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blackberrys and pdf
i have a pearl through sprint 8130 and i have viewed pdf files before, small ones like 40kb.
i just got a book and its like 7mb (on memory card) and it wont open, any one know if there is a limit to how much the phone can handle opening?
your help would be awesome thanks
i just got a book and its like 7mb (on memory card) and it wont open, any one know if there is a limit to how much the phone can handle opening?
your help would be awesome thanks
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smiliey said:
i have a pearl through sprint 8130 and i have viewed pdf files before, small ones like 40kb.
i just got a book and its like 7mb (on memory card) and it wont open, any one know if there is a limit to how much the phone can handle opening?
your help would be awesome thanks
If my thinking is right (and I believe it is) the phones processor has to see the entire document before it can open it, thats asking a lot of a phone processor which typically run between 300 and 500 megahertz. They just don't have the horsepower or pipeline to open a file that large.
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yea man thats what i was thinking too.. do you know if it is possible to shrink down a pdf?
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smiliey said:
yea man thats what i was thinking too.. do you know if it is possible to shrink down a pdf?
I don't think so, but it is possible to split a pdf file into a smaller group of files, say breaking it up by page number groups and saving each group with new file names.
That would have to be done on a pc then it could be sent to or loaded on the phone.
You would new a program like this or one similar.
http://www.verypdf.com/pdfpg/pdf-splitter.html »
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tkboxer said:
If my thinking is right (and I believe it is) the phones processor has to see the entire document before it can open it
I believe that is correct.
thats asking a lot of a phone processor which typically run between 300 and 500 megahertz. They just don't have the horsepower or pipeline to open a file that large.
This is where you lost me. What are the respective file sizes for 300 and 500 megahertz? Perhaps you even have a source for this information?
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thats asking a lot of a phone processor which typically run between 300 and 500 megahertz. They just don't have the horsepower or pipeline to open a file that large.
This is where you lost me. What are the respective file sizes for 300 and 500 megahertz? Perhaps you even have a source for this information?
Smiley has a Blackberry with a 7mb pdf file on memory card that will not open. We were discussing that perhaps its because the typical smartphone has only a 300 to 500 MgZ processor and with narrow bandwidth for that data to flow through it could make opening a 7mb pdf file very slow or impossible. I don't know how else to explain it so hopefully it makes better sense now.
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