Andrew, I’ve been having issues with it as well and I’m running a late 2013 mac book pro with 16 gigs of ram. I guess my main issue is when you find yourself in a page with a picture on it. Being able to navigate away from it was problematic for me. If you were able to find out how to do this Tim, I’d love to know. there have also been pdf files that upon interacting, it just said pdf content are and nothing more > On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > It’s very curious that you have had no issues with Preview since upgrading to > yosemite. For me, the problems started exactly after I had upgraded to the > latest OS. I wonder whether you think that this may have something to do > with the age of the mac I have. My macbook air is late 2010 and has only 4GB > RAM. However this was never a problem under Maverick. The other strange > thing is that quite often, if I call up contextual menu on a pdf file and > choose open with, instead of the usual list of apps that I might choose to > open the said pdf file with, I get just one result, i.e. fetching. I have no > idea what fetching is. There’s nothing else in the list. This is most odd. > > Best wishes > > Andrew >> On 3 Dec 2014, at 18:28, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Faisal, >> >> Admittedly, the pdf’s I frequently access are not as large as you’ve >> mentioned, although, just for investigative purposes, I opened a pdf I used >> to access on Open Directory Administration within OS X Servers. This pdf is >> 295 pages long with many or most of the elements you mentioned in the >> academic articles you are required to read. Upon opening it, VO announced >> that the document was 295 pages long and landed me on the pdf Content area. >> I interacted twice and began reading with no issues. Of course, I didn’t >> take the time to read all 295 pages but whether I went line by line or VO-a >> to start reading from where I was, VO read the pdf just fine. I realize >> that there are issues within Preview and it’s handling of certain tables and >> such within the document, but the headings, sub-headings and other textual >> content was read normally. Images and/or figure 2, for example, were not >> read for obvious reasons. I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t believe >> that the size of the file is the issue. I’m not sure what the issue is, nor >> am I trying to say that there’s no problems at all with Preview, but, I >> appear to be able to use Preview just fine with most pdfs. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 09:27, Faisal ali <faisal.a...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> Respectfully, I don’t know how complex the pdf files are that you are >>> working with Tim. My average article has 140 pages, with several headings >>> and sub headings not to mentions captions, end notes, foot notes and >>> complicated formatting which is typical of academic journals. A lot of >>> these also have several pictures in them so they are pretty complex. I >>> would imagine if its a pdf file with, say 20 or even 40 pages with no fancy >>> formatting or pictures, there would be no problems. >>>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 5:36 AM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I’ll try this when I am able, as it would be nice to have a workaround. >>>> Otherwise, Tim, I will send you one of the files I used to read with no >>>> problems. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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