Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/29/2010 02:34 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > 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.

Nothing says that you must only use one reader at a time. ;)

If poppler, for example, doesn't render *exactly* but searches 
/rapidly/, then you could search using poppler and "read" using 
Acroread.

Alternatively, install poppler-utils for it's pdftohtml.  Certainly 
it won't be perfect, but a browser might be faster than Acroread.

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