[PDF] DOC->PDF Too Slow - Can You Help?
Paul Moloney
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I produce documents using Microsoft Word 2002 on an
AMD Athlon 1200+ machine (512Mb memory, 1000Mb virtual
memory, Windows 2000 Professional).
At the moment, it takes about 20-25 minutes to convert
a 100 page DOC file to PDF. This strikes me as far too
slow - is this the norm? I'm also getting "insufficient
memory" messages, which considering I have 512Mb of physical
memory, even more virtual memory, and have no
other applications open, strikes me as fairly incredible.
I also notice the Word document constantly repaginating in the
status bar - is this also normal?
The manuals I'm creating are fairly basic; fields
are used instead of MS Word's inbuilt numbering, and
there are no cross-references except for a single
one in the header of the document.
I'm producing PDFs with Acrobat Writer 5.05, using
the menu "Convert to Adobe PDF" button.
If anyone has any help, I'd appreciate it,
Paul.
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Vorel, Michael
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There are several tuning parameters on your computer you should take
advantage of:
Distill your documents with Acrobat Distiller
Make sure the "Temp" directory is on a partition with 1 GB
or more of free space
Set the "swap file" to two times your real RAM
If you wish more info, please contact me offlist...
Michael Vorel
Emerging Technologies Consultant
Bowne Business Solutions
555 5th Ave
New York, NY 10017
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Fax - 212-351-9109
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I produce documents using Microsoft Word 2002 on an
AMD Athlon 1200+ machine (512Mb memory, 1000Mb virtual
memory, Windows 2000 Professional).
At the moment, it takes about 20-25 minutes to convert
a 100 page DOC file to PDF. This strikes me as far too
slow - is this the norm? I'm also getting "insufficient
memory" messages, which considering I have 512Mb of physical
memory, even more virtual memory, and have no
other applications open, strikes me as fairly incredible.
I also notice the Word document constantly repaginating in the
status bar - is this also normal?
The manuals I'm creating are fairly basic; fields
are used instead of MS Word's inbuilt numbering, and
there are no cross-references except for a single
one in the header of the document.
I'm producing PDFs with Acrobat Writer 5.05, using
the menu "Convert to Adobe PDF" button.
If anyone has any help, I'd appreciate it,
Paul.
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Paul Moloney paul_m...@hotmail.com mob: +353 87 2695 384
http://www.paulmoloney.org
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Ryan J. Dzierniejko
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Here's a tough question for you all...
Right now I have an online application and when the user submits the form I
have the ability to store the data in an online Access database. What I
then do is just copy the data from the online database into a local database
on my computer and I have a module written that uses FDF to layer this
information ontop of a PDF form. I can then print out this form and it
looks like a typed application.
I want to change the process slightly though. What I want is for the user
to submit the form and when the new entry is submitted to the online
database there is code written to activate the module and run the FDF code
that I've created (thereby layering the data over the PDF form). Once this
is done I want the actual PDF form with the layered data to display on the
user's computer screen so that they can print it off themselves.
Pretty crazy eh? If you have any further questions or if I can clarify
anything you can send me an email at 8r...@qlink.queensu.ca
Thanks in advance,
-Ryan.
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Paul,
Maybe you have the same problem I have had for one or two years before I
found by chance the reason:
I got from a customer some Word97 files which where very very heavy to
translate to pdf (time and pdf file size), while other quite similar files
had no problems.
The reason was the author had drawn lines and/or table borders with fine
dotted line.
In this case, PDFMaker (or Distiller, no difference) wasted one's time in
translating an endless number of tiny line segments !
After correcting dotted lines into normal lines, no more problems!
Michel Lausseur
Aalto Consultant
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At the moment, it takes about 20-25 minutes to convert
a 100 page DOC file to PDF. This strikes me as far too
slow - is this the norm? I'm also getting "insufficient
memory" messages, which considering I have 512Mb of physical
memory, even more virtual memory, and have no
other applications open, strikes me as fairly incredible.
Paul.
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Leonard Rosenthol
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At 01:19 PM 3/8/2002 -0500, Ryan J. Dzierniejko wrote:
>Right now I have an online application and when the user submits the form I
>have the ability to store the data in an online Access database. What I
>then do is just copy the data from the online database into a local database
>on my computer and I have a module written that uses FDF to layer this
>information ontop of a PDF form. I can then print out this form and it
>looks like a typed application.
