Adobe Acrobat Reader Settings for Best Performance on an RDP Server

A number of our clients have recently been complaining about how slow PDF documents have been in their RDP sessions when scrolling or paging through the document.

I recently wrote an article on Adobes poor performance within an RDP environment with the default Enhance Security setting applied , which you can read here, but this doesn't rectify the poor scrolling performance.

So how do you improve scrolling performance? Simply apply the following settings by clicking the Edit menu > Preferences. Then apply the settings as outlined in the following screen shots:

And to reiterate, you should also have the Enhanced Security > Protected Mode turned off as well as outlined below:

This should rectify your issue.

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