Bug#444923: Acknowledgement (evince: particular PDF causes extreme memory allocation)

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 444923 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303365
thanks

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:55 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just tried this on a machine at work and experienced similar
> results. The PDF did actually render (well, the corner of it that was
> visible) but evince malloc'd about 80% of the memory in doing so (this
> machine had 1G of memory too). This dropped if I tried to interact with
> evince, although the interaction didn't cause any visible change
> (scrolling and menus etc. did not work).

Hi,

This is a known bug, and a big limitation in Evince. It zooms the whole
page, not only the visible part, which results in huge increases in
memory usage. This is also the reason why zoom is limited to 400%.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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