Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for
> 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...

4000 pages? Wow, I think I never opened such a document :-)

If you provide a sample link, we could run some text search performance 
tests over the file.

Also, I don't have installed Acrobat on my linux boxes, but in windows, 
there are two search facilities, "find" and "advanced search". The latter 
is quicker.

Greetings,

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Camaleón