Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I tried searching the mailing list archives as well as google for this > but did not find any concrete answer. > > Here at work they have allowed me to use Linux ;) . Anyways, > I am using debian exclusively and try to use Free Software applications > wherever I can. Based on my research the fastest PDF viewer out there > is xpdf. Right now it is performing fast, but when viewing large PDF > files (generated from AUTOCAD drawings), panning/scrolling through the > document takes a long time. >
Sounds like a caching problem to me. Did you try kpdf? I think it caches the "read-ahead" pages before you start reading them. So if you are scrolling sequentially, it might help. If you are viewing pages in no particular order, then I do not think it will help much. I also do not know the performace difference between xpdf, kpdf. I have only used kpdf and it always seemed fast even with large files. But most of the files, I interacted with, are not graphics heavy as is the case for you. > In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat > reader performs a lot faster. I even found that acrobat reader on Linux (Debian etch) is slower than acrobat reader on M$. YMMV. > > After doing some research, I decided to try to compile the latest the > XPDF from source (3.02, the one I have is from etch repos @ ver 3.01). > Based on the new features/bug fixed list, there are a lot of changes > that help fix the performance issue described above. However, I can > never get it compiled in etch, the freetype libraries can never be > found. Did you look in backports to see if there is a backport already available? hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]