Illustrator CS4 working slower than CS2

Hi all,
I am working with a PDF file in Illustrator CS4, when I try to scroll with my hand tool it takes forever for the image to refresh and update to the new location.  But when I work on the same PDF file in Illustrator CS2, scrolling with the hand tool is fine and the image updates to where I move it to really fast.  The I checked the Units & Display Performance in both versions and they appear to be the same.  Is there any other thing that I could try to make the PDF update faster in CS4?  Thanks in advance.
pwitman

Hello Pwitman,
You are experiencing a CS4 Critical Bug. This CS4 version came with very serious and critical bugs (like the Memory Bug, Crop Marks, Icon Preview. Text spacing, etc, etc, etc.) that Adobe wont care to fix.
May that is why you have not receive a direct answer. The hole program can crash for one font that the CS4 version considers as a corrupt font (even when other programs or older versions can use the same font).
That is why CS2 is more reliable than the "new" version CS4. Adobe is going from bad to worse. I cannot wait to see CS5's bugs that Adobe wont fix.
I made the mistake of buying CS3; and now I do things in CS2 that CS3 or CS4 cannot do. Yep the old version can do things better than CS3 and CS4.
So where is the CS4 update? Well, Adobe will sell you CS5 as an update.

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