Re: Most popular packages currently missing on the lenny-test DVD
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:55:37PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Dienstag, 7. April 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>> We already discussed the PDF viewer situation earlier, see
>> <URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2008/02/msg00196.html > for
>> that thread.
>
>There were even bugs filed in the BTS (without edu usertags though) and
>some fixed in poppler, and afaik forms support in kpdf and evince is
>much better than it used to be. So I was really a bit shocked/sad when
>I read that KDE4 has a new pdf viewer without forms support...
Shocked based on rumors or on facts?
In the earlier thread I asked for actual test cases, but received none.
Since then there has been major updates on Poppler and (for printing)
ghostscript. I have recently become more involved in maintaining
ghostscript for Debian, and have a background in professional prepress
industry that perhaps might be helpful in understanding some of the
issues.
Okular is based on Poppler, so is not a start from scratch but an
extension to existing work.
I have now installed Okular (ugh: 178MB download, as I do not use KDE!),
and contrary to at least xpdf and evince, it seems to actually handle
forms to some extend. I have no idea if the form fill-out is usable for
anything - please someone provide me a concrete test scenario for form
fillout quality testing!
Any other PDF viewers relevant to test, in addition to the following?:
* Xpdf
* Evince
* epdfview
* Okular
* Acroread
* PDFCube
* Viewpdf.app
* KPDF
* Read (Sugar activity - not yet packaged)
Here's the issues I consider relevant to test for:
fpdf (a.k.a. PDF forms)
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I found this bugreport, containing 2 test files triggering different
problems regarding forms: http://bugs.kde.org/161327
Color profile handling
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A good start is this test: http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter
Heavy graphics
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José (or was it someone else?) mentioned in the earlier thread that
Acrobat was 3 times faster to browse graphics-heavy PDF files.
Any good tests for that? Any suggestions how to test that so as to
avoid the tests becoming too subjective?
Fonts
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Use of double-byte CJK fonts cause crashes and other surprises. I am in
possesion of a crash test from private correspondence related to a
ghostscript bug, but cannot publish that one, unfortunately.
I seldom (to say the least) use japanese fonts myself and need good
sample tests...
Other font-related problems? Sample tests?
Printing
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Someone mentioned problems with Acroread(!) using custom margins.
Test cases? Other issues?
Other problems
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Please speak up! What is known to not work in some PDF readers? Please
provide sample files!
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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