>>>Tested with
>>>XP PRO SP2
>>>VFP9 SP1
>>>Printer HP Deskjet3900. (2 cents for paper and ink)
>>>PDF file - 10 pages.
>>>Acrobat 7.0
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>>Thanks a lot for your tests. I have Adobe 6 at work and the first sample did not work for me. I'll re-test from home.
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>I have never installed any Acrobat reader above version 4, because it's overfeatured and, AFAIK, version 6 was loading all the plugins right at the start, needed or not, which may take time. Don't know how does version 7 stand, since I'm using Foxit reader (www.foxitsoftware.com), which is much lighter and loads a lot faster. I did have a couple of cases when a page based on a scanned drawing would print blank from it, but that's the odd one out. Everything else works perfectly and it does load really fast.

Acrobat reader 7 loads very fast, much much faster than earlier versions.