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Re: [Skim-app-users] Scrolling over formulars in JSTOR-documents is incredible slow

Christiaan Hofman
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:52:44 -0700

On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:31 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have here some documents about economics from JSTOR which include
> OCRed formulas. The first time I have to scroll by those formulas it
> is incredible slow. Scrolling with the cursor key seems nearly not to
> function. When I scroll via scroll-bar it stalls at first and after a
> while it jumps over the formulas but after that I can scroll back
> normally over those formulas. When there are graphs it scrolls slower
> as well the first time but not as slow as when there are formulas.
> If wished I can send an appropriate file via private mail to one of
> the developers.
>
> Niels

It seems JSTOR now encrypts the PDFs and Apple's PDFKit is slow  
decoding this kind of encryption. As this is PDFKit's doing, I'm  
afraid there's nothing we can do about this.

Christiaan



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