17th October 2007, 10:25 PM
It's not really an issue of computer speed so much as PDF files suck. The thing is, each time you scroll to a new page, the program has to load that new page, as opposed to loading the entire file at once so that you scroll smoothly. Notice how it's jerky around the time you get to that new page? Yeah, it has to load that. The bottle neck is hard disk access really.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. What can PDF do that HTML can't do 100 times better? Why does anyone even bother with PDF?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. What can PDF do that HTML can't do 100 times better? Why does anyone even bother with PDF?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)