Bug 4222 - some PDF files display very slow
Summary: some PDF files display very slow
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high normal
Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
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Reported: 2005-08-24 10:27 UTC by Antoine
Modified: 2010-01-27 15:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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slow PDF file (358.29 KB, application/pdf)
2005-08-24 10:32 UTC, Antoine
Details

Description Antoine 2005-08-24 10:27:55 UTC
= Transfering this bug from GNOME Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313815 =

Displaying the following PDF file is very slow (takes at least 10 seconds just
for the first page). xpdf and gpdf are very fast on the same document.

$ rpm -qv evince
evince-0.3.4-1mdk
$ rpm -qv libpoppler0
libpoppler0-0.4.0-1mdk
$ rpm -qv libcairo2
libcairo2-0.9.2-4mdk

I also have a non-public PDF document that displays the same problem. Do I need
to put it on a FTP and give the URL to someone in private?
Comment 1 Antoine 2005-08-24 10:32:03 UTC
Created attachment 3019 [details]
slow PDF file
Comment 2 Lukasz Halman 2005-09-18 14:57:01 UTC
Yet another really slow rendering file:
http://www.portalplayer.com/products/documents/5020_Brief_0108_Public.pdf

It takes well over a minute to render those 4 pages on my Athlon 2500+ with
evince 0.4./poppler0.4.2
Comment 3 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2005-10-30 17:36:18 UTC
Another document that render slowly from Gnome (Evince) Bugzilla

Document
http://onderwijs.cs.utwente.nl/pdf_documenten/rooster_INF_B1.pdf
Associated gnome bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316187
Comment 4 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2005-10-30 18:41:57 UTC
Note : previous document was bugging in version 0.4.2 (cairo).
Here is another one
http://albin.abo.fi/~ninylund/dump/kasiohjelma270905.pdf

Gnombe bug :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317032
Comment 5 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2005-11-05 16:40:47 UTC
Another one on 0.4.2 (cairo):
http://cr.yp.to/papers/m3.pdf

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320733
Comment 6 Antoine 2007-01-21 04:59:45 UTC
Bug still valid with following versions.

$ rpm -qv evince
evince-0.7.1-2mdv2007.1
$ rpm -qv libpoppler1
libpoppler1-0.5.4-2mdv2007.1
$ rpm -qv libcairo2
libcairo2-1.3.10-1mdv2007.1
Comment 7 Brad Hards 2007-12-11 18:04:43 UTC
Can you test with poppler 0.6.2 (or head)? Ideally test using both the cairo backend and the splash backend, if you can.

Comment 8 Antoine 2007-12-13 11:33:03 UTC
Ok, here are the software versions currently on my computer:

$ rpm -qv libpoppler2
libpoppler2-0.6.2-2mdv2008.1
$ rpm -qv libcairo2
libcairo2-1.4.12-1mdv2008.1

The file still displays quite slowly, rendering each page seems to takes 100% CPU during 2 or 3 seconds (on an Athlon X2 3600+). With xpdf rendering is instantaneous.

Here evince uses the cairo backend. How do I try with another backend (without recompiling)?
Comment 9 Laurent Bigonville 2009-10-28 13:19:52 UTC
Same issue with this complex pdf

http://www.stib.be/irj/go/km/docs/STIB-MIVB/INTERNET/attachments/Plan_reseau/20080211_plan.pdf

Takes upto 2 minutes to render on jaunty (with evince)
Comment 10 Carlos Garcia Campos 2010-01-27 08:13:30 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Same issue with this complex pdf
> 
> http://www.stib.be/irj/go/km/docs/STIB-MIVB/INTERNET/attachments/Plan_reseau/20080211_plan.pdf
> 
> Takes upto 2 minutes to render on jaunty (with evince)
> 

It takes around 4 seconds with current cario backend. The other documents mentioned (that still work) render quite fast now. 
Comment 11 Albert Astals Cid 2010-01-27 15:13:45 UTC
File from comment #1 works fine in splash too
File from comment #3 is a dupe of bug 13518
File from comment #5 works fine in splash too
File from comment #9 is reasonably fast for me in splash too
Other URLs don't work, so i'm closing the bug as some files are fixed and others are duplicates of known bugs


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