evince and wading through treacle (ie slow)

Leon sdl.web at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 18:08:51 UTC 2006


On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:31:58 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:

> Does anyone else find that Evince is incredibly slow for pdf?
> It's taking minutes to display a single page, especially in
> longer documents.  But I can load the same thing in kpdf
> and arbitrarily jump around with no problems; seconds to load
> even complex pages.
> eg:
> <ftp://ftp.terratec.net/Audio/Aureon/Aureon7.1Space/Manual/Aureon7.1Space_Manual_GB.pdf>
>
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 7535 ian       15   0  109m  30m  11m S 82.3  3.1  11:28.29 evince
>
> -- 
> imalone

Xpdf is my major pdf viewer. Evince is an eyesore of gnome.

-- 
Leon




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