Disabling Acrobat

I'll never criticize Adobe for inventing Acrobat and the PDF format, but let's face it... each new iteration of the reader makes opening documents slower and slower. Even a moderate sized document can take an hour to open on my G5 iMac when it's launched from within Safari, if it opens at all.
Preview, on the other hand, opens just about any sized PDF almost instantly.
How do I force Safari to use Preview with all PDFs that I want to view?
In many cases I can use Control-Click>Save on the link, then open with Preview, but sometimes that option doesn't work. It's also an extra step.
Save me from Acrobat, pleeeeeeesse!
...Charles

Hello cp_whaley,
First of all, welcome to the Apple discussions.
* What kind of version of Acrobat are you using? If you use version 7 than there a lot of features in it you probable never will use. You can increase the Acrobat by doing the following.
You can optimize Adobe Reader 7 by removing unnecessary plug-ins. Here's how I did it. Note that this tip requires write access to /Applications):
Navigate to /Applications/Adobe Reader 7; control-click on the applicaiton and select Show Package Contents, then open the Contents folder in the new window that opens.
Create a folder named "Plug-ins (disabled)"
Open the regular "Plug-ins" folder, and then drag all plug-ins into the "Plug-ins (disabled)" folder except for the following:
WebLink.acroplugin
ImageViewer.acroplugin
EScript.acroplugin
Search.acroplugin
Escript is necessary for WebLink to work, but won't do anything with JavaScript disabled (assuming you've disabled it per the instructions in my other hint ).
If you don't care about following web hyperlinks in documents you read, you can move all plug-ins except Search into the disabled folder. Since I have also disabled automatic Reader updates, I don't need the updater plug-in, but you may want to keep it in otherwise. To re-enable a plug-in, drag it (and any other plug-in it depends on) back to the "Plug-ins" folder.
With plug-ins disabled, my Reader is faster and uses a smaller memory footprint -- 18.5MB versus 26MB of real memory, and 187MB versus 230MB of virtual memory.
[robg adds: You can also disable plugins through the Finder's Get Info window. Just click on the Reader application, hit Command-I, and then expand the Plug-Ins section. Disable those you don't wish to use. The above method has the advantage of being somewhat easier to work with, as the Plug-Ins section is tiny and requires a lot of scrolling about.]
To do this takes about 5 to 10 minutes of work ...
Let me know if so ...
Discussions is a ongoing process. Hope to see you around anytime you need us, or can offer help to others.
Dimaxum <]:~))

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