Why not let someone else, such as the Google, do the heavy lifting for you: https://docs.google.com/viewer
~Richard. On 4 August 2011 07:39, Dave Caroline <dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com> wrote: > One method is to dispense with PDF and just view the scanned pages online > as > images or OCR'd text or point the user to a directory with the scans > for the document. > He then only needs an image viewer using a lot less of his machines memory. > > Large PDF's also cause problems in the viewing computer. I was > reviewing someones > 25mb PDF the other day and it peaked at 3.3 gig memory use, which on a > 2.5gig > memory box meant it went into swap and slowed to a crawl. > The viewer used there was evince. > > I scan to jpg and only produce a PDF if nagged > > http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/manuals/IS44_Tektronix_602_display_unit/ > > As I serve from home and the upload is on the slow side individual > pages helps there too. > And when in a good mood I finish off a document thus > http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=lucas+tp1 > where all pages are web viewable. Been too lazy to write a page to > page link on the page > view so far (need a round tuit). > > Dave Caroline > -- Richard Wallis Technology Evangelist, Talis Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis Skype: richard.wallis1 Twitter: @rjw IM: rjw3...@hotmail.com