working with pdf's

[Anonymous]

I have a imported pdf that I am using to working over. every time I zoom in or out or pan the thing takes like 10 seconds to load which makes working on it real slow. It is 2.8MB

Anyone know how to make this faster?

[Steve Jepson]

besides more RAM ?

If you have the Adobe Acrobat Pro you can probably reduce the file size.

I have lots of large .pdf's in my drawings and it does not seem to slow me down.

ISend it to me, I will reduce the file size and send it back if you think that would help.

[Anonymous]

I had a similar problem ... PDF color fills were the problem in my case ... there might be multiple colors overlapping on a pdf to create a pattern fill which can cause slowdowns ... avoid such pdf uses
PDF uses vectors and it takes time to calculate all the fills specially if they overlay and you have multiple of them.
Hope this helps

[Jere]

I used to have really bad problems with that if my PDF's had any of the percentage fills (25%, 50%, 75%)

[Dennis Lee]

Open in GIMP, save as JPG. Super fast panning, zooming, as a trace reference.

[Eduardo Rolon]

or open in Illustrator and save as dwg if the pdf was created from Autocad or any other vector application.