Tool Tips

[Lucie_South@adobeforums.com]

Can someone please tell me where in Preferences do I turn on Tool Tips. I have searched and searched. I have done a search in the help manual. I have gone through every Preference. I cannot find it. I have Acrobat 7.0 Professional installed at home on a PC. Tool Tips is obviously on. When I hover my mouse around the tools, it shows me what that tool is, including the gray bar to show what Toolbar I'm looking at. I have Acrobat 7.0 Professional installed at work on a Mac. Tool Tips is not on. I hover my mouse around all the tools and Toolbars and nothing. Please help. This is driving me nuts.

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

I cannot find info on how to turn it on or off. But on my Mac, I have
to leave the mouse over the object for several seconds before the tool
tips show. Are you sure you are waiting long enough?

Mike

[Lucie_South@adobeforums.com]

Thank you Mike.

You are absolutely right. I'm just not a very patient person. Believe me.

When I read your post today, I thought, "Yea Right!" But I gave you the benefit of the doubt and checked it out. I had the full intention of hovering my mouse on a tool for a maximum of 1 minute, thereby coming back on here and letting you know that you were full of it. : )

Sorry : )

Anyway, counting up to 12 and there's the tool tip. Consider that an abomination for this program. No one should have wait up to 12 seconds for anything computer-related. Especially not a patient person like me. Ha! And believe it or not, out of 8 computers in our department, my system is the fastest. Which to some might mean nothing except that it really is a good system. We run high-end graphic-intensive programs, including Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, QuickTrac, QuicKeys and other programs.

Hopefully in future, they'll improve this. In the meantime, I'll be memorizing.

Thank you for your quick response.

Lucie

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No one should have wait up to 12 seconds





Hopefully in future, they'll improve this.




Not sure what they can improve. It could (not saying that it definately is) be system specific or maybe it has something to do with a third party application you have installed?

On my dual 2.3 G5, it only takes about 3 seconds. About the same on my home system (iMac G4 800 flatscreen).

[pjonesCET@adobeforums.com]

Acrobat is rather memory intensive and you need to throw all the RAM you can to it. So if your machine is slower (and I am not saying it is).

I have 1.5 Gb on one machine ans 2 Gb on a PowerBook 17" and it take almost 20-30 seconds for the spinning pizza wheel to stop spining before using Acrobat. No other Program I have, even shows The Pizza wheel.

Have you did any recent maintainence such as with Disk Utility or DisKWarrior. Maybe you need a good program to defrag your hard Drive.