Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:10:15 +0200 From: Veiko Palge <veiko.palge@uni-konstanz.de> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: evince so slow (compared to kpdf etc)? Message-ID: <1144588215.443907b7e7254@webmail.uni-konstanz.de>
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Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 12:27 +0200, Veiko Palge wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > evince (0.4.0/gnome2.12/FBSD 6.0 or 0.5.2/gnome2.14/FBSD 6.1) > takes > > forever to render *some* pdf documents (with other it's as fast as > > kpdf), for instance this one: > > > > http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/M743/M743.pdf > > > > kpdf renders it in an instant, so does acrobat7. And: so does > evince > > itself (0.4.0/gnome2.12) on dragonflybsd! I dont have a linux > > installation at hand to see how it works there. > > > > So it seems a FreeBSD specific thing to me --- can anyone confirm > this? > > What might be the cause? > > The only difference I see is that pkgsrc builds cairo with glitz > support > by default. However, building ciaro with glitz on FreeBSD does not > affect rendering time. D-Fly and FreeBSD 6.X are very different > operating systems. This may be some kind of pessimization in our > read > syscall, but I haven't really delved into it. > > Joe > OK -- I found out the following: -- evince on linux renders the above doc ok, so it seems a FreeBSD specific problem -- evince on FreeBSD renders many other huge .pdf files ok, so it seems specific to that kind of document -- evince on FreeBSD renders a .ps version of the above doc (http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/M743/M743.ps.gz) ok, so the problems seems with rendering certain .pdf files So what is so specific to that document? That it has type 3 fonts? Veiko --
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