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| jka... |
 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:17 pm |
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Hello,
I have a lot of books in PDF format and searching within these files
with Adobe reader goes terribly slow. Indexing seems to be the solution,
but the indexers I find don’t seem to be connected to a viewer that
jumps to the corresponding offset in the pdf file. What is the best
solution? |
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| Peter Flynn... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:19 pm |
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jka wrote:
Quote: Hello,
I have a lot of books in PDF format and searching within these files
with Adobe reader goes terribly slow. Indexing seems to be the solution,
but the indexers I find don�t seem to be connected to a viewer that
jumps to the corresponding offset in the pdf file. What is the best
solution?
I posted a short script in c.t.p to do this last month (see "Re: Can
Results From A Search By Adobe Reader 9 Or Another Software Be
Exported?" message-id <7j9s0lF34o81iU1 at (no spam) mid.individual.net>) which can
give you page and paragraph number.
xpdf (and maybe others) can take a page-number argument after the
filename and will open the document at that page. The script could
easily be adapted to call xpdf with the page number of a reference.
Be aware that "page number" in both the script and in xpdf means the
sequential page number of the document starting at 1 regardless of
whatever digits are printed on the page (because the PDF documents
doesn't know they are page numbers). Unless you use some sophisticated
PDF-creation software that adds "targets" to the document, it isn't
possible to open to the "page number" that is *printed* on a page.
///Peter |
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| Don Schmidt... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:19 pm |
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Give PDF-Viewer a try; it performs well in my searches.
http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/
You may like the Pro version (modest cost) which has some great features.
--
Don
Vancouver, USA
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Quote: Hello,
I have a lot of books in PDF format and searching within these files with
Adobe reader goes terribly slow. Indexing seems to be the solution, but
the indexers I find don’t seem to be connected to a viewer that jumps to
the corresponding offset in the pdf file. What is the best solution? |
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