Of course, any work to make poppler render faster would be more than welcome, and would benefit a lot of Linux users (poppler being used in Evince and Okular)
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:26 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> Ankush Mishra >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> evince-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list >> >> >
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