Everyone – I notice a process named CGPDFService at /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/CGPDFService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/ is taking a large amount of CPU time – any help here with just what this is
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Original Title: CGPDFService ??
CGPDFService works with the Spotlight processes to ensure that text in PDF documents can be found by Spotlight searches. If you have many existing, or new large PDF documents, you will observe that CGPDFService will consume more CPU resources as it is helping the Spotlight mdworker processes index these documents.
Without CGPDFService, you could not perform this type of Spotlight search to find the word "noumena" in a PDF with this criteria:
kind:pdf tag:uni pages:1 created:>01/01/2023 noumena
It is a legitimate Apple process.
It renders PDF pages to bitmaps so apps can display them.
Try restarting the computer which should put things right again
William1506 wrote:
Owl, many thanks! Knew it was legit, but was curious none the less. (Mmm, doing a lot of design and publishing, my Macs see a lot of PDFs...
You are welcome
Yes doing a lot of PDF work will do this
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Owl, many thanks! Knew it was legit, but was curious none the less. (Mmm, doing a lot of design and publishing, my Macs see a lot of PDFs...
What is the purpose of CGPDFService process in Mac's CoreGraphics framework?
