1/26/02 12:29:46 AM, Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I was hosting some PDFs on my site for some Sony audio gear. What I found
>was that people would use it as an "online manual" all the time. It was
>killing my outbound bandwidth some days (ADSL, 128K out, 768K in) as
>people's browsers downloaded chunks of the PFDs while people scrolled around
>in them.
>
>Solved the problem by ZIPping the PDFs to prevent it. Now they either
>download the whole thing or leave me alone, a fact which my server logs
>confirm (and my bandwidth utilization has to have dropped, as well, based on
>those logs. I suspect that might be part of the solution for the ESIF.
>
>On-line PDFs are nice... but they're *tremendous* bandwidth hogs when people
>keep repeatedly downloading the whole things just to pop-up and re-read page
>8 in their browser window.
there we go! zipped (or compressed in whatever format)! or what about
converting the text in the pdf to text
(html) as a preview or quick reference, and then users can get the zipped pdf
if they still want. i'm sure you
chaps can write up some script to take text from pdf and make it html <g>
/A/S
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