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Iturea · October 10th, 2005, 02:51 PM

Hey is there any way for a browser to load a pdf file 1 page at a time. Right now we have some very large pdf documents on our website but it is very time consuming to have to wait until the entire thing downloads before you can really view it.

Creosote · October 10th, 2005, 09:24 PM

Nope. If a .pdf file was stored as plain text/xml, etc., then that might be possible--but its not

brandon184 · October 10th, 2005, 09:26 PM

Download all of them and then you won't have to wait for them anymore.

Creosote · October 10th, 2005, 09:38 PM

I think he wants to get around the fact that they are large files that take a long time to download--so either way the user will have to wait. I think the only two options besides doing nothing is to either try to optimize the .pdf files or transfer your docs to html. That's about it. But many sites have large .pdf downloads, for example, IBM Redbooks.

Iturea · October 10th, 2005, 11:37 PM

Thanks Creosote. Yeah I will have to turn them into html it looks like. Oh well!