I can confirm the problem is reduced but not resolved by turning off spotlight indexing. A time consuming work around is to trash all pdf's and use mac os print and save as pdf.
On 9/24/08, Larry Gusaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Robbie Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0431864709 Skype Name: retsil42 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
