Suggestion: Read-ahead functionality

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AlexT
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Suggestion: Read-ahead functionality

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First of all, congratulations for this wonderful product. I finally made the jump from a competing product to XChanger Viewer Pro and don't want to ever look back. :D

A feature suggestion: Give users the option to make XChange Viewer read ahead the next unread page after idling for x seconds/microseconds on the current one. My reasoning is that usually when people read a page, the CPU is idle, and we could use that free CPU power to already read ahead/pre-render the next page to allow for a faster page flow. A lot of picture viewers use the same technique. You could offer that optional feature in the rendering or performance option menu.

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Stefan - PDF-XChange
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Re: Suggestion: Read-ahead functionality

Post by Stefan - PDF-XChange »

Hello Alex,

And thank you for the suggestion!

We have already discussed it here:
https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/ ... =35&t=7253
so I will just add that this will be delayed for version 3 of the Viewer, the first releases of which are expected later this summer.

Best,
Stefan
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Re: Suggestion: Read-ahead functionality

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Thank you!
Last edited by AlexT on Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:18 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Suggestion: Read-ahead functionality

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You are welcome!
:D

Regards,
Stefan