this may be slightly off-topic, as it doesn't pertain directly to the R application, but some of the documentation. when reading R's fullrefman.pdf (available from http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/fullrefman.pdf) in Mac OS X's preview.app (version 4.1, on Mac OS 10.5.x), if i try to do a keyword search within the document, the indexing step freezes about 2/3 the way through the progress bar. this completely locks up preview.app, which has to be killed by terminating the process. when reading the same document in Adobe Acrobat (Professional), no such problem occurs. i realize this is likely some strange bug with preview.app (and thus is something that should be sent to an Apple development group list). it's now been replicated on two of my machines (on my older OS 10.4 machine it indexes just fine with no freeze, the other two machines are both running OS 10.5). has anyone else experienced this? i sent in a bug report to Apple, but i doubt i'll see any change in preview.app prior to the next OS release. fullrefman.pdf is also the only document that i've ever observed this behavior with, and since i can now replicate it on two (very) different machines (one a PowerPC G5 PowerMac, one an Intel- based MacBook), i'm convinced it is more than a one-time anomaly (which is what i originally chalked it up to). or has anyone ever tried to regenerate the fullrefman.pdf doc itself from source? to be honest, i wouldn't even know where to begin to do this, but if it can get rid of this annoyance for me, i'd be more than willing to learn if someone pointed me in the appropriate direction. thanks much! - murat
> when reading R's fullrefman.pdf (available from > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/fullrefman.pdf) in Mac OS X's > preview.app (version 4.1, on Mac OS 10.5.x), if i try to do a keyword > search within the document, the indexing step freezes about 2/3 the > way through the progress bar. this completely locks up preview.app, > which has to be killed by terminating the process. > > has anyone else experienced this?Same here (MacBook Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS 10.5.6 with Preview 4.1), although it seemed to happen about halfway through the indexing process for me. Preview hangs with full CPU load and has to be killed. "sample" shows that two threads are waiting for a signal, while the third thread (the indexer) is busy normalising and "adding" text regions. I suppose that Preview has got stuck in an infinite loop, but don't know how to figure out where in the document this occurs (or what the root cause might be). Definitely a bug in Preview, though. Best, Stefan Analysis of sampling Preview (pid 11407) every 1 millisecond Call graph: 7918 Thread_2503 7918 start 7918 NSApplicationMain 7918 -[NSApplication run] 7918 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] 7918 _DPSNextEvent 7918 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode 7918 ReceiveNextEventCommon 7918 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode 7918 CFRunLoopRunInMode 7918 CFRunLoopRunSpecific 7918 __CFRunLoopDoObservers 7918 postQueueNotifications 7918 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotification:] 7918 _CFXNotificationPostNotification 7918 __CFXNotificationPost 7918 _nsnote_callback 7918 -[PVPDFDocument indexNextChunk:] 7918 - [PVPDFDocumentOutlineIndexer indexNext] 7918 -[PDFDocument selectionFromPage:atPoint:toPage:atPoint:] 7916 -[PDFSelection addSelection:] 4273 -[PDFSelection normalize] 1363 -[NSCFArray sortUsingFunction:context:] 1363 CFArraySortValues ... 822 -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:] ... 624 CFArrayGetCount 542 -[PDFSelection pages] ... 3244 objc_msgSend ...
mmuurr[AT]gmail.com wrote:> > ..... > has anyone else experienced this? i sent in a bug report to Apple, > but i doubt i'll see any change in preview.app prior to the next OS > release. fullrefman.pdf is also the only document that i've ever > observed this behavior with, and since i can now replicate it on two > (very) different machines (one a PowerPC G5 PowerMac, one an Intel- > based MacBook), i'm convinced it is more than a one-time anomaly > (which is what i originally chalked it up to). > .... >I have had the same problem. AFAICR, it started with Leopard. I have also sent bug reports to Apple. Nothing has happened yet. Nowadays I use Skim to view fullrefman.pdf and that works well (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/) Berend -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X---preview.app---fullrefman.pdf-tp21535696p21545778.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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