OK...
>I want to change the process slightly though. What I want is for the user
>to submit the form and when the new entry is submitted to the online
>database there is code written to activate the module and run the FDF code
>that I've created (thereby layering the data over the PDF form). Once this
>is done I want the actual PDF form with the layered data to display on the
>user's computer screen so that they can print it off themselves.
Completely reasonable. In order to this you have two choices -
either client-side data merging or server-side merging.
The former is the easiest and simply requires you to send the FDF
back to user's brower where it will get merged by Acrobat into the PDF
specified in the FDF.
The latter requires the purchase of 3rd party tools - BUT does
have a number of advantages...
Leonard
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At 03:22 PM 3/8/2002 +0000, Paul Moloney wrote:
>I produce documents using Microsoft Word 2002 on an
>AMD Athlon 1200+ machine (512Mb memory, 1000Mb virtual
>memory, Windows 2000 Professional).
>
>At the moment, it takes about 20-25 minutes to convert
>a 100 page DOC file to PDF. This strikes me as far too
>slow - is this the norm?
What options do you have enabled in PDFMaker? If it's doing a
"thorough conversion" including bookmarks, links, structure, etc. then it
could well take a while. Try turning some of that stuff off and see the
improvements...
Leonard
Ryan J. Dzierniejko
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> >Right now I have an online application and when the user submits the form I
> >have the ability to store the data in an online Access database. What I
> >then do is just copy the data from the online database into a local database
> >on my computer and I have a module written that uses FDF to layer this
> >information ontop of a PDF form. I can then print out this form and it
> >looks like a typed application.
>
> OK...
>
>
> >I want to change the process slightly though. What I want is for the user
> >to submit the form and when the new entry is submitted to the online
> >database there is code written to activate the module and run the FDF code
> >that I've created (thereby layering the data over the PDF form). Once this
> >is done I want the actual PDF form with the layered data to display on the
> >user's computer screen so that they can print it off themselves.
>
> Completely reasonable. In order to this you have two choices -
> either client-side data merging or server-side merging.
>
> The former is the easiest and simply requires you to send the FDF
> back to user's brower where it will get merged by Acrobat into the PDF
> specified in the FDF.
>
> The latter requires the purchase of 3rd party tools - BUT does
> have a number of advantages...
>
>
> Leonard
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Completely reasonable. In order to this you have two choices - either client-side data merging or server-side merging.
What are the advantages of each.
Advantages
* Can be done entirely with free software
Disadvantages
* Requires Adobe Acrobat 3.0.2 or later
which means Mac OS or Windows only!
* Requires properly configured browsers on user's computer
* Requires properly configured server software
* Longer/larger downloads
* Less flexible in terms of data returned (text only, limited font selection)
Server Side
Advantages
* Supports ANY PDF viewer on ANY OS platform
* Smaller/faster downloads
* Support for images, vectors and fancy text (if desired)
Disadvantages
* Requires the purchase of 3rd party commercial software
Leonard
Aline Damphousse
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Could also be because of the way the document is structured.
For example, how many headers are you using in your document? Header 1 to
what? If you go beyond Header 3 in the manual, I would keep it not further
than header 3 in the pdf. Makes for a realllly long table of contents
(bookmarks). In the pdfmaker options, try to remove some the styles to
reference (if that is the case).
But really, 100 pages should be done in minutes.
HTH
Aline
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Paul Moloney
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Thanks to all for their help. So far, I've just used Acrobat
"out of the box", and simply click on the icon "Convert
to Adobe PDF" icon that it places on the MS Word toolbar.
This icon seems to use PDFMaker (though I can't
tell which printer driver it uses), so maybe I should reinstall
Acrobat without PDFMaker, and see what happens.
P.
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Paul Moloney
> Distill your documents with Acrobat Distiller
I wish I could, but I don't seem to be able to!
When I use the buttons in the MS Word toolbar, these
only seem to use PDFMaker, not Distiller.
I know there is a Distiller printer driver which
can be used. However, when I select this, and print,
nothing appears to happen. The dialog box closes,
and no new PDF file appears anywhere on my machine.
I've tried the help that come with Acrobat, but
quite frankly, it's useless. It refers to options
in the Office toolbar that don't appear there, for
example.
I did an uninstall in order to get rif of PDFMaker.
However, obviously not everything is installed as
the buttons for it still appear in MS Word.
Any ideas?
P.