Painfully slow scrolling in some papers

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grigoriev_dmitry

16 Apr, 2013 11:53 AM

Painfully slow scrolling in some papers. Pdfs are OCR and relatively small (not bigger than 3 mb).
Maybe I need some sort of optimization in Acrobat?

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by kaisa on 16 Apr, 2013 01:39 PM

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    Hi there,
    I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Indeed, the PDF is not rendered very well unfortunately. The same issues also seemed to happened with Preview.

    With Papers, we have to rely on Apple for the PDF rendering itself. Both Papers and Preview use the 'PDFKit' library that ships with Mac OS X. Apple pays Adobe a license fee for using the PDF format and Apple spent basically 5 years working on the PDFKit, before making it a public framework in Mac OS X.4.

    The only alternative PDF engine out there is the one produced by Adobe. Because the Adobe engine has some optimizations that the OS X engine does not have, it is different and it does handle better some of the weird layouts used by the difficult PDFs. Possibly, the PDFs you are having trouble with were produced by another Adobe product. There are other cases where some PDFs are rendered better in Preview or Papers than in Abobe's reader. Those special cases (one way or another) remain fortunately fairly rare, and will become even more rare as Apple and Adobe improve their engines over the years.

    Unfortunately we don't have the resources of Apple or Adobe and therefore there isn't much we can do about this :( However, the way forward is to report this to Apple, and finally use Adobe as an external viewer for the difficult PDFs.

    Thank you for your understanding.
    Best wishes,
    Kaisa

  2. kaisa closed this discussion on 16 Apr, 2013 01:39 PM.

  3. grigoriev_dmitry re-opened this discussion on 16 Apr, 2013 07:56 PM

  4. 2 Posted by grigoriev_dmitr... on 16 Apr, 2013 07:56 PM

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    Thank you very much for answer! I get it about pdf kit, but is it possible to do something with pdf optimization? Few months ago I have found on some forum solution: needed to make the optimization in the Acrobat Pro. Now I can not find this forum, but I know, that it is possible to solve this problem...

    Вторник, 16 апреля 2013, 9:39 -04:00 от "kaisa" <[email blocked]> :

  5. 3 Posted by grigoriev_dmitr... on 21 Apr, 2013 07:21 PM

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    Hi! I found the solution for my problem!
    You just need to change compression in Acrobat Pro.
    Advanced->Pdf Optimizer->Compression->Zip
    I hope it will help someone. 
    And thank you for Papers2, this software helps me a lot in my research!
    Good luck!

    Вторник, 16 апреля 2013, 9:39 -04:00 от "kaisa" <[email blocked]> :

  6. 4 Posted by grigoriev_dmitr... on 21 Apr, 2013 07:22 PM

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    Forgot a screenshot of the solution.

    Вторник, 16 апреля 2013, 9:39 -04:00 от "kaisa" <[email blocked]> :

  7. Support Staff 5 Posted by kaisa on 22 Apr, 2013 03:55 PM

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    Great to hear this :) Thank you for sharing this. Do you mind if we make this discussion public?

    Best wishes,
    Kaisa

  8. kaisa closed this discussion on 22 Apr, 2013 03:55 PM.

  9. grigoriev_dmitry re-opened this discussion on 22 Apr, 2013 03:57 PM

  10. 6 Posted by grigoriev_dmitr... on 22 Apr, 2013 03:57 PM

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    You are welcome! I don't mind=)

    Понедельник, 22 апреля 2013, 11:55 -04:00 от "kaisa" <[email blocked]> :

  11. Andrew Martin closed this discussion on 23 Apr, 2013 02:52 PM.

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