evince so slow (compared to kpdf etc)?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 21:47 +0200, Veiko Palge wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I recompiled poppler by disabling the cairo backend (added 
> --disable-cairo-output to CONFIGURE_ARGS in poppler Makefile) so that
> evince uses the splash backend by default and the problem disappeared! 
> Evince now renders all kinds of documents it could not render before,
> like eg
> 
> http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/M743/M743.pdf
> 
> The versions are: poppler 0.5.3, evince 0.5.3_1.
> 
> I wonder if the poppler port could be changed so the user can choose
> between splash and cairo while compiling the port?  Perhaps a note
> about the situation would also be useful?  

Submit a patch, and we will investigate.  Of course, this PDF should be
tested with cairo 1.2.0 to see if that also gets rid of the performance
problem.

Joe

> 
> best, Veiko
> 
> --
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Veiko Palge <veiko.palge at uni-konstanz.de>:
> 
> > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 12:27 +0200, Veiko Palge wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello, 
> > > > 
> > > > evince (0.4.0/gnome2.12/FBSD 6.0 or 0.5.2/gnome2.14/FBSD 6.1)
> > > takes
> > > > forever to render *some* pdf documents (with other it's as fast
> > as
> > > > kpdf), for instance this one: 
> > > > 
> > > > http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/M743/M743.pdf
> > > > 
> > > > kpdf renders it in an instant, so does acrobat7.  And: so does
> > > evince
> > > > itself (0.4.0/gnome2.12) on dragonflybsd!  I dont have a linux
> > > > installation at hand to see how it works there. 
> > > > 
> > > > So it seems a FreeBSD specific thing to me --- can anyone
> > confirm
> > > this? 
> > > > What might be the cause?  
> > > 
> > > The only difference I see is that pkgsrc builds cairo with glitz
> > > support
> > > by default.  However, building ciaro with glitz on FreeBSD does
> > not
> > > affect rendering time.  D-Fly and FreeBSD 6.X are very different
> > > operating systems.  This may be some kind of pessimization in our
> > > read
> > > syscall, but I haven't really delved into it.
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > > 
> > 
> > OK -- I found out the following:
> > 
> > -- evince on linux renders the above doc ok, so it seems a FreeBSD
> > specific problem
> > 
> > -- evince on FreeBSD renders many other huge .pdf files ok, so it
> > seems
> > specific to that kind of document
> > 
> > -- evince on FreeBSD renders a .ps version of the above doc
> > (http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/M743/M743.ps.gz) ok, so the
> > problems seems with rendering certain .pdf files
> > 
> > So what is so specific to that document?  That it has type 3 fonts?
> > 
> > Veiko
> > 
> > --
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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