evince so slow (compared to kpdf etc)?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 17:21 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 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.

For all but bindings.  I don't think we can move it over until we move
over gtk20, cairomm, gtkmm24, etc.  It will probably be safer to wait
for GNOME 2.16.

Joe

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