I have a geospatial PDF map & it opens very slowly in Acrobat 2017. (60 seconds or so) What are my best alternatives? The map is very powerful allowing me to search on road numbers, lat longs, mountain names, river names etc etc. It is used for search and rescue and I can't wait 60 seconds for it to render when first opened or another 60 seconds when zoomed or navigated through. Currently running on an 8 year-old Thinkpad, but I had someone run it on a brand-new, high-end Mac book and it sill took 15 seconds to render on each move or zoom. I have tried alternatives to Adobe Acrobat but they did not seem any better and in some cases worse. What hardware will make this faster: CPU? number of cores?, amount of RAM?, GPU? Where is the bottle neck and what would speed this up the most.
Following solutions/factors may help you.
1- Move the map file from desktop to any derive of computer
2- install updates of the Adobe acrobat reader/viewer
3- install the latest version of pdf editor
4- upgrade the processing system of your computer machine
5- refresh the cache files
6-run any suitable antivirus
7-convert the map into a. jpge formate it will appear as a photo image.
Thanks. Maybe my first post was not clear. The need is for a geospatial map in order to search on the map. If I convert it to a jpg I can no longer search on Lat / Long or on text names that name rivers, roads etc
Why not to improve the graphic card of machine.
You may share the pdf map file to some other computer and test the performance.
Keep the map open all the time on your machine(if using frequently)
Thanks, very much. We have investigated the effect of adding more RAM, changing to a machine with a dedicated and powerful GPU, getting a processor with 6 cores and so on, but so far, nobody can tell me definitively what will have the greatest impact on the performance. We have tested this on a brand new Macbook with 32 GB of RAM and it still takes a while to load and still takes time to render when the zoom is changed or if the map is moved on the screen. (When printed out the map is 6' x 6' or about 2m x 2m.)
Keeping the map open is one thing we have tried and that seems to improve things somewhat. The problem there seems to be that Windows will swap memory to disk to improve the performance of other programs. (At least that is what I think is happening.)
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