Evince / Poppler Experiences

[zi99y]

Found some old ipks for evince poppler and freetype in this thread: https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...hl=evince&st=30

seem to work very well, if slow, and with this older poppler the version of epdfview (mentioned below) works fine

[Meanie]

First impressions of epdfview are very good, I had a doc open that was very readable set at page width zoom. Since then I've tried to open a couple of larger pdfs and it segfaults before I actually see any text. I have a large swapfile so it shouldnt be low memory causing the crash...

Will try again later, thanks for the packages
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most of the poppler/xpdf libraries have /tmp hardcoded so swap is ignored ;(

[daniel3000]

First impressions of epdfview are very good, I had a doc open that was very readable set at page width zoom. Since then I've tried to open a couple of larger pdfs and it segfaults before I actually see any text. I have a large swapfile so it shouldnt be low memory causing the crash...

Will try again later, thanks for the packages
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most of the poppler/xpdf libraries have /tmp hardcoded so swap is ignored ;(
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aha, that means, if we link /tmp to a place with much space, these crashes shouldn't happen anymore?

Will try.

daniel

[daniel3000]

Did some tests:

I have uninstalled the old freetype 2.1.9 and installed the newer freetype package 2.1.10 from here.

Now the new epdfview / poppler combo from the hermocom feed seems to better! At least it doesn't segfault anymore on large documents.

However, the page index / table of contents navigation does not seem to work. The chapters are listed, but all with page #0, and clicking on them does nothing.
Navigating using page number entry seems to work.
Also, sometimes pages appear empty.

BTW: During working with a large document, I observed the contents of /tmp.
I could not find anything created by epdfview or poppler there.

daniel

[daniel3000]

just saw on the console:

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some font thing failed
Error: could not create type1 face
some font thing failed
Error: could not create truetype face
repeating.
So somehow there still seems to be a freetype problem.
But what exactly?
Any idea?


daniel

[daniel3000]

problem solved it seems:
THIS was due to a full /tmp directory. :-)
I have filled my /tmp (/dev/shm/tmp; 12MB) with junk to simulate a full /tmp and see if epdfview really suffers from it.
It does! Meanie is right.

Depleting /tmp now makes epdfview work well. No font problems anymore.

However, the index still does not work.

daniel

[zi99y]

Excellent! So is it much improved from using the latest poppler package? I'm hoping it will be a bit faster as the older one is pig slow, but does work.

Maybe someone could make an amendment on the hermocom ipk post in the new packages thread for others.

[daniel3000]

Excellent! So is it much improved from using the latest poppler package? I'm hoping it will be a bit faster as the older one is pig slow, but does work.

Maybe someone could make an amendment on the hermocom ipk post in the new packages thread for others.
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done.

I don't know about improvements of new poppler / epdf above the older versions.

daniel

[daniel3000]

If you install the new freetype package 2.1.10, be sure to run these commands afterwards:

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strip /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.8
strip /usr/lib/libfreetype.a
This reduces the size of the two files from together 3MB to 600kB!

You may need a developer image mounted for this to work. I don' tknow if strip is part of the standard installation of pdaXrom.

(I wondered why that new freetype is so much larger than the old one - the packager seems to have forgotten stripping the libs).

daniel

[svs57]

I tried epdfview. It crash while opening pdf file. size of pdf ~ 177K

[daniel3000]

I tried epdfview. It crash while opening pdf file. size of pdf ~ 177K
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Which version of freetype is installed on your system?
Which versions of epdfview and poppler did you try?

Any output on the console which could help?

daniel

[tanjian2]

I tried epdfview. It crash while opening pdf file. size of pdf ~ 177K
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Which version of freetype is installed on your system?
Which versions of epdfview and poppler did you try?

Any output on the console which could help?

daniel
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I have just tried epdfview (epdfview_0.1.2_arm5tel.ipk/poppler_0.5.1_arm5tel.ipk) with a 6.9Mb pdf and it works fine - freetype-2.1.9 I think.

tanjian

[svs57]

I tried epdfview. It crash while opening pdf file. size of pdf ~ 177K
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Which version of freetype is installed on your system?
Which versions of epdfview and poppler did you try?

Any output on the console which could help?

daniel
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[a href=\"http://www.hermocom.com/feeds/pdaxrom1.1.0beta3/epdfview_0.1.5-hmc-1_armv5tel.ipk]http://www.hermocom.com/feeds/pdaxrom1.1.0...-1_armv5tel.ipk[/url]
http://www.hermocom.com/feeds/pdaxrom1.1.0...-1_armv5tel.ipk
http://www.karma-lab.net/zaurus/experiment....5_armv5tel.ipk
freetype 2.1.10 forget from which site

$epdfview file.pdf
killed
$
I tried set swap and change /tmp to sd
Nothing help
xpdf open this pdf file on zaurus
I use pdaXrom r121
Thanks

[daniel3000]

r121 - so this could be the reason?
The IPKs are compiled for beta3. At least the hermocom ones. karma-lab too?

daniel