Okay. I take account of it. Ron Johnson wrote: > 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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