preview in publisher

[phillman5]

I  have found that editing a PDF much easier in Publisher than Adobe Acrobat, by FAR.  I have saved long news stories in Safari as PDFs, then gone through and removed all the ads in Publisher before forwarding.  However when then doing an export, the preview window takes quite some time, but then shows an almost blank preview. This has happened twice.

Biden Admin Negotiates Deal to Give WHO Authority Over US Pandemic Policies.pdf

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, phillman5 said:

However when then doing an export, the preview window takes quite some time, but then shows an almost blank preview. This has happened twice.

The export preview will show only the first page. If that doesn't explain it, we would probably need to see your edited file (saved as a .afpub) to comment further.

[phillman5]

It just one page, but very very tall, like over 70 inches  Before I attached the PDF, I have now attached the .afpub file.

Biden Admin Negotiates Deal to Give WHO Authority Over US Pandemic Policies.afpub

[walt.farrell]

Here is what I get for a Preview when exporting a PDF using Publisher 2.0.4. Seems fine to me. And did not take very long to generate.

[phillman5]

Here is what I get, Publisher 2.0.4, it took about 12 seconds to generate, I timed it.  Though the exported file seems fine.

 

MacOS Monterey, MBP Mid-2015, 2.8 GHz quad core i7, Memory 16 GB 1.6 GHZ, Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M379X 2GB.  HD: 1TB PCIe SSD 730 GB free.

[walt.farrell]

Interesting. So, it could be a problem only for Mac users, or perhaps it's related to a Performance option you have set in your application Preferences/Settings.

[phillman5]

I don't think I have changed many preferences, if any, I just played with the RAM usage and rendering settings with no changes.  The preview works correctly on other files with 'normal' page sizes, though it would be nice to see a preview of other pages other than just page 1, like in the print preview .  But I have two of these PDF generated files from long web pages after exporting from Safari that do the same thing, some times the preview shows one or two objects.  So where do we go from here?  Note this is not really a show stopper as the generated PDFs seem fine, they can be opened and checked, and I am not wasting paper printing out first.

[MikeTO]

13 hours ago, phillman5 said:

Here is what I get, Publisher 2.0.4, it took about 12 seconds to generate, I timed it.  Though the exported file seems fine.

I get the same blank checkerboard preview with the 2.1 beta on macOS Ventura. It takes about 5 seconds on my M1 Pro - I tried all the presets and flatten takes longer. I've seen this many times, there's something wrong with PDF previews on macOS.

There's a related bug I've been meaning to test and log that I duplicated with this today. If I then immediately scroll the right-side panes down using the scrollbar or drag scrolling, it will generate the blank preview a second time. There's definitely a bug in there, too.

[Callum]

Hi All,

I have logged this with our developers to be investigated further.

Thanks
C

[phillman5]

On 2/20/2023 at 10:40 AM, MikeTO said:

It takes about 5 seconds on my M1 Pro

gosh darn it, good data point, 5 sec on M1 vs 12 on Intel, 2.8 GHz Quad core i7, 16 GB RAM. I was thinking of pulling the trigger and getting the M2 16" MBP, my mid 2015 MBP can't upgrade to Ventura.  I was thinking of going the hack route to install Ventura anyway, now got to think some more.  Might wait it out til M3.  I recently 'rebuilt' this Intel with 3rd party PCIe 1 TB SSD that is considerably faster than stock.  I installed fresh Monterey on it, then Migation Assist all my stuff over from old SSD with Mojave.  It seem pretty lively to me.

[phillman5]

I edited another PDF export of a webpage, its not as long as the others, the preview took about 2 seconds at most, and did show.  Attached.