{"id":42064,"date":"2024-02-07T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42064"},"modified":"2024-02-07T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:38:16","slug":"cgpdfservice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/07\/cgpdfservice\/","title":{"rendered":"CGPDFService"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/02\/07\/why-is-my-mac-working-so-hard-after-startup-whats-cgpdfservice\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/02\/07\/why-is-my-mac-working-so-hard-after-startup-whats-cgpdfservice\/\"><p>CGPDFService turns out to be quite a small background XPC process inside the CoreGraphics framework, located on the System volume (SSV) in the path \/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/CoreGraphics.framework\/Versions\/A\/XPCServices\/CGPDFService.xpc. The executable is around 313 KB, and is currently in version and build number 1, as it shipped with the first release of Sonoma.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>CGPDFService processes reset their user defaults, then await XPC connections from <code>mdworker<\/code> and <code>mdworker_shared<\/code> processes. Once those have extracted data to be added to that volume&rsquo;s Spotlight indexes, <code>mds_stores<\/code> compresses data passed to it by those <code>mdworker<\/code> processes.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>One solution for dealing with one or a few PDF documents that always choke CGPDFService processes is to isolate them in a folder that is excluded using the Spotlight Privacy list.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: CGPDFService turns out to be quite a small background XPC process inside the CoreGraphics framework, located on the System volume (SSV) in the path \/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/CoreGraphics.framework\/Versions\/A\/XPCServices\/CGPDFService.xpc. The executable is around 313 KB, and is currently in version and build number 1, as it shipped with the first release of Sonoma.[&#8230;]CGPDFService processes reset their user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-02-07T19:38:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"cd7b4979-8cbb-49f2-a8d6-d19943e5f050","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-07T19:38:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzXtJeYy7SfKo1tGZQ-XwUA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2385,345,1042],"class_list":["post-42064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-pdf","tag-spotlight"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42065,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064\/revisions\/42065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}