Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 00:45:31 +0400 Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 12:24:15PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 02:20:22 +0400 Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> > > On the other hand, xpdf opens all
> > > files without any problems, but can be a bit slower in scrolling
> > > sometimes. The last is not a problem. I am simply afraid that with
> > > your change xpdf will follow evince's path and there will be no
> > > reliable pdf viewer in the repository anymore.
> >
> > If you can pinpoint some example files that crash evince but work fine
> > in xpdf, I will test them. So far, I have not encountered any issues
> > myself. Gentoo has been shipping xpdf-poppler for a few years now, and I
> > haven't seen any complaints of your nature there (although I have not
> > done an exhaustive search).
>
> See, for example evince bug #584711:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584711
I've just tested this file. It does not crash my version of xpdf. In
fact, it doesn't crash evince or evince-gtk for me.
Mike
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