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Adobe Acrobat & Reader Tips

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Contents

• How to Get Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.x to Load Faster
• What do the Acrobat Reader plugins do?
• Fix for "This document contains JavaScripts" message
• Disable JavaScript
• Computer Tips Index

How to Get Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.x to Load Faster

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\
2. Rename the plug_ins directory to Optional
3. Create a new directory called plug_ins
4. Copy the following files from Optional to plug_ins: EWH32.api and search.api

What do the Acrobat Reader plugins do?

1. Start Adobe Reader
2. Go to: Help > About Adobe Plug-Ins and Help > About Third-Party Plug-Ins

This tip works for both Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Reader

Fix for "This document contains JavaScripts" message

If you've disabled JavaScript in Adobe Acrobat 7.x or Reader 7.x, you'll probably get an annoying message every time you exit the program, stating that, "This document contains JavaScripts," although the document did not contain any JavaScript code.

Here are the steps to disable that message in Windows XP, short of enabling JavaScript.

1. Find the location of Acrobat's "JavaScripts" directory.
   On Windows XP, this is C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\JavaScripts\.
   * Where <username> is the account that you've logged into Windows with.
   ** Where C: is the hard disc drive or partition that Windows XP is installed on.
   
2. Rename the JavaScripts directory to JavaScripts.old.
   
3. Create an empty text file named JavaScripts, using Notepad, in the same directory that the JavaScripts directory was in.
   On Windows XP, this is C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\.

Note: It appears that Adobe has corrected the above issue with the v7.0.5 update.

Disable JavaScript in Adobe Acrobat 7.x and Reader 7.x

1. Start Acrobat/Reader
2. Go to: Edit > Preferences...
3. Under Categories: choose JavaScript
4. Uncheck "Enable Acrobat JavaScript"
5. Click on the Ok button