Slow PDF Viewing in Yosemite

For what it's worth, I have discovered the if you open pdf's (which won't display in Preview) in Google Chrome, the documents view fine. Imagine that, Apple!

Is this one version 7? i downloaded it but it says it's a power pc version and cannot work. can you kindly upload a version 7? Thanks!

It's ok l already found one. But it seems that the problem is not the preview app itself. version 7 is still lagging like the newer one in yosemite

The same problem here. Yes, installing the Adobe Reader now. Shame, though. Preview has always been on the best features I liked in OS X...

In another thread someone had me try this but the problem returned.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6715007

"Back up all data. Quit Preview if it's running.

Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following items, if they exist:

Containers/com.apple.Preview

Group Containers/com.apple.Preview

Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist

Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist

Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState

Log out and log back in. Launch the application and test."

Not really. Has it worked for you? But thank you anyway!

For me it worked fine, sorry to hear about your misfortune. Maybe it worked as I used preview from my backup instead of a downloaded one.

What do you mean when you write "from the backup"? Do you mean one of the previous versions of Preview, not the 8.0 of Yosemite?..

You better read the entire threat 😉 Yes I took preview 7 from my Mavericks Backup and ran it under Yosemite. It cannot be put into the applications folder but any other folder will do. Both 7 and 8 can co-exist. Worked well for me.

Aha, I see, thanks! Wondering where can I get the previous Preview version, since the Yosemite installation has replaced my Mavericks one. Could anyone share it maybe? Thanks in advance!

Looking forward to your ideas at kvartalny@icloud.com thanks in advance!

i have tried preview 7 on yosemite however i have the same issue

when i open large pdf files i run out of ram(10 mb available) and preview stops responding

my retina macbook has 8gb ram and 256 gb hdd

i fixed the issue returning to mavericks

the issue was only with large pdf files over 400 mb.i had no issue with small pdf files

with mavericks i cannot use iCloud drive and my iPhone cannot connect with retina MBP

i have decreased my storage plan from 200 to 20 gb because i cannot use this extra gb without cloud drive.Dropbox is still working.Thanks god dropbox is not developed from apple

i liked yosemite however i must read my medical pdf files (some pdf files are more than 1,5 gb)

i am going to wait for this issue to be solved and then install yosemite.

With mavericks i never had issue with pdf files even with some pdf files larger than 3 gb(i merged some medical pdf books and created a large pdf file) preview and search are super fast!

i am disappointed nevertheless i hope that apple will address this issue.

Tim Cook was named ‘CEO of the year’!

our MacBooks cannot read pdf files however this was a great success for Tim

congratulations Tim!!!

with all these awards and interviews Tim is very busy now ,there is not enough time for him to spend for operating system and such minor things and we must respect it.The awards and the interviews are always more important!!!

a surface pro 3 can do the job

i can still play angry birds on my retina macbook pro hence i am very happy!no need to read my medical pdf files.I have bought surface pro 3 for this.

Weird! I never noticed this, but I tried one of the sample PDFs in that thread and it seems to be an issue on my machine too! Sucky!

HOWEVER I found this worked for me:

Instead of OPENING the PDF in Preview, just use the space bar to view it with Finder Quick Look. It seems to be much better, right?

Click on the full screen button to view it in full screen.

Use the up and down arrows to go between pages, or scroll wheel, touch pad or whatever.

To zoom into the PDF (change the size of the pages) hold down the option key and zoom with your mouse wheel or if you have a magic pad/macbook you can pinch-zoom.

I have this problem too and it's annoying to the nth degree. Can't get any of my work done.

Scrolling is choppy, beachball ever-returning that I have to force quit and restart to read some simple PDFs of < 2MB file sizes. What is this!?

I am working with mid-2014 rMBP with 16GB of memory that apparently I upgraded for no good reason.

I have used disk utility and also tried using the Memory Clean app. There is plenty of RAM left.

I submitted feedback to Apple as suggested.

Honestly can't say I've been truly happy with OS X upgrades since Snow Leopard. How I wish I could have thee back.