Hi, there. On Jun 03 2010, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > This change is for sure quite significant. BTW, do you know if the > internal code in xpdf is equivalent feature wise to poppler? I know > that poppler was a spin-off of the rendering code of xpdf. Do you know > how much they deviate one from another?
I have been keeping in touch with Michael about such smaller version of xpdf and, in fact, I started a xpdf-poppler project, that I announced at http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/2010/05/27/please-let-me-zoom-my-documents/ and that I am hosting at http://github.com/rbrito/xpdf-poppler/ Unfortunately, Michael didn't inform me that some Gentoo people had been already working on this, but that's not a problem and I will adopt the changes that he has in his codebase. Now addressing some of your concerns, I have already spent the last 3 or 4 days on the code of xpdf and the its rendering is "by parts" of a page, in contrast with that of epdfview and evince, which render a whole page in memory and, in particular, if you choose a large zoom factor, they barf on that. > The reason of my question is that there are several pdf viewers in the > repository based on poppler. One of them is evince which often crashes > on large pdf files. In these cases xpdf was an > old-and-slow-but-always-working solution. I have some questions here: * What do you mean by "old"? Old looking, perhaps, but thats due to its use of lesstif, right? Or did you mean anything else? * What do you mean by "slow"? In most cases, I think that it is, at least, of the same speed as others, even if using poppler. I have not yet benchmarked the differences between "pure" xpdf and xpdf+poppler, but I would say that they are very minor. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100603174338.ga2...@ime.usp.br
