evince so slow (compared to kpdf etc)?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:03:51 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke  
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> 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.

When will cairo 1.2.0 move from MC ports to offical ports tree? I believe  
that the 1.2.0 is both source
and binary compatibility.

Cheers,
Mezz

> 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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