-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:55:37PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >Hi, > >On Dienstag, 7. April 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> We already discussed the PDF viewer situation earlier, see >> <URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2008/02/msg00196.html > for >> that thread. > >There were even bugs filed in the BTS (without edu usertags though) and >some fixed in poppler, and afaik forms support in kpdf and evince is >much better than it used to be. So I was really a bit shocked/sad when >I read that KDE4 has a new pdf viewer without forms support...
Shocked based on rumors or on facts? In the earlier thread I asked for actual test cases, but received none. Since then there has been major updates on Poppler and (for printing) ghostscript. I have recently become more involved in maintaining ghostscript for Debian, and have a background in professional prepress industry that perhaps might be helpful in understanding some of the issues. Okular is based on Poppler, so is not a start from scratch but an extension to existing work. I have now installed Okular (ugh: 178MB download, as I do not use KDE!), and contrary to at least xpdf and evince, it seems to actually handle forms to some extend. I have no idea if the form fill-out is usable for anything - please someone provide me a concrete test scenario for form fillout quality testing! Any other PDF viewers relevant to test, in addition to the following?: * Xpdf * Evince * epdfview * Okular * Acroread * PDFCube * Viewpdf.app * KPDF * Read (Sugar activity - not yet packaged) Here's the issues I consider relevant to test for: fpdf (a.k.a. PDF forms) - ----------------------- I found this bugreport, containing 2 test files triggering different problems regarding forms: http://bugs.kde.org/161327 Color profile handling - ---------------------- A good start is this test: http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter Heavy graphics - -------------- José (or was it someone else?) mentioned in the earlier thread that Acrobat was 3 times faster to browse graphics-heavy PDF files. Any good tests for that? Any suggestions how to test that so as to avoid the tests becoming too subjective? Fonts - ----- Use of double-byte CJK fonts cause crashes and other surprises. I am in possesion of a crash test from private correspondence related to a ghostscript bug, but cannot publish that one, unfortunately. I seldom (to say the least) use japanese fonts myself and need good sample tests... Other font-related problems? Sample tests? Printing - -------- Someone mentioned problems with Acroread(!) using custom margins. Test cases? Other issues? Other problems - -------------- Please speak up! What is known to not work in some PDF readers? Please provide sample files! Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknbpdIACgkQn7DbMsAkQLhZtACfSz8yrnD9ihOrjF/iew6GI9WA x60An1yXoPSkc52O+DDzQ5rK1u+kaPi9 =JIx3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
