The future of Linux - architecture and package

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 21 17:46:15 UTC 2006


Alan Cox wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:29:55PM +0100, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
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>>>> - xpdf         PDF file viewer for the X Window System.
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>>>Unusuably bad with most modern pdf files
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>>Allow me to disagree here, I can forward you quite a bunch of recent pdfs
>>evince can't read or just render the wrong way.
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>I didn't say anything about evince, evince sucks too. I can give you pdfs
>that xpdf takes a week to render and kdpf renders correctly in 2 seconds.
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>>For example I've got the manual for a Canon camera that has a big "COPY"
>>sign in the background and that's the only thing evince renders (on all
>>pages).
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>Evince/xpdf/gimp and also print (but not view) in kpdf all mess up pdf files
>which contain images with transparent backgrounds for one, so no suprises.
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Curious how KPDF works on files better when Evince doesnt where both of 
them use poppler as the underlying library.


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