On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 12, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > > I think it would be a nice addition to have just not sure what kind of > api > > > we'd need. > > > > > > > Given the need for random access I guess you'd need to store the whole > > file in memory anyway. And the getChar() implementation could just > > block reading the stream when necessary. Would be simple, but far from > > optimal. > > > > > You could do that, but that would sort of remove the whole point, > yes??
Well, not entirely. It would still allow getting started with processing the document earlier, and if the document happens to be linear the first pages could be displayed faster than waiting for the whole document to finish downloading first before starting up the PDF reader. - Tommi _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
