Not everybody cares about browser plugin compatibility! Such files are becoming increasingly common in the construction industry.Īdobe - please get your act together and offer some solution.
This file was produced by an architectural engineering firm and my customer is just a paving contractor.
This problem with 32-bit only viewers avaiulable under Windows is forcing my customer to switch from Windows to Macintosh because there is apparently no way to handle files like these under Windows. It keeps up with the repeating keyboard easily. The old Macintosh can speed though the pages of this document backwards and forwards with the repeating PgDn and PgUp keys, and having fully rendered the entire document in memory at once, the screen fills faster than I can even perceive. So on a 12 year old Macintosh, I can do things impossible on a high end modern Windows box. It has zero difficulty with it using Apple's Preview, which being a 64-bit app comfortably allocates nearly 4 GB of RAM while this document is open. However my vintage 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 dual 2.8 GHz with 20 GB RAM eats this document for lunch. I've tried many readers under Windows 10, and none could handle this file. Even my high end Windows 10 Pro 64 bit PC with 24GB RAM 4.7 GHz 8-core FX-9590 with two Radeon HD 7990's dies painfully trying to simply view pages 9 or later of this document. We will continue to watch this closely.I have before me a 52 page, 64 MB PDF file which cannot be handled by any PDF reader on any Windows PC since all the readers are 32-bit. We've found that many customers are starting to look for PDF alternatives to use in their environment. The attached article explains how to opt-out of this, but our concern is in the future, this may be a requirement and not an option. In addition to the change, Adobe now requires users who install Adobe Reader 64-bit to create an individual account and login each time they use the software.
More information on this can be found in Adobe's Adobe - 64-bit Unified App Installer article. This also affects PDQ Inventory collections as well. The 64-bit version of Adobe Reader that Adobe provides actually installs Adobe Acrobat (according to the registry and appwiz.cpl) and not Adobe Reader, which makes tracking "Free" vs "Paid" installations of Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader (64-bit) incredibly difficult. Our packaging team has been evaluating a 64-bit Adobe Reader package, though there are issues that may prevent this from being possible.
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