manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jun 27 18:23:08 2004

At 10:47 PM 6/27/04 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> It seems to be bloody horrible on modern versions of Linux, too :-(
>> (well, at least on Redhat 9) Slow as hell, plus the rendering
>> quality is
>> pretty awful.
>
>I have a 2.8GHz Intel box running Debian at
>work and that works quite nicely (firefox
>and xpdf IIRC). I also have a 450MHz Intel
>box running Windows and Acrobat 6 on that
>runs like something that died quite a
>while ago :-)

   I had the same problem and I did some research on the net and found that
it's a known problem with version 6 of Acrobat. I erased it off my system
and installed version 4 and it works MUCH better. So far I haven't had any
problems running the older version. The other thing that I've found is to
NOT open documents on the net with Acrobat. Right click on them and do a
Save As. It will download in seconds instead of (literally!) hours. Then
open and use the saved copy.

   Joe
Received on Sun Jun 27 2004 - 18:23:08 BST