Turn off feature which is responsible for messages like "rotating images", "decomposing page", "deskewing image" + question about font

Report · May 25, 2009

Hello

Does anyone know how I turn off this feature in Adobe Acrobat 9.0 and/or Adobe Reader? When i use Acrobat (and Reader for that matter) on my own notebook (Vista w/ SP1), I get this message all the time when I open a new PDF. The message also appears when I scroll in an open document, and this slows down Acrobat a lot. And it makes me think of switching to another PDF-viewer..

I've attached a picture with two of the messages that I usually get when opening/scrolling in documents.

As you understand, I find this really annoying, and specially when I know it is possible to disable this feature. On the computer labs at the university, they got the same software (and the same setup), but when I open the same document on those computers, I never experience this "problem". So my conclusion is that it is possible to disable this feature, and just open new documents and scroll how much as I want without having to wait for Adobe to rotate pages, deskew images, etc..

My other question regards fonts. I sometimes write some reports in LaTeX with the standard font (Computer Modern Roman, CRM). But when I try to open the PDF I have compiled, the font Acrobat/Reader displays is not CRM, but something totally different. If I first open another document that uses the same font (i.e. a PDF document that is included in a LaTeX package), and then open my own document afterwards, then Acrobat/Reader displays the correct font. Does anyone why this happens, and if it is something I can do to avoid this, such that Acrobat/Reader displays the correct font? If I open my own document i.e. Foxit Reader, the correct font is displayed right away (CRM), so it's obviously something in Acrobat/Reader that's causing this.

Thanks in advance!

Report · May 25, 2009

That is a weird problem, does it happen on all your PDFs? One guess is that it's the PDFs themselves causing the problem, not the Acrobat installation.

Report · May 25, 2009

It happens on most documents I try to view, yes. Even in documents with no images at all, it tells me that it's deskewing images, etc. I really have no clue at all, and as mentioned, the most annoying part is that I never experience this on the computer labs at the university with the exact same documents.

Report · May 26, 2009

You get this messages when you perform OCR Text Recognition on a document. I don't know why this happens when you view documents. Did you try a repair of the Acrobat installation?

Report · May 27, 2009

I've tried to re-install Adobe, but it keeps coming back on most documents I try to view.

Report · May 27, 2009

Can you check the following on the machine where you face this problem:

#1 Is there any screen reader application like Windows Narrator or any 3rd party tool running when you open the PDF document?

#2 Is Read Out Loud feature enabled inside Acrobat/Reader, you can check this from View > Read Out Loud menu item.

Report · May 27, 2009

There is no screen reader application running (I hadn't even heard of Nrrator before you mentioned it now ), and the Read Out Loud feature is not enabled.

I think I'll just give up Acrobat for now, and switch over to Foxit for reading documents, because this delay is really annoying, and it kinda ruins a lot of the "experience" (if I can call it that).

Thanks to everyone for trying though to help me, it's really appreciated (and if anyone should have a solution that works, I'll still be glad to get it).

Regards,

v1king

Report · Jun 11, 2009

Just wanted you to know your not the only one with this annoying problem. I support apporiximately 15 users of Adobe Acrobat and we just upgraded to version 9 with the rollout of our new laptops. I have a handful of users experencing the lengthy delay casued by rotating and deskewing. This process takes place on opening a PDF, creating a PDF, deleting pages from a PDF, and saving a PDF.

On the majority of the machines this does not occur. The only apparent difference in the install is that those users experincing the "problem" got full Adobe suites vs. the stand alone Acrobat product.

I'm desparately searching for an answer to help them resolve this annoyance and will update if I find anything.

Report · Nov 25, 2009

I've been experiencing the same problem only on some systems.

Here's something interesting using a pdf that can be downloaded and gives me this problem:
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/11164/BlackBerry_Bold_9700_Smartphone-Us...

It wworks well in Acrobat 8, not 9. Works well on one system, not the other.

BUT, most interestingly, if I open the above link under Acrobat 9.2.0 and view the file in the Internet Explorer plug-in, I can change pages instantly. Saving the file to disk and opening in stand-alone Acrobat reproduces the problem.

We're on to something.

Can anyone reproduce this?

Report · Nov 26, 2009

Something interesting to try.

I opened the file linked above (one of those causing problems), "printed" it to another pdf and it is now OK although the bookmarks are gone.

On another forum, some have suggested that the file may be the issue but I thinnk it's combination of factors.

See: http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?pid=58405

Any more ideas?

Report · Jun 15, 2009

@astephenssrc

I very recently (2wks ago) got a new hp notebook. With vista business. And I bought the Adobe 9 product.

All updates installed. For me it is very important to be able to quickly open pdf files.

Adobe 9 is a disaster. I have also this terrible delay problem. This is absolutely unacceptable.

My students told me I should use Foxit.

I did. Beautiful and extremely quick. It is goodbye Acrobat for me.

Report · Apr 15, 2010

You need to turn off the Reading Document to avoid this annoying thing. To do that:

go to Edit->Preferences, then in the Categories click on "Reading", then check the "Confirm before tagging documents". Then when you start the Acrobat next time (open a documents), you will be asked about reading, you press "Cancel", and it will not try to do that stupid stuff again.

Be careful, if you check Always use the setting..., then it overwrites the previous ckeck, and starts the annoying stuff again, but you can go through the process to stop it as I said, again.

Above, check confirm before tagging documents

Above, always click "Cancel"

Report · Jan 30, 2020

Thank you, Moslemzadeh! I have been bothered with this for a couple of years. It is finally over. You have restored my faith in Adobe Acrobat.

Report · Oct 12, 2020

While this works, Thanks!! does this mean every time i open a PDF Document i need to hit cancel? any way to get rid of annoying pop-up?

Report · Nov 04, 2010

I have the same problem when reading some pdf files.

After some google search i find a way to solve this problem. (i'm using win7)

press win+U

JUST uncheck "always read this section aloud" and "always scan this section" at the top.

Report · May 01, 2023

I think that unselecting Enable assistive technology support under Other Accessibility Options on the Accessibility category in Preferences... (Ctrl+K) on the Edit menu does the trick.

Report · Aug 07, 2023

Hi

v1king-2cwwU2

I don't know will you be able to see this message or not and also to those suffering from this issue. I just figured it out. It happened because the pdf file is in 1200 dpi. This issue started in Adobe 10 due to this facing issues. I think if reduced the dpi somehow might resolve this issue. Anyways please shout out to me if my suggestion here helped you that is whoever.