GPU Acceleration Support in Acrobat and Adobe Reader (8.x)

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:36 pm

Now this is some news!

Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8 introduces a new feature called graphical processing unit (GPU) acceleration. This features enchances page display, zooming, and panning within PDF files. When Acrobat or Adobe Reader starts, it detects the properties of the video card and enables the Use 2D GPU Accerleration feature within Acrobat or Adobe Reader. The 2D GPU acceleration check box will only be visible if Acrobat or Adobe Reader detects a supported video card.

Supported Video Cards

The GPU detection technology within Acrobat or Adobe Reader 8.0 supports nVidia and ATI shader 3 video cards with 128 megabytes of VRAM. The following video cards have been tested with Acrobat and Adobe Reader.

Check here to see if your card is supported: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/333447.html

Post by **dicecca112** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:39 pm

uum why? I look at a ton of pdfs in school, my professor goes nuts for em, and they look fine. Useless feature IMO. But my video card is supported

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:41 pm

Just got Acrobat 8 yesterday. It's nice from what I've been able to see.

I'm just thankful to see it finally supporting 64bit Operating Systems.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:29 pm

Well I picked up Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and no window popped up for me... Did you get any Cypher?

I was using Adobe Acrobat 5 back from 2001 and oh my god is Adobe Acrobat 8 much faster.... night and day for me... just wish i could enable the graphics card part.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:44 pm

Apoptosis wrote:Well I picked up Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and no window popped up for me... Did you get any Cypher?

I was using Adobe Acrobat 5 back from 2001 and oh my god is Adobe Acrobat 8 much faster.... night and day for me... just wish i could enable the graphics card part.

Goto either tools / preferences or Edit / preferences
select "3D" on the submenu on the left and the option should be there ;)

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:18 pm

EDIT / Preferences / Page Display is where you need to go I believe...

There is a box for rendering that is off by default... says "Use 2D GPU Acceleration"

here is a screen shot of my system:

The reader part is free and can be downloaded here:

Windows - ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/wi ... _en_US.exe

Mac PowerPC - ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/ma ... US_ppc.dmg

Mac Intel - ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/ma ... S_i386.dmg

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:08 pm

Apoptosis wrote:Well I picked up Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and no window popped up for me... Did you get any Cypher?

I was using Adobe Acrobat 5 back from 2001 and oh my god is Adobe Acrobat 8 much faster.... night and day for me... just wish i could enable the graphics card part.

The only thing it asked me for when I was installing it, it wanted the AdobePDF.dll off the Windows Vista CD-ROM, and well I'm running XP x64. So I ended up going through the Data1.cab to get the AdobePDF.dll_64 and just renaming it.