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
>>
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