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We have been using imported PDF images in FrameMaker for many years now with great success. However, something happened a few weeks ago that now causes several of our machines to take an extremely long time to display PDF images. For example, a 200KB imported PDF image that previously took less than 1 second to render now takes 14 seconds. It is now almost impossible to work with many of our documents, which contains 100+ images.

This has happened on several of our PCs running FrameMaker 8 (via the TechComm suite). These machines have the following software configuration.

FrameMaker 8.0p277
Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3
Windows XP Professional SP3

We have also disabled all plugins, but there is no difference - the problem still persists.

However, there is one machine in our office that is not affected. It has the following configuration.

FrameMaker 8.0p277
Adobe Acrobat 7.1.0
Windows XP Professional SP3

Is it possible that Acrobat is affecting the PDF import? Or is it recent changes to XP? Or something that has been updated in the background?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Steven Teasdale
GE Multilin