Comments on: Remove "Please wait while the document is being prepared for reading" Message in Adobe Reader 8

By: Be-rizzle

Be-rizzle — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:34:29 +0000

This trick works for Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 as well!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:03:49 +0000

You’re the man. Thanks for the tip, it worked great.

By: T-Dog

T-Dog — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:21:46 +0000

Different Strokes.

I’m all for being civilized, but when civility fails, give me a sledge hammer.

Changing the Reader Option to “Only read the currently visible pages” actually made the problem worse.

Removing “Accessibility.api” worked like a charm.

By: nanda

nanda — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:56:35 +0000

Try this.

Go to accessibility > change reading options > change the reading order to “use reading order to raw print stream “

By: neil

neil — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:37:16 +0000

Thanks for that, I now get a ‘invalid plugin detected’ followed by a GPF and I now have to download adobe again.

Again, well done.

By: gg

gg — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:33:42 +0000

Thanks. This saved me from alot of frustration. It works for Adobe Standard as well…

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:38:54 +0000

Wahoo! Cheers!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:11:50 +0000

The solution you give is not necessary, and you should take it down. Adobe already has the option to turn s this off under preferneces, it just isn’t labelled very clearly.

If you want to fix it without breaking Reader, do it the correct way:

1. Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Reading
2. Under “Screen Reader Options”, select “Only read the currently visible pages”

By: Liang

Liang — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:29:50 +0000

Hi,

Unfortunately, after trying this trick and opening a pdf, it comes up with the message, “invalid plug-in detected. Adobe Reader will quit”.

After pressing OK, it says “The instruction at “0×2d830cbc” referenced memory at “0×00000008″. The memory could not be “read”. Click on OK to terminate the program.”

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:08:27 +0000

Many people do not understand what Accessibility is. It’s not some random piece of bloatware that some bored software engineer came up with to torment you. One man’s bloat is another man’s feature.

Blind people need it to be able to “hear” documents. Adobe would run into significant trouble with the Americans with Disabilities Act if it didn’t incorporate the feature. The problem is that the feature turns on automatically if you have screen reading turned on (it won’t happen if you install on a clean install of Windows).

Software systems are very complex, and frequently people turn on things that they don’t want.