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Peter · Dec 16, 2004, 09:42 AM

Click image to load up big ass (readable) 750Kb pdf advert

wataru · 10:27 AM

I donated.

When I tried to view the PDF in Firefox with the PDF Viewer plug in, my system immediately started swapping out and I was dumped back into the log-in screen after a few minutes. Now I'm trying it in Preview and it's still taking forever. Jeez, this thing must be hefty!

Edit: Even Preview can't handle it on my machine. Can anyone actually view this file?

Edit 2: It turns out that only Acrobat Reader doesn't crash my machine when viewing this file. Whodathunkit?

hayesk · Dec 16, 2004, 10:19 AM

Not a bad ad, but I'd like to see a follow-up playing up the advantages a bit more.

DeathToWindows · Dec 16, 2004, 10:21 AM

yeah, I need to go out and get a copy of the Times

strictlyplaid · Dec 16, 2004, 10:28 AM

Yeah, I can see it quite easily, but I saved it to my desktop -- didn't even try viewing it in the browser. IMHO, Adobe's browser plug-in is no good (at least the Windows version.)

Originally posted by wataru:
I donated.

When I tried to view the PDF in Firefox with the PDF Viewer plug in, my system immediately started swapping out and I was dumped back into the log-in screen after a few minutes. Now I'm trying it in Preview and it's still taking forever. Jeez, this thing must be hefty!

Edit: Even Preview can't handle it on my machine. Can anyone actually view this file?

Edit 2: It turns out that only Acrobat Reader doesn't crash my machine when viewing this file. Whodathunkit?

mixin visuals · Dec 16, 2004, 01:19 PM

good stuff

shabbasuraj · 02:29 PM

So it took my RevC 12" PB a few minutes to load via Preview.

I had to turn off a number of programs to allocate more available memory for the damn file.

I guess there is much detail on that page...

geez...........

EDIT||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

I actually never opened up that file using preview, I shut it down as it was taking way to long...

used Acrobat instead, and it opened up instantly...

Kenneth · 01:53 PM

I donated as well. So it's on today's NY Times, right?

Too bad, the names are not searchable. I used Adobe Reader 6.0.2 to view it and I found my name on the last 5th row.

Xeo · Dec 16, 2004, 02:20 PM

Originally posted by wataru:
I donated.

When I tried to view the PDF in Firefox with the PDF Viewer plug in, my system immediately started swapping out and I was dumped back into the log-in screen after a few minutes. Now I'm trying it in Preview and it's still taking forever. Jeez, this thing must be hefty!

Edit: Even Preview can't handle it on my machine. Can anyone actually view this file?

Edit 2: It turns out that only Acrobat Reader doesn't crash my machine when viewing this file. Whodathunkit?

Found you.

But the line was split between your first and last name.

And yeah, Acrobat read that PDF a hell of a lot faster than Preview was. Preview was bringing my system to its knees.

Scientist · Dec 16, 2004, 02:28 PM

It opened in preview just fine for me...took maybe 10 seconds.

CharlesS · Dec 16, 2004, 02:39 PM

Big-ass is right. On my system, Preview grew its virtual memory space to at least a gig before I killed it, and it took some time to even manage to do that because of all the swapping. I never thought I'd see the day where Adobe Reader opened a PDF file much faster than Preview... what the hell?

Apple Pro Underwear · Dec 16, 2004, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by hayesk:
Not a bad ad, but I'd like to see a follow-up playing up the advantages a bit more.

i think what they are going here for is "piqueing interest" and curiosity of people to go to the website which will explain everything

i hear ya on listing advantages but i think this approach is more clever and better suited to the medium.

ae77 · Dec 16, 2004, 04:34 PM

that pdf killed my firefox. the irony.

shabbasuraj · Dec 16, 2004, 04:35 PM

ManOfSteal · Dec 16, 2004, 05:49 PM

Originally posted by wataru:
Whodathunkit?

ambush · Dec 16, 2004, 05:51 PM

Wow... Pb12+768 RAM... took several minutes.

Ouchie!

MacMan4000 · Dec 16, 2004, 05:55 PM

Cool looking in the png posted in the first post, but that pdf is massive... Im downloading adobe reader 'cause preview was making my computer run slower than virtual pc 5... (thats really bad, in case you haven't used VPC5). I had deleted adobe reader thinking I will never use it with an amazingly fast app like preview....

