Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 29, 2006 04:07 AM
I knew the author was wrong about gtk vs. cairo, but I didn't realize poppler had a switch for that. Excellent tip - thanks. Now epdfview is pretty much usable for me and my last motif app may go.
BTW, for those just joining us, the switch is '--disable-cairo-output' when compiling poppler.
I'm not sure, but I gather that if cairo is built with the glitz backend it'll get opengl acceleration via the xrender extension or some such. And there are a few other accelerated backends. But, yeah, if you don't have those and are unwittingly using cairo when you don't have to, it makes a huge difference.
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Re:Speed and Gtk
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 29, 2006 04:07 AMBTW, for those just joining us, the switch is '--disable-cairo-output' when compiling poppler.
I'm not sure, but I gather that if cairo is built with the glitz backend it'll get opengl acceleration via the xrender extension or some such. And there are a few other accelerated backends. But, yeah, if you don't have those and are unwittingly using cairo when you don't have to, it makes a huge difference.
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