Acrobat & Intel Macs

[jason]

I have a new iMac, with the intel chip running 10.4.10.

I have Acrobat 7, but it does not function smoothly running in rosetta on the iMac.

I am thinking about getting Acrobat 8, which would run natively on my Intel Mac. However, with the horror stories over it, I just don't know what to do.

Do I just keep Acrobat 7 or bit the bullet and upgrade to Acrobat 8?????????

[jimking]

Check and see if there's an update for Acrobat 7. There should be one at least to 7.09.

[Joe]

I have a new iMac, with the intel chip running 10.4.10.

I have Acrobat 7, but it does not function smoothly running in rosetta on the iMac.

I am thinking about getting Acrobat 8, which would run natively on my Intel Mac. However, with the horror stories over it, I just don't know what to do.

Do I just keep Acrobat 7 or bit the bullet and upgrade to Acrobat 8?????????

We've got two intel macs running acrobat 8 and both users requested to have 7 installed on their machines and so that is what they are using and have not reported any problems with it. OS X.4.11

[Zimmy3]

Runnung 7 & 8 on my Intel OS10.4.11.
No problems here to report.

[David]

running 7 and 8 here as well, no problems.

only I don't see a option to run 7 under Rosetta.

OS 10.4.11

[ninjaPB_43]

Im running 6, 7, and 8 on my iMac with OSX 10.4.11, I am using 7 - 98% of the time with Pitstop and havent had any problems...     yet..

[Joe]

running 7 and 8 here as well, no problems.

only I don't see a option to run 7 under Rosetta.

OS 10.4.11

Acrobat 7 is not an Intel native application. The only way it can run is through Rosetta.

[doubting_thomas]

10.4.10 + Accrobat 8 and no problems except for the Cmmd + Spacebar zoom issue (works
but sluggishly).

[jason]

For me in my situation, Acrobat 7 is slow. Jobs with lots of photos and or transparencies takes forever to draw up on the screen. I know that I can uncheck overprint preview, but it still shouldn't take this long with overprint preview on. It drives me nuts when I try to check a job and I can run down to Subway for lunch while Acrobat switches to the next page and redraws.

I also see the "Acrobat 8 is Pathetic" thread and it just makes me wonder. I would like to believe that Acrobat 7 is slow because of Rosetta and if I had Acrobat 8 is would work much more efficiently.

[Zimmy3]

Screen previews are terrible in Acrobat period.

[Joe]

I don't see any difference in the screen redraws between Acrobat 7 and Acrobat 8.

[ninjaPB_43]

there's a button to the right of the wireframe button in Acro 7 called "speedup image display"  but I dont know how well it truly works..

its in the "Enfocus Pitstop View Buttons" toolbar, if you have pitstop..   

[Zimmy3]

I don't see any difference in the screen redraws between Acrobat 7 and Acrobat 8.

I know,they're both terrible.

[jason]

To sum things up -

I thought the redraw/image display in Acrobat 7 was shitty because it was on a Intel iMac, however I have learned that it's just shitty no matter what, and there is no need to upgrade to 8 'cause it's shitty too.

I need a beer, Sam Adams anyone ?!?!?!?!

[Sparky]

jason, first of all welcome to the forum.

Second, I use CS3 with Acro-8 on my new intel iMac in a home office scenerio. I don't really push a lot of work through it but so far everything has worked just fine. I produce a lot of "press quality (modified)" PDFs for outside vendors and haven't heard any complaints yet about RIP non-compatible files, so until then, I can only assume they're working OK.

edit: The last file I produced was a 108.5 Mg size PDF I sent via .ftp to a printer. It was a 16 page 4/2 and when opened on the Mac took less than a few seconds to open. The cover alone (see attachment) was 49+ megs.

I love my new iMac