Amorya · Dec 16, 2004, 05:55 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
Wow... Pb12+768 RAM... took several minutes.

Ouchie!

PB12+512MB RAM - took about 20 seconds.

I wonder what the difference is?

Amorya

wataru · Dec 16, 2004, 06:22 PM

Originally posted by Amorya:
PB12+512MB RAM - took about 20 seconds.

I wonder what the difference is?

That's really weird. I'm on an iBook G4 800MHz with 640MB RAM. I tried this twice, and once was after a reboot, so it's not like my RAM was already full.

Kenneth · Dec 16, 2004, 07:38 PM

Preview.app just couldn't handle some PDF files as good as the Adobe Reader 6.0.x. Sometimes, preview.app refused to open .pdf files. Waiting for preview.app in Tiger.

shabbasuraj · Dec 16, 2004, 07:52 PM

Originally posted by Amorya:
PB12+512MB RAM - took about 20 seconds.

I wonder what the difference is?

Amorya

RevC 768MB RAM

Just for kicks I tried launching the file after a reboot, with no apps running...

Launched Preview, and Disk Monitor, and tried to open the friggin file, virtual memory went up to 2.5 gigs before I decided to kill the app.... (this took about 15 minutes to get to 2.5 gigs...)....

WTF?

d4nth3m4n · Dec 16, 2004, 08:39 PM

ibook 700mhz. 640 ram 10.3.5. loaded in preview in about 20 seconds. i don't know what y'all are talking about. took about 10 seconds to resize, but that's about it.

~120 mb of virtual memory.

figure that one out.

Gankdawg · Dec 16, 2004, 09:28 PM

See sig. 3 minutes and counting. Something's not right.

Zimmerman · Dec 16, 2004, 10:01 PM

Loaded in seconds on my Athlon 64 3200+ and gigabyte of ram...

CharlesS · Dec 16, 2004, 10:54 PM

Originally posted by Zimmerman:
Loaded in seconds on my Athlon 64 3200+ and gigabyte of ram...

Probably using Adobe Reader. Yes, we already know the pdf file displays properly in that app.

olePigeon · Dec 16, 2004, 11:54 PM

Something's wrong with your Preview. It opened in about 15 seconds on my Beige G3.

I'm still running 10.3.4, though. Maybe it's a bug in 10.3.7.

d4nth3m4n · Dec 16, 2004, 11:58 PM

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
See sig. 3 minutes and counting. Something's not right.

omg i owned joo!

Kenneth · Dec 17, 2004, 12:24 AM

Looks like this thread is all about the loading time... sad.

Xeo · Dec 17, 2004, 01:18 AM

Originally posted by Kenneth:
Looks like this thread is all about the loading time... sad.

While the ad is cool, the fact that (the new?) Preview can't handle it trumps it as far as something to talk about.

I let it sit for 5 min trying to open on my 1GHz iBook with 768MB RAM. It used up the 500+ MB RAM i had free and caused hundreds of thousands of pageouts, all while maxing out my cpu usage.

I wish I had an old install of OS X to boot from now, to test.

Lancer409 · Dec 17, 2004, 02:11 AM

really slick looking. especially the left page .. i like the logo too. better than an "e" with a swirly saturn ring around it .. lol

i miss my lighthouse..

TubaMuffins · Dec 17, 2004, 02:21 AM

argh, firefox has een pissing me off lately, freezing or just crashing, i have been forced back to safari until theres a new realease, the i'll see, but i'm sure gonna miss a lot of firefox's features.

alex_wlu_82 · Dec 17, 2004, 10:58 AM

PB12'' 640MB RAM 20 seconds ....

..... to force quit preview.app

Randman · Dec 17, 2004, 11:04 AM

About 15 seconds. No problems.

Synotic · Dec 17, 2004, 03:57 PM

I waited about a minute or two for it to open in Preview then force quit and finally opened it in Acrobat. I have a PowerBook G4 1.25GHz with 1.25GB of RAM. To the people who can actually open the file� what OS are you running and what version of Preview? 10.3.7 and 2.1.0 (v211) for me.

d4nth3m4n · Dec 17, 2004, 05:24 PM

panther.5 here, and 2.1.0 preview.