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_Manual_GB.pdf

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

[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

[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

[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_Manual_GB.pdf
>
> 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.