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February 27, 2006 8:00 AM PST

Adobe Distiller slow-downs apparently caused by Sophos AntiVirus

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MacFixIt reader Michael reports an issue where Adobe's Distiller may be slowed to a crawl by the presence of an active Sophos AntiVirus background scanning process.

Michael writes:

"I have a use who complained about slow pdf making via Distiller. We had changed nothing on his machine since he has started to notice the issue. He made a 560mb postscript file, which made a 6.9mb pdf. With Sophos turned on it took 42 minutes. With Sophos turned off 1 minute 38 seconds.

"I have spoken to Sophos who said to wait for v4.7 (which was released on Friday) as that now support exceptions. The problem is, that you can only exclude a file path (including the file) and not folders or file types. The issue is still with their tech support."

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    by reviewreader September 10, 2009 4:33 PM PDT
    Sorry, but I unstalled Sophos, and Distiller 9 Pro 9.10 is still extremely slow on Snow Leopard 10.6.1. So Sophos is not the only culprit here.
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