iPad pdf flail
May. 1st, 2011 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelSo, okay.
The choir that I am in is performing a piece of music that is not only in public domain, but is available as a PDF file. The department provided us with nicely printed out copies using said PDF; there is enough music that even just as papers stapled together, it is rather unwieldy. (For me. Then again, any sort of book type thing is unwieldy for me.
But aha, I think, I have an iPad; iPads can display PDF files; I do not find the iPad unwieldy; PROBLEM SOLVED.
(you'd think)
There are two problems.
One: bits of the pdf show up as blank white on the iPad. Partial pages. It is complete on the printout version; it displays on my PC, except that there is half a second of lag before the offending bit displays; it does not display right on the iPad.
Two: There is significant lag when I 'turn' pages. When I have counted seconds, it has been anywhere up to ten. This is a problem when I need to see what my next note is.
I tried splitting the original pdf up into sections (each movement has a top-level bookmark) to see if the problem, at least the second one, was file size. It didn't help at all. I suspect now the problem is that it is highly image-based, or something, rather than text-based.
On advice from someoneon rav I tried switching it to the original pdf engine, and also turning "higher quality images" off. Still problematic. I tried toggling the option to pre-cache adjacent pages. Still problematic.
...does anyone have ANY idea how I can get this to work? I will love you forever.
The choir that I am in is performing a piece of music that is not only in public domain, but is available as a PDF file. The department provided us with nicely printed out copies using said PDF; there is enough music that even just as papers stapled together, it is rather unwieldy. (For me. Then again, any sort of book type thing is unwieldy for me.
But aha, I think, I have an iPad; iPads can display PDF files; I do not find the iPad unwieldy; PROBLEM SOLVED.
(you'd think)
There are two problems.
One: bits of the pdf show up as blank white on the iPad. Partial pages. It is complete on the printout version; it displays on my PC, except that there is half a second of lag before the offending bit displays; it does not display right on the iPad.
Two: There is significant lag when I 'turn' pages. When I have counted seconds, it has been anywhere up to ten. This is a problem when I need to see what my next note is.
I tried splitting the original pdf up into sections (each movement has a top-level bookmark) to see if the problem, at least the second one, was file size. It didn't help at all. I suspect now the problem is that it is highly image-based, or something, rather than text-based.
On advice from someone
...does anyone have ANY idea how I can get this to work? I will love you forever.
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Date: 2011-05-02 07:05 pm (UTC)