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How to render Word or PDF in pages or chunks
My company has extremely limited network capacity but wants to be able to store some large (50MB) technical documents on our Intranet. Given that our users can sometimes be limited to 40 kb/s download speeds, I'm trying to determine if there's any way to do this satisfactorily.
One possibility is serving the documents one page at a time on request, with the idea that a given page may only be a few hundred KB. Is there any method or product that people are pleased with that can do this? It doesn't need to be a free product. Googling thus far hasn't shown me anything obvious.
Its worth noting that I don't mind converting the document into another format, or into a byte[] stream, if necessary.
One possibility is serving the documents one page at a time on request, with the idea that a given page may only be a few hundred KB. Is there any method or product that people are pleased with that can do this? It doesn't need to be a free product. Googling thus far hasn't shown me anything obvious.
Its worth noting that I don't mind converting the document into another format, or into a byte[] stream, if necessary.
If I understand correctly, you want to be able to convert from word to PDF whatever page or however many?
If I am correct, this is your best friend. That's what I use. It is free and accurate.
http://www.wordtopdf.com/
You can also convert from pdf to word.
If I am correct, this is your best friend. That's what I use. It is free and accurate.
http://www.wordtopdf.com/
You can also convert from pdf to word.
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Sorry for the vague explanation:
I'm not particularly interested in the conversion. I just want my users to be able to download a single document in "pages" or "chunks", one at a time, so that instead of downloading 10MB through our tiny bandwidth, they're downloading 200KB at a time. They'd have to click "next page" or whatever to get the next bit.
It doesn't matter if the mechanism only works for PDF or Word; I'd rather manually convert the documents between those two than manually cut up dozens of giant documents into hundreds of mini documents.
I have no idea if there's a mechanism/product/service for this. I have a feeling I'm going to epically fail on this search :)
I'm not particularly interested in the conversion. I just want my users to be able to download a single document in "pages" or "chunks", one at a time, so that instead of downloading 10MB through our tiny bandwidth, they're downloading 200KB at a time. They'd have to click "next page" or whatever to get the next bit.
It doesn't matter if the mechanism only works for PDF or Word; I'd rather manually convert the documents between those two than manually cut up dozens of giant documents into hundreds of mini documents.
I have no idea if there's a mechanism/product/service for this. I have a feeling I'm going to epically fail on this search :)
ok, sorry for the misunderstanding.
You can use Vizit - http://www.vizit.com/vizit-pro/
It allows you to view the documents online, so it's downloading only the page you are viewing. They support multiple formats (over 300)- PDF, Word, TIFF.
It allows you to view the documents online, so it's downloading only the page you are viewing. They support multiple formats (over 300)- PDF, Word, TIFF.
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dp_expert:
This is excellent. I won't have time to test this until tomorrow but at a glance at their website, and pending whatever SharePoint problems I might encounter (not being familiar with the technology), it seems to answer my question perfectly.
I'm embarrassed (and annoyed) that my google searches didn't turn this up immediately.
Thanks :)
This is excellent. I won't have time to test this until tomorrow but at a glance at their website, and pending whatever SharePoint problems I might encounter (not being familiar with the technology), it seems to answer my question perfectly.
I'm embarrassed (and annoyed) that my google searches didn't turn this up immediately.
Thanks :)
Hope it will meet your need. I met these guys at SP Tech conference and the product looked really promising.
<My company has extremely limited network capacity>
Limited how?
Are you multi-site separated by very slow WAN links?
Standard LAN speeds dwarf what you have noted in the question.
What it sounds like you may need is to mirror at least part of your intranet site in multiple locations.
The documents would have to be sync out to each site once, but then the users could access them at LAN speeds.
Can you describe your network setup in greater detail?
Limited how?
Are you multi-site separated by very slow WAN links?
Standard LAN speeds dwarf what you have noted in the question.
What it sounds like you may need is to mirror at least part of your intranet site in multiple locations.
The documents would have to be sync out to each site once, but then the users could access them at LAN speeds.
Can you describe your network setup in greater detail?
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Hi Nick67
We're distributed through a large territory (nunavut, in northern Canada), connected primarily through satellite and wireless modems. The lucky people in the bigger towns communicate at a relatively-ok 200kb/s or so as I understand it (not being a network guy). The unlucky ones are much (much) slower.
I have in fact experimented with mirroring certain documents around as needed and will likely explore it more in the future, but have had difficulties in the past pointing users to the correct mirrors as needed. Right now I'm just checking out alternatives.
We're distributed through a large territory (nunavut, in northern Canada), connected primarily through satellite and wireless modems. The lucky people in the bigger towns communicate at a relatively-ok 200kb/s or so as I understand it (not being a network guy). The unlucky ones are much (much) slower.
I have in fact experimented with mirroring certain documents around as needed and will likely explore it more in the future, but have had difficulties in the past pointing users to the correct mirrors as needed. Right now I'm just checking out alternatives.
OK,
I'm in northwestern Alberta myself.
Have a gander here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/branchcache.aspx
The idea is simple enough.
Cost and expertise may be another matter
I'm in northwestern Alberta myself.
Have a gander here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/branchcache.aspx
The idea is simple enough.
Cost and expertise may be another matter
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Very cool. I can sort of see where this could be of help in my overall Intranet strategy. Thanks kindly.
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