Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 05/12/2023 18:30, Tom Browder wrote:
> When I manually print via Evince It seems to sometimes change important 
> settings like page scaling and orientation.

I had an impression that GUI print dialog may remember some settings 
from its previous invocation. Unsure if it is relevant to evince.

I believed that CUPS stack is based on PDF while earlier PostScript was 
used. Filters used to get output specific to particular printers use 
poppler library. (I do not see direct dependency on poppler in evince 
despite I expected it). Poppler was forked from xpdf. Current upstream 
xpdf-4 version is a qt application while v3 in Debian has Xt GUI and 
some issues with non-latin scripts. Xpdf-3 is fast for text documents, 
but may be slow in the case of large JPEG images.

I have heard that some PDF viewers may generate another PDF file 
(simplified one?) when print is requested, however it may be a false 
statement.