Re: [evince] MuPDF backend for Evince?

[Ankush Mishra <ankushmishra9 gmail com>]

Hey José,

Thanks for the quick response. I see what you mean, with regard to Annotations, it seems to still have trouble with rendering them. Guess, I'll have to check up on Poppler.

Thanks again

Ankush

On 10/25/2016 10:01 PM, jose aliste gmail com wrote:

Of course, any work to make poppler render faster would be more than welcome, and would benefit a lot of Linux users (poppler being used in Evince and Okular)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:26 PM, jose aliste gmail com <jose aliste gmail com> wrote:

HI,

as I understand, muPdf has fewer features than poppler. For instance, I don't know if mupdf supports annotations. If you wish to have a Gtk+ Reader based on muPdf, I think your best options are to develop one from scratch. I doubt that such a backend would be accepted.

Greetings

José
 

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Ankush Mishra <ankushmishra9 gmail com> wrote:

I was wondering, about adding a MuPDF backend for Evince. Since, from what I notice, it's performance in rendering the PDF's is much faster as seen by:

    http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/opening_large_pdf_files_mupdf_comes_rescue/

    https://hzqtc.github.io/2012/04/poppler-vs-mupdf.html

As, can be noted in SumatraPDF, which I have used fairly frequently on Windows, it works pretty well.

I'm willing to help out or actually consider coding this from scratch, though, I have never touched the Evince codebase before, but am willing to try.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Much Thanks
Ankush Mishra

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