On Tuesday 23 December 2014 9:11:28 am you wrote: > I've been having a couple problems with kpdf. Both have been going on for > some time now; I don't remember exactly when they started, but it could've > been when I switched from 13.2 to R14 several months ago. This is on > Debian 7. > > 1. Occasionally it will refuse to render a single page of a multipage PDF > (or maybe a couple pages of a very long document), when other viewers > render all pages just fine. It's the same pages every time, and there's > nothing different about them that I can see -- just a random page in the > middle of a document. If I burst the PDF into individual files for each > page, it still refuses to render that same page. > > 2. It "forgets" a page as soon as it's no longer displayed, and has to > re-render it to display it again. It's as though Memory Usage is set to > Low instead of Normal or Aggressive, but the setting makes no difference. > This is very inconvenient in cases where it takes more than a fraction of a > second to render a page, which is the case with most of the PDFs I use. > > 3. One more that's not a new problem, just the way kpdf has always been: > It's extremely slow -- something like 3x slower than Adobe Reader, and at > least 50% slower than Evince. I'd have switched to one of those long ago, > but there are several features of kpdf that I really like. > > Is there any chance of getting these things fixed? Thanks. +1, no solution though other than use what works. I think kpdf could use some attemtion. Refer to bug #1, I added comments to that bug concerning an issue with kpdf. kpdf is good for quick views while browsing the web, for working with pdf's at work I view with 'mupdf', and evince to working around bug #1 for my printing pdf needs. Okular is nice but way more depends thasn evince..I could go on and on about pretty DE's taking precedence over applications :-) -- Peace, Greg