[PDF] Downloading PDFs from the web

Guy Spencer

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Mar 1, 2002, 5:47:18 PM3/1/02

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I believe there used to be a setting in Acrobat or Distiller the would
specify whether the PDF would download page by page or the entire document.
The page by page was useful because it allowed you to see the first couple
pages before the entire download finished.

The question came up because the web log files for our PDF appear to be very
high. Im wondering if the log file is counting each page of the PDF.

thanks for your help

Jordon

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John Clifford

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Mar 1, 2002, 6:03:20 PM3/1/02

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I don't believe that it's a setting in any of the acrobat programs, but a
setting or script that you set up at the server for "byte-serving."

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on 3/1/02 2:40 PM, Guy Spencer at GSPE...@altera.com wrote:

> I believe there used to be a setting in Acrobat or Distiller the would
> specify whether the PDF would download page by page or the entire document.
> The page by page was useful because it allowed you to see the first couple
> pages before the entire download finished.

The word "byteserving" has gone through an evolution through various
versions of Acrobat.

If you "Optimize" a version 3 or 4 Acrobat file by checking the Optimize box
in the Save As dialog box, you are byteserving as you define it.

In version 5 of Acrobat, you can byteserve (now called "Fast Web View") a
file every time you conduct a Save As. You do this by checking the "Save As
Optimizes for Fast Web View" box in the Edit/Preferences/General/Options
menu window.

You can verify that a document is byteserved by looking at the File/Document
Properties/Summary in Acrobat 5. It will either say "Yes" or "No" next to
"Fast Web View."

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