slow evince and remote X

[Norman Gaywood]

evince, and other postscript/pdf display programs are extremely slow
over remote X displays. This is on a 10M/bit switched network.

ghostview in FC1 also was also slow compared to what it was around RH 7
but the new evince (0.4.0-1.2 and older) are so slow that they are not
usable for remote displays. kghostview and kpdf are slightly better
but still slow.

Other programs like ooffice and even "gs -sDEVICE=x11" work very well
with remote X.

Anyone else seeing this?
-- 
Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia

norm at turing.une.edu.au            Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412
http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm    Fax:   +61 (0)2 6773 3312

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