On 18 Nov 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> Hello,
>   I've just tried to view the PDF at 
> http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB)
> with xpdf.  It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl.
> top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the
> rest.  I left it running for a couple of minutes before killing it.
> 
> gv shows the page fine (though it doesn't get page 1 right).  I would have
> thought that my system (133MHz, 72MB) would be good enough to read a pdf,
> but ICBW.  Does anyone with a higher-spec machine, and a few minutes to
> spare, want to take a look at the file and see if they have the same
> problem?
> 
> Glyn
> 

Works OK here with a 600 MHz Celeron and 192Mb using Acrobat linked to 
Mozilla.

AC

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