That it's a very simple explanation... :-) "All the the mysteries have an explanation, the explanation can be a mystery" Lívio ----- Original Message ----- On Thursday 31 August 2006 00:56, PerfectReign wrote:
Forgot to feed the hampster running your hard drive spindle?
What is your processor/memory? I find Acrobat takes about a minute on my machine (P-IV/1.8 Centrino w/ 1GB RAM) which twice as long as Firefox, or OOo.
It may simply be that the libraries needed aren't loaded and are taking time.
Eh? When starting it from KDE it takes 6 seconds for an initial run (just timed it) and 2-3 seconds for subsequent runs on my 2.5 year-old 1.4GHz PC with 700MB RAM and a vanilla IDE hard drive. Granted, if i load a big PDF it takes longer, but not a full minute. Starting OOo and loading a 121-page ODT takes about 15 seconds for me. The PDF of that same file takes about ... 8 seconds to load with acroread. Sounds like both your's and the OP's hamsters need feeding ;).