Oliver_Henniges - 8:17 pm on Sep 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have begun to add my suppliers catalogues for download to my website. One covered I think more than 200 MB in the original version (200 pages with a lot of images), and in a first step I used GS-view to shrink it down to about 70MByte.

Then I designed an intro-page in html, where I put that hint to right-click-and-save the file and also a table with estimated download-time for various connection speeds.

Finally I used pdftohtml to provide an alternative html-version with minor quality for those who are interested in a first quick look-at, and placed a linkt to that html-index-page on the intro-page. If I remember correctly, pdftohtml did not work with the original version, because of the cmyk-format of the images or so, but it worked after shrinking and saving it with gs-view.

Let me add that googlebot initially had problems to swallow that pdf, but I recceived no error-message in my sitemaps account for months now. 70MB of unique content!

Our main problem now: We receive a lot of orders via fax from people who only tell us the product-ids from that catalogue, though we actually don't store those products;)

So, it seems an amazing number of people is using that download. The german telecom is currently working on a 50Mbit-highspeed infrastructure. I can see the days where my 10/100MBit Ethernet-Hub ist THE bottelneck.