2 things I'm trying to do

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Phil l'ancien

Hi

2 things I'm trying to do, any help or advice very welcome :


A- "Printing" to one page pdf documents

There are several free software that can "print to pdf" : one uses
them just as if they were real printers, and they produce a nice pdf
file instead of printed paper.

Do you know one that can produce one pdf file for
every page ?
eg : you've got a 2 pages word document. when you "print" it
to pdf, you get 2 pdf documents, one for each page.


B- Taming process disk usage

There are several free software that can help manage
one's PC CPU usage (some work by dynamically lowering
the priority of the processes that use more than x% of the CPU).

Do you know if a similar utility exists that can manage not only
CPU usage, but also disk IO ?
Even a low priority process can render a PC othewise unusable
if it does intensive disk IO (especially with USB hard disks).




Phil l'ancien-
 
1. This is a newsgroup about Windows XP. If you're looking for PDF
software, I suggest you try a web search.

2. It is a serious mistake to try to 'manage' resource allocation. You
are working against the operating system, and that's not a good idea. In
addition, software applications do not know your 'improvements.'
 
And the way to print to two different PDFs is simply print current page and
then repeat for the next etc.
 
I use CUTE PDF. I can just say print page 1. Then say print page 2. Kind of
cumbersome and annoying if you have many pages, though. I don't ever find
myself needing this feature, so it doesn't bother me.
 
J. P. Gilliver (John)
Phil l'ancien
Click to expand...
I am intrigued: why do you need this procedure?
Click to expand...

Hi John.
I've constituted a rather big documents base (mostly pdf and word), and
use Google desktop to search it.

In that base, some documents are short and focus on a subject.
But most documents are press archive (Scientific american since 1997,
daily press , etc). With such documents, fulltext keyword search is not
very efficient. eg : suppose I want to know what Einstein thought about
neutrons.
Nearly every issue of scientific amercian contains the words 'Einstein' and
'neutron',
in the same article (that's interesting), or in two unrelated articles (not
interesting).

That's the reason why I'd like to convert my document base into 1 page
documents,
so the search gives more interesting results. Pages containing both
'Einstein' and 'neutron'
are much more likely to contain information of interest.

I wouldn't need to do this '1 page' conversion if I used a search engine
that has
the 'near' operator. Does the native windows indexing fonction have it ?


Phil l'ancien-
 
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