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kudos to you 2 developers!
by fast_rizwaan on Monday 20/Jun/2005, @15:03

KPDF is wonderful applications, but I am bothered by 2 things, error handling and rendering, which is slow.

Can poppler help in improving the KPDF performance?

KPDF needs to handle errors much like KGhostview, see this:

http://www.gurumaa.com/pdfs/soul_curry_apr05.zip

KPDF simply hangs when the sour_curry_apr05.pdf (inside the zip file) is opened. Though it's a sort of bug report, and it is not an error/bug on kpdf part but it would be nice for kpdf to handle errors without hanging.

if we open the same file with KGhostview, we get:
**** This file has a corrupted %%EOF marker, or garbage after the %%EOF.
**** The file was produced by Corel PDF Engine Version 11.633:
**** please notify the author of this software
**** that the file does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
**** specification. Processing of the file will continue normally.

and the file opens atleast with kghostview. Thank you for a wonderful and useful application!

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Re: kudos to you 2 developers!
by furanku on Monday 20/Jun/2005, @16:18

I know that you want better error handling in general, not just for this specific file, but here "soul_curry_apr05.pdf" is displayed by kpdf 0.4.1 whithout any problems and mucj quicker than by kghostview 0.20 using ghostscript 7.07.1.

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Re: kudos to you 2 developers!
by fast_rizwaan on Monday 20/Jun/2005, @22:48

i also have kpdf 0.4.1, but i can't see it loading. Do i need to install any other packages/libraries? i'm using slackware 10.1 with klax 10.1 packages.

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Re: kudos to you 2 developers!
by furanku on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @09:56

Hmmm... hard to say, if you don't see any error messages :( I'm using gentoo here. Maybe it's not the place to discuss support questions here, but I attach the library dependencies (ldd /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kpdf) of my kpdf installation as a file.

ldd.out
2KB (2188 bytes)

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