Acrobat XI on MacBook Pro Retina down severely on scrolling PDFs

Question

Hi all.
I've seen lots of threads around the net about slow scrolling on macbook and acrobat pro but having tried a few things I am compelled to ask myself for some help.
I have a Retina MacBook Pro 15" from Late 2012 and fully updated Mountain Lion (10.8.3), it has the solid state disk and I hit it with the cpu upgrade and ram upgrades on purchase.
For most applications it is gratifyingly fast - including, I should say much of the CS6 suite.
But when it comes to using PDFs in Acrobat XI it is really almost unusable.  The scrolling hesitation and interface lag for scrolling is horrendus.  It doesn't seem to matter too much if it is a big or small PDF in number of pages or size of images - ie pages of text that are rendered instead of text.
Sure, some of the PDFs I typically use are quite large and long. I am currently getting frustrated over one which is 690 pages but only 5 MB - another 300 pages and less than 2MB but they bog down something horrid.
And the most frustrating thing is that when I open them in Preview they scroll just as fast and cleanly as they do on my iPAD!!!
I have tried reinstalling, I have tried unchecking "run in 32bit" and I have looked at every internal setting I can find to no avail.
Can anyone suggest anything that might be causing it to be so sloooooow on this platform which should eat simple pdf viewing and annotating alive - (and I haven't even got the the point where I would be confident adding PitStop etc)
Best regards,
Will

Answer 1

@g.miles
Do this:
Right click on "Adobe Acrobat Pro.app", and select "Get info".
Check if "Open in low resolution" is ticked (it was on my machine, and greyed out).
Untick and open the app.
If it is grayed out, do the following:
Make a backup of "Adobe Acrobat Pro.app".
Right click on "Adobe Acrobat Pro.app" and select "Show Package Contents"
Open "info.plist"
Add "<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key> <string>True</string>" at the bottom of the file, just before "</dict></plist>"
Save
Open the modified app package. Now everything should be crisp.
Worked for me!
BUT it seems to lag down the application alot – especially zooming. So it could be you want to have it ticked to gain performance, but now you at least have the option (i.e it is not greyed out).
EDIT:
I agree, this release is not up to par of what we should expect from Adobe.