EXTREMELY SLOW Adobe Acrobat performance on Mac (re-reporting of common issue)
I'd like to re-report a general issue with Adobe Acrobat running on Mac. While viewing simple PDFs (<1MB), without annotations, Adobe Acrobat has 1 to two second delays when scrolling, painfully slow performance, the program is basically unusable.
I'm sure you are aware of this, because with a limited search I've seen multiple posts asking for help with this, most notably:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/acrobat-scrolling-is-incredibly-laggy-and-slow/m-p/10652846
The issues brought up in this post fully summarize my problem -- and BEAUTIFULLY surmises a likely cause of these problems. However, while a recurrent issue, I've seen very little interest from your company in addressing it...
I have Creative Cloud, with auto-updates active for Adobe Acrobat, and I have a 2020 Macbook Pro, 16gb RAM, good graphic card (although as beautifully pointed out in the blog post above, said graphics card is not even utilized by Adobe Acrobat)... I should not be having issues with this program. I am wholesomely disappointed in this program. I'll be uninstalling it until these issues are addressed.
Kyle
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Jacqui Rae
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I have Acrobat Pro installed on a recent model Mac. I am a website developer, so my system specs are consistent with the need to run resource hungry programs concurrently.
Even with every other program closed and on small un-annotated PDFs, Acrobat regularly lags, jolts, crashes, will not scroll and will not search (or conducts searches like an elderly pensioner looking for their glasses).
I pay a fortune for Creative Cloud on a professional level subscription and as the OP has said, this is a long running, known issue.
FIX IT.
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Guy Putman
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Same really disturbing problem!!!
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Gary Stewart
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This is a known bug. Not only for Mac, also on my very strong Win 10, 64-bit system, scrolling is lagging. This is Adobe's fault, not your system's, obviously.