Preview Crashing

[ikramerica]

I have Sequoia .1 on my M1Pro 16" and the Preview App is constantly hanging with spinning beachball of death on larger files. These files opened without issue in 12.X, but after upgrading to 15.1, large files are just problematic. They may work for a while, then try to move to the next page and nope... Also, some graphics only load 1/2 way on pages.

 

[ikramerica]

After playing with it more, it's not so much completely locking up as just taking the amount of time you would expect of a 286 PC to zoom or unzoom on a page. It eventually either gives up on zooming (but thinks it's done it, like saying it's zoomed to "1 page" even though it isn't) or finishes the zooming after stalling for 3 or more minutes. The CPU usage for preview goes up to 60% in Activity Monitor while showing it as not-responding.

Obviously some kind of bug there.