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Originally Posted by Project
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
Project
Rome, Italy
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I almost never use PDFs for this very reason. Sometimes on my desktop for a few pages, or if I want a printout of something.
I found this.. Since you're on a Mac, you can probably use the command line, which is BSD, I believe. The script is mostly compressing images. Or perhaps you could try converting the PDFs to something else, HTML or EPUB or something.
As for virtual memory, it's probably going to involve
swapon or some similar thing. You would likely have to make a swap partition on your SD card, then enable swap, and possibly reboot. Since you can just reflash, it might be worth it to experiment.
Do a search for virtual memory and "nokia internet tablet" or "nokia 770". I remember enabling it in my 770, and I expect that the process would be similar. However I don't remember the details, it was several years ago.
I'd help more, but I still don't have my machine.
m a r
EDIT: Oh, and try
xpdf, it's pretty barebones, might save enough memory.