On 26 May 2009, at 9:26 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On May 25, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > >> >> On 25 May 2009, at 10:50 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> each time I do a first search when opening a pdf, the ATSserver >>> >>> process runs for many minutes, using 50% of my CPU, before I can get >>> >>> any results. The following searches will work instantaneously >>> though. >>> >>> >>> >>> If I close Skim and then reopen the same document and do the same >>> >>> search, I have to wait another round for ATSserver to finish >>> whatever >>> >>> it is doing (I suppose indexing, but I don't understand why). >>> >>> >>> >>> Is it possible that my ATSserver or my Skim are broken somehow? >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> kaz >>> >> >> Probably not. This is probably the spotlight importer at work. Don't >> know how this is triggered and why, Apple doesn't tell us too much >> about the inner workings. > > From previous debugging, I believe that ATSServer is also used for > fonts embedded in the document, and creating/activating those fonts > can be expensive.
Yes, that's what I was referring to. Spotlight import of PDFs is always pretty expensive, as the whole PDF needs to be parsed to get the text, and that includes interpreting the font. The PDF format unfortunately doesn't have a separate text stream. > The Spotlight importer wouldn't help with Skim's searching, as far > as I know. No, the idea was to use it for Spotlight, and include the notes as well. But as it wasn't used, it wasn't relevant. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
