Larry Gusaas, 2008/09/23 1:08 AM:
Robert Barnett, 2008/09/23 12:26 AM:
Hi,
I rountinely make PDFs with Open Office 3.0 for Mac for distributing
to my
students. However it seems that as of OSX 10.5.5 the pdfs from open
office crash quicklookd. Quicklook generates thumbnails for Finder and I
cannot prevent this from happening.
I've posted this on the MacOSX support forums, but I'm wondering if
anyone
has an idea of what is going on here.
Here is an example document
http://sites.google.com/a/barnett.id.au/interactive-workshop/Home/bugs/AttenuationScatterCorrectionPartialVolumeEffect.corrupt?attredirects=0
I couldn't download your file but your problem sounds similar to the
problem I had after upgrading to OS 10.5.5. Every time I went to a
folder with a lot of PDF files I had created, the CPU usage would go
to 100% for both cores and my computer would become totally
unresponsive requiring a start button shutdown. The faulty process was
ATSserver. There were tons of fatal exceptions in the System log.
My solution: Go to System Preferences/Spotlight/Search Results and
uncheck 'Fonts'.
I haven't rechecked it yet to verify. I had previously tried several
things including deleting all font caches without solving the problem.
I had read about problems in the past that some people had. Spotlight
apparently tries to index the fonts in the pdf files.
I spoke too soon. The problem has returned - intermittently - but I have
narrowed down what causes
the system lockup.
In finder go to folder with pdf files created by OO.o. Folders that
haven't been opened since update to Mac OS 10.5.5 almost always cause
100% CPU usage and system lockup. Folders that have previously been
opened have no problem some times but occasionally lockup system.
Opening a pdf created with OO.o with Preview sometimes lockups the
system - 100% cpu usage. Sometimes opens but marks on document and bad
rendering of some characters. Also tried opening one pdf with Adobe
Reader. It also locked up the system.
The faulty process is ATSserver. Anytime I have been able to view
activity monitor it shows that process using all of the CPU resources.
If anyone has seen any solutions to this please let me know.
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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -
Edgard Varese
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