Version: 0.6.3 (using KDE 3.5.9) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages I have a particular PDF file that Okular 0.6.3 will only display the first page of. KGhostView, Adobe Reader, and XPDF all read the file just fine.
Okular shows only the first page of this document: http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/steam_tables.pdf I do not know what program was used to create this file. It was downloaded from my university's website.
Cannot reproduce here (Poppler devel, future 0.10). What version of poppler-qt4 is used for Okular in your case?
Should I assume 2.0.0 from this output? hardy2@hardy2-laptop:~$ which poppler-qt4 hardy2@hardy2-laptop:~$ locate poppler /usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.2 /usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libpoppler-qt.so.2 /usr/lib/libpoppler-qt.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.2 /usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.2 /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.2.0.0 ..snip.. In /usr/share/doc/libpoppler-qt4-2/README there is no mention of which version is installed. Note that KPDF acts as Okular does: it reads the first page and nothing else.
Something's wrong on your computer, from the shell i assume you are using Ubuntu hardy. I have an installation here and the kpdf from it can read the pdf file wihtout problems, are you sure you did not disable continuous view? Can you attach a screenshot showing the problem in both okular and kpdf?
While preparing the screenshot I noticed that after about half a minute the pages started appearing in Okular. After letting the machine sit with both Okular and KPDF open, the pages started appearing one by one, with delays of 20-30 seconds. This computer has a dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, and is very responsive otherwise. Both Okular and KPDF are configured for aggressive memory usage (Keep everything in memory, Preload next pages, Boost searches). I do not experience the delay in rendering on this file with other (XPDF, Adobe Reader) PDF readers, and I do not experience this delay using Okular or KPDF to read other PDF files, even from the same source.
Just a guess: can you please try with Evince?
Evince also renders this document very slowly, like Okular and KPDF.
It would be nice if you could then checkout Poppler 0.8.x, and try the Qt4 demo application in it (do -not- install it over the system one!).
I have KDE 4.1 beta 2 on another partition. Would that be Poppler 0.8? If so then I'll reboot and try it there. I don't want to mess with installing experimental software on my daily driver.
> I have KDE 4.1 beta 2 on another partition. Would that be Poppler 0.8? Poppler is a 3rd party library, see http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Created attachment 25938 [details] Screenshot of Okular with pages unloaded I tried to build the latest poppler on my KDE 4.1 beta 2 partition, but there are problems with the configure script and I don't know how to resolve them (Unexpected end of file). I did try to open the Steam Tables pdf on the Okular that comes with KDE 4.1 beta 2 and got the same results as with KPDF, Okular, and Evince on KDE3: extremely slow page loading. The enclosed screenshot was taken after Okular had been open for 60 seconds.
Given that you can reproduce the slow rendering also with Evince and KPDF, then the problem should be in the Poppler library (not for KPDF, but the codebase is similar). The suggestion is to update to a more recent Poppler version (eg 0.8.x), and see whether the problem is still there. In case, please report the problem to the Poppler bug tracking system: https://bugs.freedesktop.org. Closing this bug as INVALID as it is not a problem on the Okular side. Thanks for understanding.
Naturally, Pino, thanks! I had considered closing the bug as INVALID myself when I realized that non-KDE apps suffer from the same phenomenon. I had trouble building the 0.8.x branch of Poppler on my last KDE4 build, but if I manage to reproduce the problem on a current version of Poppler then I will file it there. Thanks.