Enthusiasts typically turn to hardware upgrades when it comes to improving the performance of their PC. In the case of PDF creation tools, you should consider looking at software first. We take Adobe Acrobat and compare it to several other viable options.
Test Setup And PDF Creation Settings
We used a Phenom II X6 1090T system with six processing cores to make sure that CPU performance doesn’t bottleneck the PDF creation process.
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System Hardware
Hardware
Details
Performance Benchmarks
Motherboard (Socket AM3)
Asus Crosshair IV Formula (Rev. 1.0), Chipset: AMD 890FX, BIOS: 0701 (04/02/2010)
CPU
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (45 nm, 3.2 GHz, 6 x 512 KB L2 and 6 MB L3 Cache, TDP 125 W, Rev. C3)
Version: 2007 SP2 PPT to PDFPowerPoint Document 1:115 pages, bullets, text, tables, some images 3.54 MBPowerPoint Document 2: 24 pages, bullets, charts, lots of Smart Art 5.77 MB
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Header Cell - Column 0
Default Quality
High Quality
Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard
Standard
High Quality Print
Foxit Phantom 2.0
Image Resolution 200 dpi
Image Resolution 300 dpi
FreePDF 4.02
Medium Quality
High Quality
PDFCreator 1.0.1
Normal
High
Office PDF
Minimum
Standard
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