Re: [evince] Evince 3.0.0 still hangs on PDF unfortunately.

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

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>De: jit thoong lim <jit_thoong hotmail com>
>Para: juanjo_evince <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>
>Enviado: domingo 3 de julio de 2011 18:00
>Asunto: RE: [evince] Evince 3.0.0 still hangs on PDF unfortunately.
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>thanks once again for reading my mail.  seems like they have a lot to sort out. since newer is not always better - i resorted to using 2.30 with wine in the mean time. hopefully time will resolves all issues.
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>btw. altough both (older window version and newer linux version) are slow, the windows version still outperform the linux version in wine!
>furthermore the windows version allows the map to be zoom to 400%. whereas the linux version limits the zoom to 150% which means the road names on the map are unreadably tiny on linux.  
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It is supposed pages cache was set dynamic in order to allow more zoom level. Maybe it was set to 400%, but you can't zoom till 400% in practice without having memory problems
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303365

>it is not just a performance issue anymore but also rendering issues in the newer version. 
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>finally  many thanks for trying out.  hopefully future versions will be better. i just wish there is a static build 2.30 tar.gz  for linux
>wine is ugly.
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I don't really understand why evince 2.30 for windows is faster, AFAIK it is based on poppler/cairo. Am I right, Hib ? Any idea ?


Cheers,

   -- Juanjo Marin