So On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > 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
Sorry. My error. I somehow got it in my mind he was talking about a few seconds slow down on opening. After reading your response I went back and looked at Bill's note again and saw he was seeing a minute or more delay. I never see that. Rather, I see opening times of a couple seconds on an i7 chip machine and up to 7 seconds on a Core Duo machine with a 500+ page document. While not instantaneous, that sort of opening time is certainly trivial compared to the time it will take me to read the document in question. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
