handling pdfs?

[soralx at cydem.org]

> >> I personally find that xpdf looks OK.
> > 
> > Same here, though I do remember to have that cramped characters
> > problem before. I think it was in PDFs created by OpenOffice
> > swriter. When I used the "other" OS to print these PDFs, there were
> > cramped characters
> 
> THe other OS? Are you talking about Linux?

Nope, there's a whole crapload of Linuxen, but nearly all people out
there seem to be aware only of _the_ OS made by Macrobug.

> > on paper.
> > 
> I have this problem occasionally only with xpdf. Evince displays the 
> files then without any problem just as kpdf.

Can you upload a screen bitmap? I wonder if that's the same snag I
stumbled upon...

> > BTW, 'tis slightly off-topic, but had anyone else noticed that xpdf
> > is rather slow in rendering pages? I remember, when I had a chance
> > to
> 
> I think so too.

I seem to believe it's X.org's problem. Consider:
  -- resize xpdf to a small window, and it get much faster;
  -- if you open hundreds of tabs in Opera, everything in Opera get
     unbelievably slow (scrolling pages, even moving cursor with cursor
     keys is very slow). 'opera' and 'X' eat all the CPU cycles;
  -- some graphics-intensive (lots of vector objects?) apps (Eagle,
     Opera) take too long to redraw when changing workspaces.

I'm thinking about sending a PR. Should I bother, or it's a known bug?

> Erich

[SorAlx]  ridin' VS1400