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[208 kB] - ADOBE READER SPEED-UP V1.32 =========================== Author : Joseph Cox Website : http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk Forum : http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/forum Released: 8th January, 2005. CONTENTS -------- Contents - List of sections in this help file. Preface - A few introductory notes Supports - List of supported Adobe and Acrobat Readers Purpose - What this software is for Translation - Translating ARSU into your language Settings Profiles - Maintain multiple installations of ARSU Silent Deployment - Run ARSU quickly and silently Upgrading Reader - Upgrading to new versions of Adobe/Acrobat Reader Upgrading ARSU - Upgrading to new versions of ARSU Removing ARSU - How to "uninstall" Adobe Reader Speed-Up Trouble-Shooting - Fixing common problems History - Release history of ARSU PREFACE ------- Thanks to everyone that has donated so far; you don't truly know how much it helps - thanks again! Notice: Since v1.20, ARSU stores unused plugins in the Optional folder of Acrobat/Reader. This means that when a PDF is viewed and Acrobat/Reader requires a plugin for full functionality, it'll be loaded automatically for that particular PDF only. SUPPORTS -------- This software supports the speed-up of the following: (Note: CE, free, and full versions are supported) Adobe Acrobat 3.0 Adobe Acrobat 4.0 Adobe Acrobat 4.0.5 Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Adobe Acrobat 5.1 Adobe Acrobat 5.5 Adobe Acrobat/Reader 6.0 Adobe Acrobat/Reader 6.0.1 Adobe Acrobat/Reader 6.0.2 Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7.0.0 In other words, any version of the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader software from 3.0 and upwards should be supported. PURPOSE ------- Adobe Reader Speed-Up (ARSU) was created in an effort to automate the process of speeding up Adobe Reader's launch time by disabling the majority of plugins that are, quite franky, completely useless for most users. If the program gives you an error when you try to run it, then you require the VB Runtimes pack. Download it here: http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/?id=vbruntimes When the program is up and running, select your Adobe Reader directory if you are prompted to via the Change Settings link on the first step, then click Next and select the type of speed up you require ("SpeedUp - Fast" is recommended), and finally click on the Start button. If you should require to revert back to the original slow loading state, then run the program again and select Restore Original Configuration and click on Start. For information on what the plugins do, click on the Plugin Help button in the step with the list of plugins. Then click on a plugin to display its respective information. That's all there is to it. TRANSLATION ----------- Almost all of the text strings in ARSU can be changed via the use of an external language file. If you would like to translate ARSU into your language, load the Template.txt file from the Translations directory and edit the text on the right side of the equals ("=") sign. Once done, save the file under the name of your language with ".txt" (minus quotes) appended onto the filename. Run ARSU and click on Settings, then change the language to your newly created language and ARSU should automatically change its interface texts. You can send me your language file for inclusion into the next version of the software. Please make sure there are no errors in your strings. It is strongly recommended that you check the following forum thread if you are planning on doing a translation: http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=777 SETTINGS PROFILES ----------------- ARSU saves its settings using the current path of the program executable. This means that you can have an ARSU executable in C:\, and another one in C:\MyDir, and both of them would maintain completely independent settings. This is useful if you have more than one Adobe Reader/Acrobat installation and would like to quickly and easily modify them without having to continually re-select the install path using the Settings window. SILENT DEPLOYMENT ----------------- ARSU can be deployed silently. To enable this mode, load the Deployment.ini file into a text editor and set the Enable flag to 1. This should be enough for most configurations. For more options, see the inline comments within the Deployment.ini file itself. UPGRADING READER ---------------- It is recommended that you do a Restore Configuration before applying an update from Adobe for Acrobat/Reader. UPGRADING ARSU -------------- To upgrade to a new version of Adobe Reader Speed-Up, simply delete the directory containing the previous version of ARSU, and extract/copy the new version to its location. Alternatively, you can extract the new version directly over the old version. REMOVING ARSU ------------- To remove Adobe Reader Speed-Up from your system, simply quit the application and delete its directory. TROUBLE-SHOOTING ---------------- If you get an error when you start ARSU (about a file missing or whatever), then you will need to download the VB Runtimes pack: http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/?id=vbruntimes If Adobe Acrobat/Reader gives you any errors after you run ARSU, then do a Restore Configuration, activate Plugin Help and make sure that you