Bug 198151 - Okular/PDF does display large PDF files very slowly
Summary: Okular/PDF does display large PDF files very slowly
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2009-06-28 12:41 UTC by Martin Bretschneider
Modified: 2010-03-15 11:41 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Public transport map (680.40 KB, application/download)
2009-06-28 12:42 UTC, Martin Bretschneider
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Description Martin Bretschneider 2009-06-28 12:41:07 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Hi,

Okular displays large or complex PDF files quite slow on my computer (AMD64 X2 4200+, 2 GB RAM, Geforce 6600 GT with nvidia drivers). For a complex file see the file "uestra.de_Hannover_2009.pdf" that is a map of public transport that seems to have a lot of vector data. Okular does display it very slowly. Adobe Reader 9.1 display is faster.

Another example is a PDF file is an advertising with a lot of bitmap data: "mediamarkt.de_prospekt.pdf". Here Adobe Reader 9.1 is slower but even still faster than Okular.

What do you think? Can Okular display is faster? Maybe using another CPU core using multithreading?

TIA  Martin
Comment 1 Martin Bretschneider 2009-06-28 12:42:10 UTC
Created attachment 34885 [details]
Public transport map
Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2009-06-28 12:57:55 UTC
Hi,

Okular does not load and render PDF documents by itself, bu uses an external library called Poppler.
If you think rendering time is slow, please report the problem to the Poppler's bug tracking system: https://bugs.freedesktop.org, "poppler" product.
Okular cannot do anything on its side to influence Poppler's rendering speed.
Comment 4 Tristan Miller 2010-03-15 11:41:35 UTC
Possibly one or more of the following poppler bug reports are relevant:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26759
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13487
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13518