Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for > > Wow. How big is that? Well, there are many bigger works, such as encyclopedias! > >> other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for >> a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I >> do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document, >> it takes 500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so >> sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD... >> > > Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers? As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using free is cowardice), but the fact is that I have not found a reader whose range of compatibility with the PDF standard is as high as in acroread. Acroread is slow, boring, sometimes buggy, but I need to use it as long as I do not find a PDF reader which has such a big compatibility range. > Do you hear the disk spin up when you start the search? Not at all. I have a HDD load monitor, and I do not even see any trace of some HDD use. Such documents often contain no pictures (only schematics, as you might guess), and are thus light, so I do not expect acroread to use the HDD a lot when looking for a word. > In Edit->Preferences->Search there is a knob or two you can diddle with. Yes, I tried. But nothing better. > Lastly, acroread is free-as-in-beer. Adobe wants you to buy Acrobat > to get the Good Stuff. That's a fact. That's the less attractive counterpart of acroread. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Big thunder. Little rain.
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