Bug#441078: evince: extremely slow display of PDF document compared to xpdf

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Sat Sep 8 21:07:34 UTC 2007


reassign 441078 libpoppler-glib1 0.5.4-6.1
thanks

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 10:37 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> evince is extremely slow (more than a minute on my desktop) displaying
> this file:
>   http://www.earlham.edu/admissions/documents/pdf/PlanningaVisit%2007.pdf
> (The 0.9 version in experimental has the same problem.)
> 
> xpdf displays it in a few seconds.

Sounds like a problem with the cairo backend in poppler. (pdftoppm from
poppler-utils have no problem with it, and afaik it doesn't use cairo).

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Sven Arvidsson
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