NVIDIA GPUs Accelerate Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8

NVIDIA GPUs Accelerate Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8

NVIDIA Corporation announced that the Adobe® Acrobat® 8 product family and Adobe Reader® 8 now offer a new page display rendering mode, which uses the graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate the drawing and display of pages in PDF format.

Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8 are the latest popular software applications that harness the power of GPUs to improve Performance and Image Quality

“NVIDIA® GeForce® and NVIDIA Quadro® GPUs let users do more with PDF files, and faster,” said Pam Deziel, director, platform product marketing, Adobe Systems Incorporated. “Panning, scrolling, zooming…Virtually every major function in Adobe Reader 8 that takes advantage of the GPU will receive a tangible boost in performance. Things people may have avoided in the past, such as deeply detailed zoomable maps, are now easily displayed.”