[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] New version of Evince Package for Nokia 770

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On 12/14/05, Koen Kooi <koen at handhelds.org> wrote:
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> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> > On 12/12/05, Ralph Giles <giles at ghostscript.com> wrote:
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> >>On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:15:30AM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote:
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> >>>If it's not network printer which would do all the hard work
> >>>remotely, nor something like Bluetooth XML printing protocol,
> >>>one would need at least Ghostscript and its deps etc...
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> >>Ghostscript works fine on the device. :-)
> >
> >
> > Isn't GhostScript too heavy to this device? I mean, to be useful it
> > needs fonts, and its fonts are way too big (in bytes).
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> I run evince on several ipaqs with 32MB flash containing X + GPE +
> evince + ghostscript + gconf-dbus, so the 770 with 128MB shouldn't be a
> problem. Also remember that jffs2 zlib compresses all blocks transparently.

Ok... but I would like to save these extra bytes to something else,
since I can run ps2pdf and use evince with just the pdf backend.


> The biggest problem with evince on such devices is that it loads the
> *complete* pdf into memory, which makes it pretty useless for me
> (Feynman's lectures on physics are ~700MB). Gpdf gets it right but sucks
> for other reasons.

Sure.
But is this a libpoppler problem or just the way Evince uses it?

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