From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 10:49:53 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3D116A420 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4BC13C4D1 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JST004PMY34C950@l-daemon> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:49:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JST000CLY34X990@pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:49:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from soralx ([24.87.3.133]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JST00JR9Y32N600@l-daemon> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:49:51 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:49:50 -0800 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <47538035.2090402@pacific.net.sg> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20071210024950.2f805b31@soralx> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org> <4752F4CA.5050805@chuckr.org> <20071202194136.75180d66@peedub.jennejohn.org> <20071202191902.360295ef@soralx> <47538035.2090402@pacific.net.sg> Cc: chuckr@chuckr.org Subject: Re: handling pdfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:49:53 -0000 > >> I personally find that xpdf looks OK. > > > > Same here, though I do remember to have that cramped characters > > problem before. I think it was in PDFs created by OpenOffice > > swriter. When I used the "other" OS to print these PDFs, there were > > cramped characters > > THe other OS? Are you talking about Linux? Nope, there's a whole crapload of Linuxen, but nearly all people out there seem to be aware only of _the_ OS made by Macrobug. > > on paper. > > > I have this problem occasionally only with xpdf. Evince displays the > files then without any problem just as kpdf. Can you upload a screen bitmap? I wonder if that's the same snag I stumbled upon... > > BTW, 'tis slightly off-topic, but had anyone else noticed that xpdf > > is rather slow in rendering pages? I remember, when I had a chance > > to > > I think so too. I seem to believe it's X.org's problem. Consider: -- resize xpdf to a small window, and it get much faster; -- if you open hundreds of tabs in Opera, everything in Opera get unbelievably slow (scrolling pages, even moving cursor with cursor keys is very slow). 'opera' and 'X' eat all the CPU cycles; -- some graphics-intensive (lots of vector objects?) apps (Eagle, Opera) take too long to redraw when changing workspaces. I'm thinking about sending a PR. Should I bother, or it's a known bug? > Erich [SorAlx] ridin' VS1400