Preview.app problems in PB2

[tannutuva]

I've just updated to PB2 from PB1. When I open a PDF file, Preview.app stucks with beachball right after opening the file, or after scrolling a little bit.

The more important problem is navigation in the file does not work at all. Neither the table of contents list nor the links in the file does nothing. In Console, I see the following crash message:

21/08/14 22:48:13,663 Preview[985]: (
	0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff929efccc __exceptionPreprocess + 172
	1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8cc9e6de objc_exception_throw + 43
	2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff929f2c7d -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205
	3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff9293a094 ___forwarding___ + 1028
	4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff929f1358 __forwarding_prep_1___ + 120
	5   PDFKit                              0x00007fff8bd15279 -[PDFView(PDFViewInternal) goToDestinationNoPush:] + 269
	6   PDFKit                              0x00007fff8bd0c8a9 -[PDFView goToDestination:] + 127
	7   PDFKit                              0x00007fff8bd224f8 -[PDFViewController annotationHit:] + 142
	8   PDFKit                              0x00007fff8bd22287 -[PDFViewController trackMouse:forAnnotation:] + 2005
	9   PDFKit                              0x00007fff8bd0e342 -[PDFView mouseDown:] + 243
	10  Preview                             0x000000010d913740 Preview + 468800
	11  Preview                             0x000000010d913245 Preview + 467525
	12  AppKit                              0x00007fff8522b3cb forwardMethod + 129
	13  AppKit                              0x00007fff8522b3cb forwardMethod + 129
	14  AppKit                              0x00007fff8522b3cb forwardMethod + 129
	15  AppKit                              0x00007fff8522b3cb forwardMethod + 129
	16  AppKit                              0x00007fff8522b3cb forwardMethod + 129
	17  AppKit                              0x00007fff85796acf -[NSWindow _reallySendEvent:] + 12827
	18  AppKit                              0x00007fff8522c83c -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 368
	19  Preview                             0x000000010d8c0914 Preview + 129300
	20  AppKit                              0x00007fff851de2bc -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 2148
	21  Preview                             0x000000010d8a4181 Preview + 12673
	22  AppKit                              0x00007fff8506b908 -[NSApplication run] + 711
	23  AppKit                              0x00007fff85056d14 NSApplicationMain + 1832
	24  libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff8c5b55c9 start + 1
	25  ???                                 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2
)

Can anyone reproduce the same problems?

 

[AppleInTheMud]

The preview app has SO MANY bugs now. Almost useless. Nothing fixed in preview since first public beta 1 and it has just gotten worse.

But safari now works again

 

[dsemf]

Preview does not crash for me, but it does have some issues (PB2).

Touch pad scrolling does not work for the thumbnail list. I have to use the scroll bar. Jumping between pages by clicking on the thumbnail works.

The Table of Contents view does NOT switch pages if set for Continuous Scroll. Have to use either Single Page or Two Pages then page changes work. Page mode also appears to be required for internal links.

DS

 

[tannutuva]

I can confirm that navigation does not work if the viewing mode is "continous scroll" as you suggest. For the other two modes, navigation works as expected.

To clarify, Preview.app does not completely crash, i.e. not the main thread of it. However one of its threads crashes and dumps the log that I attached in my original post.

I also wrote a small app which uses PDFView. Same problems happened in that app too. I think this indicates that the bugs are coming from the underlying PDFKit framework of MacOS X.

 

[AlanShutko]

FWIW, I submitted rdar://18097782 for the ToC issue.

 

[Crosscreek]

I was unable to use Preview in Beta 2 also. Beachball and hang.