On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Hi, 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...
A different solution would be to open it in OOo Writer (I've tried it with v3.2 from Sid). I just tried it on a 125 page laptop Owner's Manual. Took about 10 minutes to convert. The results were passable and I could save it in ODT format.
For as huge a document as you have, probably the wise thing to do would be to add some sort *files* (see "man mkswap") and start the task on Friday night. If that blows up on you, pdftk can split files into smaller chunks.
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