa.com%3E

[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

You can set a user preference in Acrobat so that when you do a Save As it is not linearized: Edit > Preferences > Documents > Save Settings > Save As optimizes for Fast Web View [deselect]

So just deselect this preference and do a Save As.

[Guest]

Actually, in my Acrobat 7, the right box to uncheck is  in Preferences>General "Save As optimizes for Fast Web View"

There are "fast web view" check boxes all over the place in Acrobat (see, for example, also in PDF Optimizer" and Preferences>Internet), but unchecking those boxes doesn't obviously do anything. Confusing!

But unchecking it in Preferences>General works! When I do that, and do a Save As, the saved file no longer has "fast web view" enabled. Excellent.

Thanks!

[George_Johnson]

Some of those other settings have to do with what gets set by default when you create a document, so it would make sense to deselect them so that any PDFs you create in the future with Acrobat are not linearized.

[HyperDudeL]

This is so old none of the menus are constructed like this any more. can we delete this info and get more recent response to problem/

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Why delete it?

Fast Web View is still in many dialogues to export PDFs. And the info about Fast Web View is still valid. Might need to be updated by Adobe engineers and some of our Forum experts.

[Implementatio28447405q7kt]

It looks like fast web view is now under Preferences>Internet rather than General!

[Test Screen Name]

Acrobat changes a lot - but all the info about menus and locations is still absolutely correct, I don't know why anyone would say it is obsolete. There are two different options in Preferences.

One is under Documents : "Save as optimizes for fast web view". This affects the documents you save (and hence, allows you to turn it off for that file). This is a useful option.

One is under Internet: "Allow fast web view". This affects how Acrobat loads documents from the web. But nobody uses Acrobat to download documents from the web any more! They use their web browser, which doesn't touch Acrobat. This option, then, that was just recommended is actually the obsolete one...

[Implementatio28447405q7kt]

This makes a lot of sense, thank you!