Adobe Reader and Acrobat users for Mac and Windows can get updates by utilizing the products update mechanism. (Update checks can be manually activated by choosing Help > Check for Updates.) Adobe Reader users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here. Adobe Reader users on Windows can find the appropriate update here. Acrobat Pro users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here. If Acrobat or its free sibling, Adobe Reader, remains active and continues to use memory after you shut it down, these phenomena can disrupt your computer and your work. Look to settings, defaults and in-application promotions for keys to problems that can make productivity applications turn unproductive.
Lately I started to do alot of research on paper works for University projects. Most of the downloaded papers are based on .pdf extension. As usual, I read these files via Safari or open it separetly via Adobe Reader itself.
While working on Papers, I noticed that my machine's memory spiked to 7 GB ++ almost reaches 8GB of memory usage. This is unusual. At one point, I ran Java programs and simulatenous opened up many pdf format files format on my safari browser, it went unresponsive and unable to use keyboard & trackpad. Had no choice, had to hard reboot.
Contacted Apple support and reported the issue on unresponsive to them. They provided following KB to troubleshoot further:
After that, I never encounter unresponsive issue but I have question Adobe reader program. This program uses huge amount of memory and I would like to know if there is anyway I can reduce the usage of memory of Adobe reader. Or is this normal?
Also, had an issue with pdf page scrolling, it is very slow.
Thank you,
Soma
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), 8 GB Ram i5 processor
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Announcement for those of you using Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion): Acrobat and Reader will be ending support for these operating systems after the next quarterly update, expected in May 2015. For the best and most secure experience of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, we recommend using the software on a supported operating system: OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks), or 10.10 (Yosemite).
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