9 Mar
1999
9 Mar
'99
4:17 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
At least on the one-piece docs such as found on 36bit.org, the first page is
displayed using the PDFViewer plug-in as soon as it's in, while Netscape
continues to download the entire document in the background. But this isn't
truly "pulling pages on demand", as the document has to be browsed serially.
Thus Acrobat Reader's "Go To Page" command isn't provided in the
PDFViewer
plug-in.
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The one
attractive thing we loose by creating 60meg PDF files is the
ability to browse pages without downloading the entire thing....
Or am I missing something in Acrobat that will pull pages on demand
from a table of contents?
If you "optimize" the PDF using Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or newer, and your
web server supports HTTP 1.1 byte-serving, and the user has the Acrobat
Reader plug-in for the browser, you do get page-at-a-time browsing. 
10 Mar
10 Mar
5:47 a.m.
As for prices: my searches show Adobe Acrobat at $175-$220, depending on
version, and Adobe Acrobat Capture at $550, and - shockingly -
20,000 page "upgrade packs" to extend the functionality of
Capture, at $375. That's right - it's limited and pay-as-you-go.
I don't know the page limit for the initial version, and 20K pages
is a lot of scanning.
What about Adobe Circulate? From the product description at
<http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/circulate/main.html>, it seems more
appropriate to the task at hand, keeping the digital image as well
as merging the OCR searchable text.
- John
1:32 p.m.
John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote:
As for prices: my searches show Adobe Acrobat at
$175-$220, depending on
version, and Adobe Acrobat Capture at $550, and - shockingly -
20,000 page "upgrade packs" to extend the functionality of
Capture, at $375. That's right - it's limited and pay-as-you-go.
No, no, no. "Acrobat Capture" is a product aimed at service bureaus to
do bulk conversion.
"Acrobat Exchange" (which will be renamed simply "Acrobat" starting
with
the soon-to-be-released version 4.0) includes a "Capture Module" which
does OCR. You don't have to pay $550, and you don't have to buy refills.
I think the deal with "Acrobat Capture" is that it will directly control
high-end scanners and do thousands of pages in unattended batch mode.
They have deliberately crippled "Acrobat Exchange" to prevent its use
in that manner, buy allowing only page-at-a-time scanning, and by not
importing multi-page TIFF files. I get around that by scanning the
pages in a separate program, using a hacked version of PDFlib/imagepdf
to import the images into a PDF file, and then using Exchange only for the
OCR and Optimization.
What about Adobe Circulate? From the product
description at
<http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/circulate/main.html>, it seems more
appropriate to the task at hand, keeping the digital image as well
as merging the OCR searchable text.
Which is exactly what I've been doing with Exchange. I'll have to read
about Circulate and find out what's different about it.
Eric
9:42 a.m.
New subject: Eagle II?
Anyone want an old Eagle II computer? It's been at the local Goodwill
store for awhile. If someone will save it, I'll get it for them.
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