xpdf renders page slowly
Hi all,
I am currently using slackware-current with fluxbox is my window manager. I aim to have a light weight environment. But xpdf renders pdf very slowly. Are there any one having this issue before. Please help me out As alternative, i have to install wine and use Sumatra PDF. Thanks |
my xpdf loads quickly, but scrolling is BAD... cpu goes nuts, laptop fans start spinning... it's bad. don't know how to fix it. i installed epdfview (from sbo), it's lightweight but no continuous page view :(
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If xpdf fits your needs there are many other native pdf readers that will do so as well. |
This may be due to the content in your pdf documents. If your documents contain commonly used Windows fonts, then it may help to enable these fonts and correct the path to these fonts in /etc/xpdf.rc
In my /etc/xpdf.rc ( as compared to the Slackware defaults in /etc/xpdfrc.new ) I have: Code:
diff /etc/xpdfrc.new /etc/xpdfrc |
I can confirm this on 13.1. I can't remember if it worked correctly on 13.0, but something went wrong in one of the last two releases. Xpdf used to be fast before. I now use evince as the default viewer.
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I have one old machine still running 13.0 and Xpdf is very slow to render and scroll a simple six pages file. A quick search pointed to some 'floating point' issue with gcc44.
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I've found that recompiling it using the same config/make flags in xpdf.Slackbuild speeds it up a lot. It also makes it 40Kb smaller !
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You might want to try Foxit Reader. I use the binary downloaded from its web site. Works like a charm, no questions asked.
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I haven't found a document yet that xpdf renders slowly. Is there a pdf file out on the web somewhere that those of us who aren't having troubles can try to see what the problem may be?
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I like it lightweight too but in this case Adobe-s product is the "lighter" one. |
I don't care about fast. I care about secure and although all software is susceptible to vulnerabilities, it seems to me that Adobe have had more than their fair share in recent times. I simply don't have any faith in their ability to write secure software at this point.
xpdf works well enough for me. |
I've been using okular but just to see whats going wrong I loaded up a .pdf in xpdf and it ran fine for me except when I tried to scroll (scrolling took a second for it to load the rest of the page, but it wasn't that bad) but switching pages was almost as fast as okular, and it opened much more rapidly.
This is on a Slack13.1 install and I've never played with any settings or configuration or anything, just xpdf as it came with my install of slackware. So, I'm not sure if your problem is the scroll speed or not, but, I don't see that it's a significant loss in performance really. Maybe I just got lucky with my install though? |
Hi All,
Thanks for all of your help I did create a folder font, in xpdfrc, I added as below fontdir /home/your_directory/.fonts The speed improves, but still a little bit slow, but i am quite happy with xpdf now. Again, thanks everyone |
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