GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 359221
Very slow to open centain pdf files
Last modified: 2007-09-03 11:14:06 UTC
Please describe the problem: I've found that evince is very very slow (several minutes) opening some pdf files, e.g http://www.rygamb.dk/samlet.pdf Adobe (on the same Gnome box) open the same file in 2-3 seconds ... There are no error messages from evince when running from CLI Steps to reproduce: 1. Yes - repeatedly and consistently 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
Can't reproduce the bug here with Evince 0.6.0 and Poppler 0.5.3 (cairo). Evince isn't the fasted application I have ever seen, but the PDF is opened in about 4 seconds.
Hmm... odd! Is there anyway I can find out what evince is doing ... evince -v samlet.pdf does not produce any output, no errors etc. Soren, Denmark
Soren, you can try to strace it, but I'm to sure how much useful it will be: $ strace evince samlet.pdf
I ran strace for several minutes ... you can find the file (1.6Mb) here: http://www.rygamb.dk/strace_output.txt -Soren
Created attachment 78691 [details] NSW_tradinghour.pdf Try this pdf file, it took ages to open
Created attachment 78983 [details] strace output with cairo-1.2.6 and cairo-1.3.10 Using evince-0.7.0, poppler-0.5.4 and cairo-1.2.6, I cannot open NSW_tradinghour.pdf with an Intel Core Duo 1.6 Ghz and 2GB RAM memory. NSW_tradinghour.pdf cannot be loaded using cairo-1.3.10. Since strace outputs are different, I attach both in a compressed file. I hope it helps, Pablo
Looks like a bug in the poppler cairo backend. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12266 Thanks for reporting.