pdfinfo - what is that for ?

[Argos]

Lately i noticed that the pdfinfo process is running at very high cpu, over 90%. what is it and can i disable it ?

thanks

[theread]

Re: pdfinfo - what is that for ?

Have a look at this page :

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_pdfinfo.htm

where you will see that this object gathers info about the .pdf document you are about to read. I can't see why you would wish to turn it off but on the other hand I do not have enough knowledge of the kpdf source code to tell you how to disable it.

Are you viewing large complicated pdf's to cause this amount of CPU usage?

Hope this helps

Roy

[Argos]

Re: pdfinfo - what is that for ?

Are you viewing large complicated pdf's to cause this amount of CPU usage?

well.. i do open big pdf files occasionally. and i do notice that the process will run opening a pdf file. my problem is that the process is working 90% and up, slowing my computer.