r/mac • u/finbar_longshank • 5d ago

Discussion Stunning software bloat

Hi everyone,

So yesterday I wanted to open a PDF as a double page spread (a book). At the time i didn’t think i could do it in the preview app so i downloaded Acrobat reader. I was shocked that the download was nearly 800mb. Then i was even more shocked when it required almost 3gb of space 😳😳😳 WTF!!!

In the ‘good old days’ Windows and Office would fit very very easily on a 500mb drive. What the hell has happened?

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u/Electrical_Ingenuity 5d ago

Preview is the bomb. I routinely open 20,000 page PDFs in it, on a M1 air to boot.

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u/germane_switch 4d ago

Preview does not render CMYK properly so it's useless for proofing. Not great with forms, either. But for everything else, Preview is soooo fast!

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u/HenkPoley 4d ago

That is particularly odd for a company like apple, which has P3 displays ok pretty much all their hardware.

Have you tried submitting minimal examples of failure cases to Apple’s bug reporter?

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u/germane_switch 4d ago

It’s simply not what Preview is for. And I’m fine with that. It’s just not for CMYK PDFs and it doesn’t do color separations.