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Bug 752036 - Evince extremely slow to render this PDF file
Evince extremely slow to render this PDF file
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-07-06 21:06 UTC by S.
Modified: 2018-05-22 16:16 UTC
See Also:
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Description S. 2015-07-06 21:06:47 UTC 
Hello,

Certain PDFs opened in Evince using the Poppler backend are extremely slow to render, to the point of being unusable. This is on a very fast Thinkpad laptop with a quad-core processor and an SSD. The same PDFs render instantly using a Windows PDF reader (http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer) (running under Wine!!).

This file is only about 2MB, but it takes many seconds to render each page:
https://ia600705.us.archive.org/26/items/kindergartencatho11albe/kindergartencatho11albe.pdf

On the other hand, some long, complex PDFs with images render quickly with Poppler, like this one:
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/paying-taxes/pdf/pwc-paying-taxes-2015-high-resolution.pdf

A Poppler developer claims that this particular bug is not Poppler's fault:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91249

I'm using Evince 3.14.2 on Ubuntu 15.04.

Thanks for looking into this.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 16:16:57 UTC 
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