evince and wading through treacle (ie slow)

[Ian Malone]

Does anyone else find that Evince is incredibly slow for pdf?
It's taking minutes to display a single page, especially in
longer documents.  But I can load the same thing in kpdf
and arbitrarily jump around with no problems; seconds to load
even complex pages.
eg:
<ftp://ftp.terratec.net/Audio/Aureon/Aureon7.1Space/Manual/Aureon7.1Space_...

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
7535 ian       15   0  109m  30m  11m S 82.3  3.1  11:28.29 evince

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imalone

[Dave Mitchell]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 02:31:58PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
>  Does anyone else find that Evince is incredibly slow for pdf?
>  It's taking minutes to display a single page, especially in
>  longer documents.  But I can load the same thing in kpdf
>  and arbitrarily jump around with no problems; seconds to load
>  even complex pages. 
Yes, I'm also finding it very slow compared with xpdf, acroread etc

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Never work with children, animals, or actors.

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Sat, 2006-02-09 at 14:31 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
>  Does anyone else find that Evince is incredibly slow for pdf?
>  It's taking minutes to display a single page, especially in
>  longer documents.  But I can load the same thing in kpdf
>  and arbitrarily jump around with no problems; seconds to load
>  even complex pages. 
Yeah, it's slow (I'm running Evince on a FC4 machine).  But, I like
Evince's thumbnail feature, so keep it around to generate the PDF
thumbnails which come in handy when browsing with Nautilus.  I then make
sure to open the PDFs with acroread.

Regards,

Ranbir

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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 
10:29:55 up 3:59, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.13

[Leo]

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:31:58 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:

>  Does anyone else find that Evince is incredibly slow for pdf?
>  It's taking minutes to display a single page, especially in
>  longer documents.  But I can load the same thing in kpdf
>  and arbitrarily jump around with no problems; seconds to load
>  even complex pages.
>  eg:
>
> <ftp://ftp.terratec.net/Audio/Aureon/Aureon7.1Space/Manual/Aureon7.1Space_...
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  7535 ian       15   0  109m  30m  11m S 82.3  3.1  11:28.29 evince
>
>  -- 
>  imalone 
Xpdf is my major pdf viewer. Evince is an eyesore of gnome.

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Leon