Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

[Amit Uttamchandani <auttamchandani@canoga.com>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:44:52 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

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> On 07/14/08 21:20, Chris Burkhardt wrote:
> > Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> >> In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his
> >> acrobat reader performs a lot faster.
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> > Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise?
> > 
> > (sorry for not answering your actual question)
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> And you know that Windows Acroread is (should be) highly tuned.
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Yes, you are right it is probably tuned. So far xpdf is great, I mean
the pdfs launch a lot faster and it generally is better in performance
except for the large file described

According to pdfinfo:

Page size:      2588.16 x 1578.84 pts
File size:      3619630 bytes

Thanks,
Amit