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[Frog Prince]

"indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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| Frog Prince wrote:
| > I for one HATE PDF as it is (at the very minimum) very difficult to
| > use, is a memory hog and the files are just too big.
|
| Huh? I've seen 10 MB powerpoint presentations reduced by a factor of 3-4
| when turned into PDFs.
|
| >Did I mention slow?
|
| Depends on the speed/RAM of the machine you're using for one.....it's
| incredibly slow if you're looking at a PDF on a website because it appears
| (to me, at least) that pages not in view don't load until you actually get
| to them, but right clicking, save as, then load it locally with Reader and
| it's a hell of a lot faster. I also like the ability to type the page
number
| into that little box at the bottom and jump right to where you want to
| go --- Word can't do that.

My personal PC is slow but my DIL's (at her shop) is 1G with 1 G of memory.
My wife's Mac G4 laptop with 1G+ ? of memory.  Regardless I still don't like
PDF as it is a hassle to access the data.

I think I've seen  mold grow faster.