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From: karthikbalaguru on 13 Jan 2010 10:46 Hi, Many tools have the feature of printing a particular page or a continous range of selective pages. Similarly, Is there a free tool/protocol that will help in downloading a particular page of the document rather than the whole document(PDF or Word document or Linux based document files or PPT file or Excel file) ? It would be even more helpful if the tool has the feature of downloading multiple selective pages from the same document ! Similarly, is it possible to share only selective pages between two users rathre than sharing the complete document ? I think, sometimes if we might require to see only few pages of the particular document that is available in internet. So,rather than downloading the complete document, it is better to have only those few selective pages from that document. I think there are many advantages like quick dowload of user's desired contents only and saving of bandwidth. Any such tool/protocl available in either Linux or Windows environment ? Any ideas ? Thx in advans, Karthik Balaguru
From: Dusko Savatovic on 13 Jan 2010 10:54 Hi Karthik Balaguru, Your question is not related to server, networking and many other newsgroups. However, the short answer to your question is no. "karthikbalaguru" <karthikbalaguru79(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:19dbd3b7-1b3c-41d4-9ea2-4559c156ca1b(a)l30g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > Many tools have the feature of > printing a particular page or > a continous range of selective > pages. > > Similarly, > Is there a free tool/protocol that > will help in downloading a particular > page of the document rather than > the whole document(PDF or Word > document or Linux based document > files or PPT file or Excel file) ? > > It would be even more helpful if > the tool has the feature of > downloading multiple selective > pages from the same document ! > > Similarly, is it possible to share > only selective pages between > two users rathre than sharing the > complete document ? > > I think, sometimes if we might > require to see only few pages of the > particular document that is available > in internet. So,rather than > downloading the complete > document, it is better to have only > those few selective pages from that > document. I think there are many > advantages like quick dowload of > user's desired contents only and > saving of bandwidth. > > Any such tool/protocl available > in either Linux or Windows > environment ? Any ideas ? > > Thx in advans, > Karthik Balaguru
From: karthikbalaguru on 14 Jan 2010 11:28 On Jan 14, 1:15 pm, David Brown wrote: > Dusko Savatovic wrote: > > > "karthik balaguru" wrote in message > >news:19dbd3b7-1b3c-41d4-9ea2-4559c156ca1b(a)l30g2000yqb.googlegroups.com.... > >> Hi, > > >> Many tools have the feature of > >> printing a particular page or > >> a continous range of selective > >> pages. > > >> Similarly, > >> Is there a free tool/protocol that > >> will help in downloading a particular > >> page of the document rather than > >> the whole document(PDF or Word > >> document or Linux based document > >> files or PPT file or Excel file) ?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - > > Hi Karthik Balaguru, > > > Your question is not related to server, networking and many other > > newsgroups. > > > However, the short answer to your question is no. > > For a slightly longer answer as to /why/ the answer is no, you have to > look at the file formats. It is not necessarily impossible to view > early pages of a document before the end of the file is read in (acrobat > reader can do this with pdf files, for example), but later parts of the > files generally refer back to the earlier parts. Interesting ! > This is immediately > obvious with any compressed file format (such as pdfs, or open document > files), and with any binary-format file where the file reader > application cannot interpret later parts without having first read > earlier parts. > Okay ! Since the file reader can read on server side, it can transmit only the selected pages to save the bandwidth and enable quick downloading as we might need not wait for the download of the entire file. > You could always try asking the question in relevant newsgroups instead > of the random collection you've picked here, but you won't get any other > short answer, and I doubt if you'll get a long answer that helps you > much more. > Okay, I thought that this query is related to windows and linux environment in turn is in close connection to internet. Hence, i posted to those groups. But, anyhow since it has been conveyed that these are not appropriate groups, i wonder what kind of newsgroups can be used for this query. Should i need to post this to more generic groups like application development newsgroups related to linux and windows ? Thx in advans, Karthik Balaguru
From: Mark Hobley on 15 Jan 2010 17:08 David Brown <david(a)westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote: > You could always try asking the question in relevant newsgroups instead > of the random collection you've picked here My guess is that comp.infosystems is a more relevant group for this, but I haven't looked into that. (I have a similar query to yours on my todo list though, but I have no requirement to stick with legacy document formats. FWIW I am thinking of maybe converting abiword to an online document reader, or maybe looking at some variation of gopher, or even a man pager derivative). Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/
From: karthikbalaguru on 15 Jan 2010 19:59
On Jan 14, 1:15 pm, David Brown <da...(a)westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote: > Dusko Savatovic wrote: > > "karthikbalaguru" <karthikbalagur...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > >news:19dbd3b7-1b3c-41d4-9ea2-4559c156ca1b(a)l30g2000yqb.googlegroups.com.... > >> Hi, > > >> Many tools have the feature of > >> printing a particular page or > >> a continous range of selective > >> pages. > > >> Similarly, > >> Is there a free tool/protocol that > >> will help in downloading a particular > >> page of the document rather than > >> the whole document(PDF or Word > >> document or Linux based document > >> files or PPT file or Excel file) ?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - > > Hi Karthik Balaguru, > > > Your question is not related to server, networking and many other > > newsgroups. > > > However, the short answer to your question is no. > > For a slightly longer answer as to /why/ the answer is no, you have to > look at the file formats. It is not necessarily impossible to view > early pages of a document before the end of the file is read in (acrobat > reader can do this with pdf files, for example), but later parts of the > files generally refer back to the earlier parts. This is immediately > obvious with any compressed file format (such as pdfs, or open document > files), and with any binary-format file where the file reader > application cannot interpret later parts without having first read > earlier parts. > > You could always try asking the question in relevant newsgroups instead > of the random collection you've picked here, but you won't get any other > short answer, and I doubt if you'll get a long answer that helps you > much more. > I have checked the same in the below link - http://serverfault.com/questions/102608/tool-to-download-only-selective-pages-particular-page-from-a-document-closed Maybe, i might even check with the fileformat specific groups like acrobat(pdf), windows(doc/ppt/xls). openoffice.org and others. Karthik Balaguru |