PDF crashes again

2010-05-19 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, So this one is perplexing. I got a ultra fast macbook with 8 gigs of ram and an SSD clocking speeds of around 300mbps give or take on read and write, then i purchase a book from o reilly media, i get all excited, and the pdf crashes on me I tried then to open it with skim, which open

Re: PDF crashes again

2010-05-20 Thread Yvonne Thomson
I have these hassles with PDF files too. There isn't really a way around it. The main thing I've found is to uncheck the continuous option in Skim. You'll have to read it a page at a time, but it's less likely to crash. The other thing I did was install a pdftotext script. If I've got a file th

Re: PDF crashes again

2010-05-20 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Thanks for that part, I will look for a pdf to text converter like squeeze or something, but my books are like 800 pages or so. Hope it works for them too Best -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send em

Re: PDF crashes again

2010-05-20 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi Again, I tried file juicer and it works fine but it only does half the job, and all the indexing goes away, which in my case is not good as i reference myself a lot to it. I've tried shrink it as well but my 29 meg file only looses about 600k in the process. Do you know where i can find a