On Tuesday 23 December 2014 9:11:28 am you wrote:
I've been having a couple problems with kpdf.
Both have been going on for
some time now; I don't remember exactly when they started, but it could've
been when I switched from 13.2 to R14 several months ago. This is on
Debian 7.
1. Occasionally it will refuse to render a single page of a multipage PDF
(or maybe a couple pages of a very long document), when other viewers
render all pages just fine. It's the same pages every time, and there's
nothing different about them that I can see -- just a random page in the
middle of a document. If I burst the PDF into individual files for each
page, it still refuses to render that same page.
2. It "forgets" a page as soon as it's no longer displayed, and has to
re-render it to display it again. It's as though Memory Usage is set to
Low instead of Normal or Aggressive, but the setting makes no difference.
This is very inconvenient in cases where it takes more than a fraction of a
second to render a page, which is the case with most of the PDFs I use.
3. One more that's not a new problem, just the way kpdf has always been:
It's extremely slow -- something like 3x slower than Adobe Reader, and at
least 50% slower than Evince. I'd have switched to one of those long ago,
but there are several features of kpdf that I really like.
Is there any chance of getting these things fixed?
Thanks.
+1, no solution though other than use what works.
I think kpdf could use some attemtion. Refer to bug #1, I added comments to
that bug concerning an issue with kpdf.
kpdf is good for quick views while browsing the web, for working with pdf's at
work I view with 'mupdf', and evince to working around bug #1 for my printing
pdf needs. Okular is nice but way more depends thasn evince..I could go on
and on about pretty DE's taking precedence over applications :-)
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Peace,
Greg