On May 12, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> Well, not entirely. It would still allow getting started with
> processing the document earlier,
Not unless the file is linearized. If it is not, then you have to
download the entire document anyway - since you need the xref (and
it's at the end of the file).
> and if the document happens to be
> linear the first pages could be displayed faster than waiting for the
> whole document to finish downloading first before starting up the PDF
> reader.
>
True - provided you modified poppler/Xpdf to support reading the
linearization tables AND THEN modified the browser plugin that wraps
poppler/Xpdf to handle byte serving requests along with modifications
to your GStream to integrate the fetches (since it won't be a linear
stream any longer - it will be a dynamic random-access set of fetches).
Leonard
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