Created attachment 130175 [details] The attached file takes many seconds to render each page with Poppler. Hello, Certain PDFs opened in Evince or Atril or Okular using the Poppler backend are extremely slow to render, to the point of being unusable. This is on a very fast Thinkpad laptop with a quad-core processor and an SSD. The same PDFs render instantly using a Windows PDF reader running under Wine. The attached file takes many seconds to render each page with Poppler. Thanks for looking into this.
Either you have a problem with your laptop or your are using an old poppler version or you overstate exorbitant: time ./utils/pdftoppm -png -cropbox Catalogue_ARMYTEK_2017.pdf output/100168-splash real 1m32.744s user 1m30.856s sys 0m0.208s time ./utils/pdftocairo -png -cropbox Catalogue_ARMYTEK_2017.pdf output/100168-cairo real 2m10.656s user 2m9.532s sys 0m0.212s which means that splash (used by okular) needs ~2 s to render each page and cairo ~3 s (used by evince) with the actual version on a 4 years old laptop without ssd. This doesn't fit neither to "many seconds each page" nor to "being unusable"! And it opens quite well either with evince or with okular on my laptop.
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