2 things I'm trying to do

[Phil l'ancien]

Hi

2 things I'm trying to do, any help or advice very welcome :

A- "Printing" to one page pdf documents

There are several free software that can "print to pdf" : one uses
them just as if they were real printers, and they produce a nice pdf
file instead of printed paper.

Do you know one that can produce one pdf file for
every page ?
eg : you've got a 2 pages word document. when you "print" it
to pdf, you get 2 pdf documents, one for each page.

B- Taming process disk usage

There are several free software that can help manage
one's PC CPU usage (some work by dynamically lowering
the priority of the processes that use more than x% of the CPU).

Do you know if a similar utility exists that can manage not only
CPU usage, but also disk IO ?
Even a low priority process can render a PC othewise unusable
if it does intensive disk IO (especially with USB hard disks).

Phil l'ancien-

[Leonard Grey]

1. This is a newsgroup about Windows XP. If you're looking for PDF
software, I suggest you try a web search.

2. It is a serious mistake to try to 'manage' resource allocation. You
are working against the operating system, and that's not a good idea. In
addition, software applications do not know your 'improvements.'

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

[Phil Angus]

And the way to print to two different PDFs is simply print current page and
then repeat for the next etc.

"Leonard Grey" <l.g...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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[shawn]

I use CUTE PDF. I can just say print page 1. Then say print page 2. Kind of
cumbersome and annoying if you have many pages, though. I don't ever find
myself needing this feature, so it doesn't bother me.

"Phil l'ancien" <nic...@noway.com> wrote in message
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[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <4b27e2bd$0$893$ba4a...@news.orange.fr>, Phil l'ancien
<nic...@noway.com> writes:
[]

>A- "Printing" to one page pdf documents
>
>There are several free software that can "print to pdf" : one uses
>them just as if they were real printers, and they produce a nice pdf
>file instead of printed paper.
>
>Do you know one that can produce one pdf file for
>every page ?
>eg : you've got a 2 pages word document. when you "print" it
>to pdf, you get 2 pdf documents, one for each page.
>

The only way I know to do this is, as others have said, to use the
application (such as Word)'s own printing controls to just do a print
job for one page. Tedious if you have lots of pages, though.

I am intrigued: why do you need this procedure?

Final thought: maybe you could split the PDF afterwards; I don't know of
any (so I don't know if they can be configured to _automatically_ split
individual pages), but I'd be surprised if PDF splitters don't exist.
[]
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

All I ask is to _prove_ that money can't make me happy.

[Phil l'ancien]

J. P. Gilliver (John)
> Phil l'ancien

>>Do you know one that can produce one pdf file for
>>every page ?
>>eg : you've got a 2 pages word document. when you "print" it
>>to pdf, you get 2 pdf documents, one for each page.

> I am intrigued: why do you need this procedure?

Hi John.
I've constituted a rather big documents base (mostly pdf and word), and
use Google desktop to search it.

In that base, some documents are short and focus on a subject.
But most documents are press archive (Scientific american since 1997,
daily press , etc). With such documents, fulltext keyword search is not
very efficient. eg : suppose I want to know what Einstein thought about
neutrons.
Nearly every issue of scientific amercian contains the words 'Einstein' and
'neutron',
in the same article (that's interesting), or in two unrelated articles (not
interesting).

That's the reason why I'd like to convert my document base into 1 page
documents,
so the search gives more interesting results. Pages containing both
'Einstein' and 'neutron'
are much more likely to contain information of interest.

I wouldn't need to do this '1 page' conversion if I used a search engine
that has
the 'near' operator. Does the native windows indexing fonction have it ?

Phil l'ancien-

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <4b379461$0$17494$ba4a...@news.orange.fr>, Phil l'ancien

<nic...@noway.com> writes:
>J. P. Gilliver (John)
>> Phil l'ancien
>
>>>Do you know one that can produce one pdf file for
>>>every page ?
>>>eg : you've got a 2 pages word document. when you "print" it
>>>to pdf, you get 2 pdf documents, one for each page.
>
>> I am intrigued: why do you need this procedure?

[]

>That's the reason why I'd like to convert my document base into 1 page
>documents,
>so the search gives more interesting results. Pages containing both
>'Einstein' and 'neutron'
>are much more likely to contain information of interest.

Thanks for explaining.

>
>I wouldn't need to do this '1 page' conversion if I used a search engine
>that has
>the 'near' operator. Does the native windows indexing fonction have it ?

[]
Don't think so. Anyone know?

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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

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