On Jan 24, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Dave Caroline wrote: > PDF's take an obscene amount of memory to render so are ok for > printing but not easy reference, one large PDF would only make matters > worse there. Anyone using small amount of memory will soon be swapping > to disk. > > Local HTML should be very easy to setup as part of the install, > current docs have some overly large html pages IMO > firefox is happy with file:///usr/share/emc/html/.... > The user can then open links in a new tab so he can easily refer to > relevant items at the same time
I didn't follow the complete thread, but HTML rendering often takes even more memory, firefox with one page open == 72MB. Same page opened in Preview, 13MB Now, I am not saying that HTML is always bigger then PDF, but HTML browsers do with memory what cookie monster does with cookies. Take as much as you can, as fast as you can. I have yet to come across a browser take consumes the amouth of memory the page really is,t thus text +images. Just my 2cent Ries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
