Huge PDFs and how to deal with them?

[Dennis...@adobeforums.com]

My organization has some truly enormous Word Doc files (thousands of pages). I'd like to be able to import these files into PDF format. However, I've noticed in my past dealings with really big files, that it can take a LONG time to download them for reading. How can I get around this issue (short of splitting the PDF into different physical filenames)?

Is there some alternative to multiple filenames that can be efficiently loaded and viewed?

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

[Everet...@adobeforums.com]

Hi Dennis,

If I understand correctly, you would convert the large Word files to PDF, which might then be viewed with Reader from within a browser? If this is so, then you could save the PDF files with the Fast Web View option, which linearizes the arrangement of content within the PDF. This means that you can start to view and navigate the PDF file before the entire file is downloaded.
One requirement is that the web server hosting the PDF file have the byte-serving feature enabled. I think this feature allows the server to stop and restart the download of the file.
Actually, to digress, in the Fast Web View mode, I wish that the PDF file would continue to download in the background after the current page is displayed. As it is for me now, with Acrobat 5, the download halts until I navigate to a new page. Then I have to wait for the download to restart.

Regards,

Everett

[Dennis...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks a bunch. That's what I had in mind!