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Old 07-30-2009, 06:34 PM   #538
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Originally Posted by rogue_ronin View Post
It's probably a memory issue. The Q7 has only 128 MB of memory. PDFs are great fat pigs with memory -- giant pics, SVGs, etc.

There is a way to make the SD card (or a partition of it) function as virtual memory -- but I don't know it off the top of my head, I'd have to use Mr. Google. And without my machine, I cannot experiment.

Or it could be corrupted PDFs, I suppose. If you can convert them to smaller files, it might help, too.

Luck,

m a r
I'm suspecting a memory problem too, but I've tried with no success to shrink the size of the incriminated pdf files. I tried several applications, on mac and pc (pdf shrink and pdf compress on the mac are the ones that I remember now, but I tried a couple on pc too), but usually the size does not change that much and evince quits anyway after a few pages reading the (slightly) smaller pdfs.

Do you have any hint on a software that could do a good job on reducing pdf size and, or, can you give me a few more indications regarding googling about the use of the sd card as virtual memory? (I tried googling but I could not find anything related, so I probably did not use the right terms)

thanks in advance

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