I'm on Sonoma 14.0 and have a very large PDF file (2000 pages). Every time I open it, Preview is extremely slow and quickly becomes nonresponsive, where I have to force quit. I've tried Adobe and it's better but I absolutely hate that program. Has anyone had this problem? Any ideas? Thanks.
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Preview and large pdfs
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It may not be due to the actual size of the file or number of pages but rather the fonts specified in the PDF are not system fonts. Preview will need to substitute the non-system font with something, which it handles poorly. Adobe Reader has more performant font substitution engine.
If font substitution is indeed the issue, you can ask the person generating the PDF to use system fonts rather than custom fonts. Perhaps if you knew the fonts, you could install them locally, but I really don't know if that will address the issue.
If font substitution is indeed the issue, you can ask the person generating the PDF to use system fonts rather than custom fonts. Perhaps if you knew the fonts, you could install them locally, but I really don't know if that will address the issue.
It's very odd... I opened the same file on my Mac Studio vs my 15" M2 MBA. It was better (due to the extra memory on the Studio but it was still laggy. Opened the same file with Adobe Reader and absolutely no problems. There's got to a be way of working with this file, no matter which computer I'm on.....