On Wednesday 27 August 2008 16:59, Donald D Henson wrote:
...
I have a client who publishes a weekly newspaper. He wants to put all but the current edition online. The software he uses to publish the paper has only pdf output. He's been posting the pdf files directly but the paper is growing and the delay between when a user clicks the button and something shows up on the screen is becoming bothersome to his readers. I figure that if we can convert the pdf to html, we can play all sorts of games to make the display show up faster.
I don't understand. Are you saying that each edition includes all the previous ones? Why would he do that? If the problem is just the size of each individual edition, which is growing over time, then you should be producing Web-optimized versions of the PDF. They will display the first page as soon as possible, not requiring the entire document to be retrieved before anything is displayed. Now, if there is no open-source software that can produce this format PDF file, then I suggest you simpley accept that fact and buy a copy Acrobat so you can produce properly optimized PDF files. Converting PDF to HTML is guaranteed to produce inferior results. I don't recommend it. Playing the kind of games you hint at is unlikely to benefit your end users. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org