On Nov 30, 2010, at 23:19, Rob Rye wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Bill Shack wrote: > >> On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:13 AM, Rob Rye wrote: >>> When running skim 1.3.10(59) under 10.6.5, I do not experience the sort of >>> delays you describe. I just opened a 540 page pdf and was able to scroll >>> immediately. Is it possible the problems you are facing are local to your >>> machine? >> >> I did notice that other users have not posted about this problem. It is good >> to have confirmation from other users that this may not be a general >> problem. I see it on both my MBP and my iMac. I am running 10.6.4. I will >> try upgrading my system next week. > > For what it is worth, I happened to have thumbnails off when I opened my > sample 540 page document. Turning them on produced a delay on opening similar > to what you reported. I had never noticed that delay before. So much for > being an observant scientist... > > Rob
For what it's worth, this was not the problem Bill Shack is having. And I doubt you will see *that* much of a slow down, because Skim never generates more thumbnails than it needs to display. He seems to have some assistive app running that makes use of accessibility. That can slow down Skim initially, because it tries to extract all text in the main view, and in continuous scrolling mode (as opposed to 1-page or 2-pages mode) this can be quite a lot for large files, and PDF is pretty inefficient for extracting text, while PDFKit's accessibility implementation is pretty bad and inefficient. If you want to avoid that, you can avoid using assistive apps that make use of accessibility, you may turn off support for accessibility. You could also try to set the hidden pref for enhanced accessibility (see the Wiki for details). But you will lose Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
