Re: [evince] How do I script Evince for rendering assessment?

[David Kastrup <dak gnu org>]

Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> writes:

> On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 19:44 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> writes:

> > > If you want to check rendering, then it is pointless to use Evince
> > > for that. Evince is just a shell and you might get different
> > > results depending of the version of poppler you have installed.
> > >
> > > Instead, you should use pdftocairo, which has the options you are
> > > looking for.
> >
> > Evince and Frescobaldi (a LilyPond shell) both use the same version
> > of libpoppler for their screen rendering on my system, with
> > strikingly different appearance and quality in output.
>
> Poppler has different backends to paint. Glib-based applications use
> cairo whereas Qt4-based applications use Arthur.
>
> In other words, pdftocairo and libpoppler-glib (the one used by
> Evince) are linked against to libpoppler-cairo.  libpoppler-qt4 is
> linked against libpoppler-arthur.

That would be relevant, yes.  Frescobaldi uses libpoppler-qt4.  So using
pdftocairo as a tool for predicting Evince quality could probably be
made to work.

Thanks

-- 
David Kastrup