Acrobat Keeps Freezing in Windows 10

Adobe Acrobat is a part of Adobe‘s family of applications collectively known as Adobe Creative Suite.

Acrobat essentially deals with the creation of PDFs, an electronic document format that captures documents in exactly the intended manner. The application tends to freeze while opening and navigating pages of a PDF document. We’ll look into this problem in detail.

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Disable Protected Mode Feature

Protected Mode feature in Adobe Acrobat is an added layer security, which acts as a primary defense strategy to restrict execution of any malicious codes included in PDF documents downloaded from untrusted sources. Temporarily turn off this feature and check whether the problem gets solved.

1. Click the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
2. Click the General tab.
3. Uncheck the box labelled Enable protected mode at startup.
4. Click OK.

Change Rendering Settings

Rendering settings can affect Adobe Acrobat’s performance. Disable the rendering feature as outlined below:

1. Click the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
2. Click the Page Display tab.
3. Uncheck the Rendering checkbox.
4. Click OK.

Disable Plug-Ins

There can be compatibility issues with a set of plug-ins. Figure out the issue by moving all plug-in files to a different directory.

1. Click the File Explorer icon on the Taskbar.
2. Open the following directory:
   • C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Plug_ins
3. Select all plug-ins listed in the Plug_ins subfolder.
4. Click the Home tab on the Ribbon interface.
5. Click the Move to icon.
6. Select Desktop when you’re prompted to choose the target destination.

Optimize PDF Document

Optimizing a PDF document involves removing unwanted text, optimizing the images and fonts for lower memory usage.

Using Microsoft Office Word

1. Open the source document you converted from Microsoft Office Word to PDF.
2. Click the File menu in the Microsoft Office Word window.
3. Select Save as.
4. Specify a name for the identical copy.
5. Select PDF as File Type.
6. Select the Minimum size option in the Save As dialog box.
7. Click the Options button.
8. Uncheck all boxes under the Include non-printing information.
9. Click OK.

Using a PDF Printer

A PDF Printer is a special application designed to write a document as a PDF Document without needing to use a special PDF creator application. A PDF Document can be used to eliminate unnecessary objects from a document.

Using Adobe Acrobat

1. Open the PDF Document you intend to optimize.
2. Click the File menu, select Save As.
3. Click Optimize PDF option.
4. This will open up a new dialog labelled PDF Optimizer.
5. Click the Audit button to analyze the PDF Document components that can be optimized, and the space consumed by unnecessary information as a percentage of the whole document size.
6. Click OK.
7. Select the components that need to be optimized. For example: Fonts and Images can be detected as the largest space consumer.
8. Select the Minimum option in each Quality option box.
9. Check everything that you see in the Discard Objects checkboxes.
10. Click OK.
11. Specify a new name for your optimized PDF Document.

Raza Ali Kazmi

Raza Ali Kazmi works as an editor and technology content writer at Sorcim Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. He loves to pen down articles on a wide array of technology related topics and has also been diligently testing software solutions on Windows & Mac platforms.