aren't disabling any plugins that depend on other plugins to work. This is not a bug of ARSU, but how Adobe Reader/Acrobat was designed to work. Finally, PluginHelp.txt contains information on the Adobe plugins, and is used by Adobe Reader Speed-Up. You should not view this file yourself as it is in a user-unfriendly format. Click on the Plugin Help button within ARSU to view it in a more presentable format. Joseph Cox (AKA BootBlock) HISTORY ------- v1.32 - 8th January, 2005. - Added: Language Information button to the Select Language window. - Added: Deutsch, Dutch, Espanol, Finnish, Francais, Francais - Canadian, Italiano, and Svenska language files. - Added: Plugin Help for Adobe Reader 7 Professional plugins. - Added: Bare and Auto Install Fix profiles. - Fixed: Using a non-English language file broke Restore Configuration. - Other: Tweaks and additions to the language support. v1.31 - 6th December, 2004. - Added: Support for plugins in directories. - Added: Language translation support (see Settings window). - Added: Detection of Acrobat/Reader via the registry. - Added: Context menu to the plugins list (click RMB on the list). - Other: Changed the detection code to use the Windows API. v1.30 - 10th October, 2004. - Other: ARSU now auto-detects Adobe Reader 7.0 Beta. - Other: Optional folder isn't deleted upon Restore Configuration. Thanks to Lomax for recommending. v1.29 - 23rd September, 2004. - Added: It's now possible to change the System and Common directories that ARSU uses for some of its tweaks. - Added: Link to Reader in the Settings window. - Added: Preliminary support for Adobe Reader 7.0 Beta (sigh..). - Other: Minor changes here and there. - Other: Updates to the manual. v1.28 - 5th August, 2004. - Fixed: Silent Deployment broke in v1.27. Now fixed. - Other: Backup Location must now reside on the same drive as the Acrobat application. v1.27 - 29th July, 2004. - Fixed: Another attempt to fix Speed-Up failures. Seems to have worked, at least partially anyway. v1.26 - 29th July, 2004. - Fixed: Attempted to fix speed-Up failures. v1.25 - 29th July, 2004. - Added: New tweaks to the Tweaks section. - Fixed: Speed-Up failures some users were experiencing. - Other: Redesigned Tweaks section. - Other: Various minor changes and improvements. v1.21 - 28th April, 2004. - Added: URL to download v1.16 in ReadMe.txt. - Fixed: A Speed-Up wouldn't work after doing a Restore using a previous version of ARSU. v1.20 - 27th April, 2004. - Notice: If you have used a previous version of ARSU, then perform a Restore before using this version otherwise you will run in to problems. This is essential. - Added: Fix Reader Startup Problems to Tweaks. - Other: ARSU now backs up plugins using the Optional folder. This means that Reader loads plugins on demand and consequently you'll never need to do a Restore Configuration ever again. - Other: Works again in Win98 and doesn't require any dependencies to be installed under WinXP or higher. v1.16 - 28th March, 2004. - Added: Reset Speed-Up status to Tweaks section. v1.15 - 25th January, 2004; Birthday Release! - Added: Support for all CE versions of Acrobat/Reader. - Added: Extended error checking and information messages. - Added: WorldReady.api to the profiles (for CE versions). - Added: About window. Includes donation information. - Fixed: Potentially serious bug preventing ARSU from working properly with non-English versions of Acrobat/Reader. - Other: Now fully supports Windows XP theming. v1.14 - 19th January, 2004. - Added: Tweaks section. - Added: Support for Adobe Acrobat 5.0 CE. - Added: Added 27 new plugin descriptions. Thanks to Sebastián Naccas. v1.13 - 16th January, 2004. - Added: More coach messages on potential error situations. - Added: Plugin Info.pdf courtesy of Nat Taylor. - Fixed: Plugin dependency information wasn't being loaded. Thanks to Baja Joe for reporting. - Fixed: Occasional text flickering in Windows XP. - Other: Very minor changes. v1.12 - 1st January, 2004. - Added support for Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 and 5.5. - Added experimental support for Adobe Acrobat 3. - Added silent deployment support. See ReadMe.txt. - Added more plugin descriptions to Plugin Help. (thanks to Philco) - Plugin Help can be edited by editing PluginHelp.txt. - Improved checking for Acrobat/Reader installations. - Improved error checking and handling. - Fixed bug that could result in the Speed Up operation failing. v1.11 - 27th December, 2003. - ARSU can now maintain more than one settings profile. See Settings Profiles in ReadMe.txt for more information. - If there are multiple installations of Adobe Reader, then the latest installed version will be used as default. - Added more plugin descriptions to Plugin Help. - Minor changes. v1.10 - 24th December, 2003. - Greatly improved checking for existing Acrobat/Reader installations. - Two Speed-Ups now cannot be performed in a row. You need to do a Restore before you can Speed-Up again. Same applies to doing two Restores in a row. - Plugin details now work on non-English versions of Reader. - Fixed tooltips. v1.09 - 21st December, 2003. - Redesigned interface. - Now supports the non-free version of Reader 6. - Backup location can now be changed. - Changed Fast/Turbo plugin selection profiles, as recommended by Jonathan Topping. v1.00 - 16th September, 2003. - Initial release. | ||
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