Thread: pdftoppm misbehaving, can't import books
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Old 07-05-2013, 02:31 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by MelBr View Post
Hi all,

I've noticed that when importing PDFs, sometimes Calibre becomes unresponsive and appears to crash. However, when I check processes, I notice that the problem is actually pdftoppm (which I presume generates cover image from a PDF). It uses tons on RAM/CPU and becomes unstable. After I kill pdftoppm, Calibre (sometimes) remains unresponsive and you have to force quit is as well. So you basically can't import some books because of a pdftoppm bug.



Is there anything that can be done? Can I disable pdftoppm?

Thanks

Using the latest Calibre, Mac version.
You may have a CPU cooling problem (as you noted, Calibre can grab big chunks of CPU crunch power) or bad RAM.
Yours is the first complaint on this I have seen here, so I don't think 'bug'
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