Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

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

On 05/30/2010 10:13 AM, 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
> > 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.

Scratch that.  What OOo really does is convert it to ODG.

(I wrote what I wrote in anticipation of it completing, and clicked 
Send instead of Close.)

> 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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