[snips from daid / Willie Wong] > > evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long > > or have big figures. > > That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer > is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have > the printing problem. [snip]
[also sorry if I used HTML formatting earlier, sometimes it is turned on for me and I forget] It could have been this crazy pdf I was printing, which was one of the first times I was really using evince a lot since other things were also complaining. I had pdftk'ed different files, and I think some of them were like US Letter and others were A4 and others weren't specified. Well, I kind of erased that experience from my memory, but I know almost everything on different OSes didn't like what I'd done, whatever it was. So this could be a very bad test case. There was something else in my mind from testing it that made me kind of shiver in a bad way, but I forget. It should be a good program from what I know, however. > > The interface for xpdf is pretty lame (especially default printing), but > > it's quick as demons chasing bats out of hell. > > But it works. It is my pdf viewer of choice at home. [snip] I'll check out what I can do for printing from it and maybe making it prettier. > You probably know this already, but gv doesn't work too well a lot of > times. Yeah, I kinda forget, but I assume it wasn't removed from my world for no reason at all. > Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from. We seem to be doing well so far! ~daid
