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This works and displays correctly, but is unbearably slow on iPad 2 whereas the PDF loads instantly. What is the point then or does it work a lot better in desk
by AndreasFrom 13y ago
This works and displays correctly, but is unbearably slow on iPad 2 whereas the PDF loads instantly. What is the point then or does it work a lot better in desktop browsers?
- tuananh 13y agoScrolling is laggy (rMBP 15 default spec) but usable.
- pjmlp 13y agoSlow as well on a dual core P8700 with 8 GB Ram.
- coolwanglu 13y agoI heard that with careful optimization on the server side and a clever JS may solve this. So far the default UI just demostrates the ability of reading-while-downloading. The idea is that now the document becomes more controllable and accessible, say you can put Google Analytics in your resume written in LaTeX; or maybe an social reading service, where you can comment, annotate and share. Unlike PDF viewers, web browers are never optimized for this kind of messy inputs. The next version of pdf2htmlEX will be focused on optimizations, e.g. smaller size of background images, hopefully that would help.
- nwh 13y ago> social reading service I truly wish there was at least one ground that hadn't been touched by "social" crap.
- twic 13y agoPorn?
- nwh 13y agoNope.
- coolwanglu 13y agoUsually I don't use social services, at least not "socially" (e.g. twitter as public text messaging). IMHO whether the service is crap or not, depends on what kind of stuff that it encourages you to do, either finding useful information, or playing boring games and pay for higher rankings. Still like old Google Reader with its OLD social features.
- StavrosK 13y agoOff topic, but is your username missing a "ke"?
- coolwanglu 13y agoum? why?
- stephenhuey 13y agoI believe he's wondering if your username is a reference to Cool Hand Luke. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/
- StavrosK 13y agoI was indeed, thanks.
- SigmundA 13y agoThe OSX Quartz graphic layer (also used in iOS) uses PDF internally as graphic object model. It is no surprise iOS handles rendering PDF's so quickly and so well and without the need for an third party app, it always has from the release of the first iPhone. This is also why print to PDF is built in on OSX.
- gcr 13y agoI thought it was postscript internally?
- dmd 13y agoNeXT and NeWS were Display Postscript. OS X / Quartz is PDF.
- Someone 13y agoIt is more accurate to say that both Quartz and PDF (and Postscript) use the same primitives (cubic Beziers, color models, graphic state, etc) PDF the file format adds many, many things to that (forms, encryption, DRM, notes, a JavaScript engine, reflow information, etc)