Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF
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Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> 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.
You're right. Why not? I'll try it out. Thanks.
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