Germán Póo-Caamaño <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 19:44 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Germán Póo-Caamaño <[email protected]> writes:
>> > If you want to check rendering, then it is pointless to use Evince >> > for that. Evince is just a shell and you might get different >> > results depending of the version of poppler you have installed. >> > >> > Instead, you should use pdftocairo, which has the options you are >> > looking for. >> >> Evince and Frescobaldi (a LilyPond shell) both use the same version >> of libpoppler for their screen rendering on my system, with >> strikingly different appearance and quality in output. > > Poppler has different backends to paint. Glib-based applications use > cairo whereas Qt4-based applications use Arthur. > > In other words, pdftocairo and libpoppler-glib (the one used by > Evince) are linked against to libpoppler-cairo. libpoppler-qt4 is > linked against libpoppler-arthur. That would be relevant, yes. Frescobaldi uses libpoppler-qt4. So using pdftocairo as a tool for predicting Evince quality could probably be made to work. Thanks -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
