Hi there, I have just discovered that evince (and also xpdf) is much slower dealing with PDF 1.5 documents than it is with the same document in PDF 1.4.
Here you have the test (generated both with XeLaTeX): http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/Guidelines.pdf (PDF 1.4) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/Guidelines.pdf (PDF 1.5, much smaller) Evince and pdfinfo show a huge difference when opening both versions and acroread 9.3 and mupdf-r938 show almost an irrelevant one. Tests bellow (correct me if I'm wrong). Guidelines.pdf is the PDF 1.5 document and TEI_Guidelines.pdf is the PDF 1.4 document. I hope it helps, Pablo time evince TEI_Guidelines.pdf real 0m15.900s user 0m1.504s sys 0m0.192s time evince Guidelines.pdf real 0m29.384s user 0m26.510s sys 0m0.320s time pdfinfo TEI_Guidelines.pdf real 0m0.253s user 0m0.220s sys 0m0.024s time pdfinfo Guidelines.pdf real 0m16.328s user 0m15.433s sys 0m0.116s time acroread TEI_Guidelines.pdf real 0m5.828s user 0m3.220s sys 0m0.520s time acroread Guidelines.pdf real 0m6.297s user 0m4.132s sys 0m0.460s time mupdf TEI_Guidelines.pdf real 0m1.670s user 0m0.264s sys 0m0.028s time mupdf Guidelines.pdf real 0m2.106s user 0m0.384s sys 0m0.020s _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
