kpdf dev anyone?

[Sebastian Kuegler]

On Friday 14 March 2008 14:44:44 dario balozzi wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 14 March 2008 11:27:07 dario balozzi wrote:
> >  > i was a little misinformed about the kpdf->okular thing  ( i use an
> >  > old version of Pardus linux  that came with kpdf )
> >  >
> >  > i will try in okular mailing list or irc channel
> >
> >  Or maybe have a look at Okular first, it might address your issue (the
> > one you're not telling us :-)).
> >
> :-)))
>
> i open a 2293 page PDF [1] , do a search on the document and this
> operation results in a machine freeze  ( too much memory usage .. the
> hard disk keep running and running , i lose control of the GUI and
> have to reset ) ( AMD Athlon 2.2GHZ 512 MB RAM, 1GB swap, 30GB hd free
> space , Pardus Linux 2007.2 with KDE 3.5.7 )

It does work here with KPDF from 3.5.8, but this machine has 2.5 GB of RAM, 
searching for "body" takes about 20 seconds. You can setup KPDF's memory 
usage pattern in the config dialogue, not sure if it changes a lot though. 
Did you try other PDF readers, btw?

> may be this have to do with the "quality" of the searching
> implementation and algorithm that kpdf uses ... for this reason i
> thought that it would be useful to post my experience in the
> kde-quality at kde.org list
>
> don't get me wrong, KDE and kpdf rocks ... this is an "edge" case ( MS
> OOXML specification monster :-)

Hehehe, Urghs. The meaning of that huge document is probably not to have 
people read it, but to have people ignore it, but that's politics. :-)

-- 
sebas

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