HI,

as I understand, muPdf has fewer features than poppler. For instance, I
don't know if mupdf supports annotations. If you wish to have a Gtk+ Reader
based on muPdf, I think your best options are to develop one from scratch.
I doubt that such a backend would be accepted.


Greetings

José



On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Ankush Mishra <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I was wondering, about adding a MuPDF backend for Evince. Since, from what
> I notice, it's performance in rendering the PDF's is much faster as seen by:
>
>     http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/opening_large_
> pdf_files_mupdf_comes_rescue/
>
>     https://hzqtc.github.io/2012/04/poppler-vs-mupdf.html
>
> As, can be noted in SumatraPDF <http://sumatrapdfreader.org/>, which I
> have used fairly frequently on Windows, it works pretty well.
>
> I'm willing to help out or actually consider coding this from scratch,
> though, I have never touched the Evince codebase before, but am willing to
> try.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> Much Thanks
> Ankush Mishra
>
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