On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 20:33 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> writes: [...]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.
FWIW, naming it as 'Evince' could be inaccurate. For instance, in Ubuntu you would find Evince 3.8 and poppler 0.20, and in Fedora you would find Evince 3.8 and poppler 0.22. Then, you have to add the version of cairo installed. More accurate could be stating poppler and cairo versions, and indicating Evince/Distro versions as a side note (or viceversa). AFAIK, most of the improvements between poppler and cairo versions are in rendering and performance. From the rendering point of view, those versions are more important than Evince version. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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