Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:25:21 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: Veiko Palge <veiko.palge@uni-konstanz.de>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: evince so slow (compared to kpdf etc)? Message-ID: <1152397521.24207.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <op.tcd5p8ug9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <1144588215.443907b7e7254@webmail.uni-konstanz.de> <1152388022.44b00bb64b650@webmail.uni-konstanz.de> <1152389031.24207.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <op.tcd5p8ug9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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--=-0PfISkWjVSpdIByrHgcX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 17:21 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:03:51 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke =20 > <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > When will cairo 1.2.0 move from MC ports to offical ports tree? I believe= =20 > 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 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-0PfISkWjVSpdIByrHgcX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEsDDRb2iPiv4Uz4cRAoj4AJ9eIWdj3CRY+tOd7jBle4E5EdsEZACgjCRw t5egfIefG2nIRgt/pLEdbOg= =/yk7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0PfISkWjVSpdIByrHgcX--
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