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Preview also now hangs forever converting most .ps files, where previous versions worked a-ok :( In fact, i haven't found a single .ps file it didn't hang on s
by DannyBee 10y ago
Preview also now hangs forever converting most .ps files, where previous versions worked a-ok :(
In fact, i haven't found a single .ps file it didn't hang on so far, but maybe i'm unlucky.
(so, basically, when i go to open an older paper, i have to go kill preview, run the paper through distiller, and then load it in something that isn't a disaster once i realize preview is also highly broken for pdfs anyway)
- DoofusOfDeath 10y agoCould you clarify what "forever" means in this case? (I'm sure you meant you timed out on the operation. I'm just curious how long you gave it.) And out of curiosity, was the CPU busy or idle during the long-running conversion step?
- kccqzy 10y ago"Forever" likely means it takes a really long time to do the conversion. In my case the CPU was busy. It's also really prone to failure, even for simple PS with just text no graphics, such as the kind of PS generated by groff(1) on man pages.
- DannyBee 10y agoI gave up after 10 minutes for a 4 page paper. CPU was idle :) I've attached debuggers to them and they appear to be sitting around in the same loop, probably never to exit ...
- pvg 10y agoSeeing the same thing and it's irksome. Preview will also choke on the pdf produced from such ps with ps2pdf. Acrobat opens them and when re-exported from Acrobat, Preview reads them again.