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. > > 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. > Okay. I'll try it too. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Don't fall before you're pushed.
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