PPoint03 & Acrobat6 - painfully slow

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Jonny Block

I'm using fresh installs of PowerPoint 2003 (via OfficePro install) and
Adobe Acrobat 6 standard.

Creating PDFs behaves nicely in all office apps, save PowerPoint. Small
(2-3 slides) presentations print correctly, but a 7-slide, 1MB presentation
will take 20 minutes to complete (if it completes at all). And, a 9MB 32-
page presentation won't get anywhere near completion in under an hour.

I've installed OfficeXP Pro and Acrobat6 STD on a test station and the same
presentations print nicely to PDF in under 2 minutes each.

In the 03/STD scenario I've messed with the PDF conversion settings, even
to the point of dumbing them down to the minimums, but still no luck.

Thanks in advance.
JonnyB
 
I'm using fresh installs of PowerPoint 2003 (via OfficePro install) and
Adobe Acrobat 6 standard.

Creating PDFs behaves nicely in all office apps, save PowerPoint. Small
(2-3 slides) presentations print correctly, but a 7-slide, 1MB presentation
will take 20 minutes to complete (if it completes at all). And, a 9MB 32-
page presentation won't get anywhere near completion in under an hour.

I've installed OfficeXP Pro and Acrobat6 STD on a test station and the same
presentations print nicely to PDF in under 2 minutes each.

In the 03/STD scenario I've messed with the PDF conversion settings, even
to the point of dumbing them down to the minimums, but still no luck.
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Have you installed the 6.0.1 update for Acrobat? If not, give that a shot.
 
Yes, I should have mentioned that in my previous post. I've tested this
situation prior to and after applyng the 6.0.1 Acrobat patch.

Thanks.
JonnyB
 
Yes, I should have mentioned that in my previous post. I've tested this
situation prior to and after applyng the 6.0.1 Acrobat patch.
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OK, that leaves out another layer of confusion, then. Good. ;-)

Let's leave a bit more out: Are you making the PDF using PDFMaker (the add-in
that Acrobat installs into PowerPoint) or by choosing File, Print, picking the
Adobe PDF driver and printing as to a normal printer?

If you haven't already, print using the PDF driver and see what kind of results
you get there. Let us know ...

If there's no apparent difference, I might want to get a look at the 7slide,1mb
file; if it's proprietary, then maybe see if you can duplicate the problem in
another file that isn't proprietary.

Gentlemen, start your Acrobats.
 
Thanks for the reply, Steve.

I've tried both the add-in toolbar icon method and the File/Print method
- both with the same poor result.

There doesn't appear to be any confidential info in the presentation, but
I've asked the appropriates nonetheless. I'd prefer not to post it, so
your eMail address would be appreciated.

Thanks again for the help - I'd really like to see if you experience the
same issues as we are.

Drop me an eMail and I'll send the file your way once I get approval. My
contact info: jblock_at_hti_dot_htch_dot_com - I'm sure you'll figure it
out.

JonnyB
 
I've tried both the add-in toolbar icon method and the File/Print method
- both with the same poor result.
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Another level of confusion out the door. Good.
The reason for doing it both ways is that the add-in can be configured to add a
lot of special-purpose tagging to the PDF. Sometimes this is useful, but it
can add to the overhead (time, filesize).
There doesn't appear to be any confidential info in the presentation, but
I've asked the appropriates nonetheless. I'd prefer not to post it, so
your eMail address would be appreciated.
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That'd be best; email to steve a-in-a-circle steverindsberg dot com
Let's go for the seven-slide, 1-mb dude. No need for either of us to embark on
12-hour print runs with the other one any more than is necessary. ;-)
 
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