Bug 190857

Summary:	okular hangs (or i very slow) opening php chm docs
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	CHM backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	freeman3, wsierz, yousifjkadom
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Rex Dieter 2009-04-27 20:06:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Downloaded php chm doc from
http://us3.php.net/download-docs.php

attempting to open in okular... hangs. (I waited several minutes).

kchmviewer-4.0 opens this same item almost instantly.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2009-04-27 20:07:51 UTC

Ah, confirmation, just very slow, in the additional minutes composing this bug, it finally opened.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2009-04-27 20:11:36 UTC

I would venture it had something to do with generating the page thumbnails as this document is apparently a whopping 8668 pages long!

Maybe not a use-case worry too much about, unless you want a good chm example for performance profiling. :)

Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2009-04-27 20:14:59 UTC

Okular, due to its page-oriented nature, has to know the number of pages and the size of each beforehand. This means load each page, one by one.
kchmviewer is just a normal HTML viewer which shows the home page of a document when loading it.

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2012-08-18 17:22:03 UTC

*** Bug 220542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 postix 2020-02-24 13:49:23 UTC

*** Bug 377459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Will Sierzputowski 2024-11-21 19:46:43 UTC

.chm support as been dropped from new Okular releases. If it is added back in future releases, a new backend will be implemented rendering this bug outdated. Thank you for reporting.