It doesn't work with PDFs, since it needs to create a tiled TIFF image for each page.

I don't know of anything similar for PDFs, since they're not really designed to render a portion of the document without downloading the entire thing.

You can convert PDF pages to images, though... :)

-Andrew

On 2011-10-03, at 12:09 PM, Parker, Anson (adp6j) wrote:

> So this is awesome, does it in fact work with PDF's or not, and if not
> does anyone have any similar tools recommended for pdfs
> ap
> 
> 
> On 10/3/11 11:12 AM, "Dave Caroline" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Diva was announced here of 6th of June
>> https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1106&L=CODE4LIB&T=0&F=&S=&P=27064
>> 
>> The clever part is you only send the visible part at the scale they
>> are viewing so little excess bandwidth.
>> 
>> For online document view it takes some beating and is not too hard to set
>> up
>> My demo is running on an adsl line from home, probably a worst case speed
>> demo.
>> 
>> Site is
>> 
>> http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/diva
>> 
>> real demo
>> http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/diva/demo
>> 
>> Dave Caroline
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Dave Caroline wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It is educational to look at memory use in the pc when that pdf is
>>>> loaded.
>>>> Evince here is using 600meg do you have space for such objects on
>>>> these little toys
>>>> 
>>>> try something like diva so you dont suck the resources dry on the
>>>> client
>>> 
>>> Please tell me (us) more about diva. I am not familiar with it.  --Eric
>>> Morgan
>>>