Re: [Skim-app-users] Scrolling over formulars in JSTOR-documents is incredible slow

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On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

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> On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:31 AM, Niels Kobsch=E4tzki wrote:
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>> Hi!
>>
>> I have here some documents about economics from JSTOR which include
>> OCRed formulas. The first time I have to scroll by those formulas it
>> is incredible slow. Scrolling with the cursor key seems nearly not to
>> function. When I scroll via scroll-bar it stalls at first and after a
>> while it jumps over the formulas but after that I can scroll back
>> normally over those formulas. When there are graphs it scrolls slower
>> as well the first time but not as slow as when there are formulas.
>> If wished I can send an appropriate file via private mail to one of
>> the developers.
>>
>> Niels
>
> It seems JSTOR now encrypts the PDFs and Apple's PDFKit is slow
> decoding this kind of encryption. As this is PDFKit's doing, I'm
> afraid there's nothing we can do about this.

Seems to be really a Webkit-problem because in Preview the same =20
problem occurs (just tested it) :(

Niels=