On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 08:09:00AM -0400, igor denisov wrote: > Hello there, > > May someone help me with the following. > > My xpdf is very slow on pdf files from www.archive.org.
That is to be expected. Get the djvu files instead. There is no way to /decently/ use big image pdf files like those, even with acrobat reader and on the latest hardware.