#Debian13 Will Aim To Include #GNOME48, #Debian/#Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers
"After discussion with the rest of the #Debian #GNOME team, we decided to target GNOME 48 for Debian 13 “Trixie”. Our goal is to get GNOME 48 RC in before Debian’s Transition Freeze and 48.1 in before Debian’s Hard Freeze."
#GNOMEPapers will be available in Ubuntu 25.04 while it sounds like Ubuntu 25.10 is where it could potentially end up replacing #Evince as the default document viewer.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Plans-GNOME-48

I replaced my document readers #Evince and #Okular with Papers

https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Papers

Papers is planned to replace Evince as the default document viewer on #Gnome

It is a fork of Evince with about a third of the code migrated to #RustLang

New hardcore #PDF rendering performance benchmark for #Poppler:
"Jesus Christ it's a #Lyon (map), get in the car!"

That map takes 26 seconds to render with Poppler on #Linux, but only 6 seconds with PDFjs, or 15 seconds with XPDF: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1555

I've profiled the issue on the various Poppler rendering backends, and there are some hypotheses about the slowness. If anyone can help fix this, that would be fantastic.

Why does #evince, #Inkscape and #GIMP take 10-15 seconds longer to open a PDF from this CIFS/Samba mount compared to from a local disk, but Firefox's internal PDF.js and #LibreOffice Draw opens it immediately?

Wait so what's a good #DocumentViewer for #Mobian that can open .doc files? #Evince doesn't seem to be able to open those

(I only need a viewer to take a look from a distance; I'm not planning to touch it or *shudder* dig my hands in and edit it)

I've always envied Adobe Reader/Acrobat users and tablet apps users who have forever been able to freely write on PDFs as if they are physical sheets of papers. Yes, you can use #Xournal++, but I want it as a streamlined UX built into my day-to-day #GNOME PDF reader app.

Although it was not implemented in #Evince, the #Poppler library has some support for ink-like handwritten #PDF annotations.

I have now put together usecases & broad ideas into this #GNOMEPapers ticket: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/236

Apparently I can create a 10 meter long PDF on my #reMarkable tablet. #GNOME #evince PDF viewer is not happy about it, though, at least the version in #Debian 12: takes a very long time to open. #xpdf is instant, though.

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. It is used by some popular open-source applications like Evince, Inkscape, LibreOffice 4.x, Okular and Scribus. If you view PDFs or export your SVG projects to PDF format, there is a high chance that your open-source application is using Poppler.

The latest stable release is poppler-24.06.1.tar.xz and was released on June 12, 2024.

https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

#emmabuntus #evince #pdf
@Emmabuntus remet ça
Un nouvel outil a droit au mode accessibilité
Après la calculatrice parlante, le lecteur PDF Evince bénéficie maintenant aussi de la parole
https://youtu.be/y0Ei3wFI7aM

Petit post d'appréciation pour la qualité du lecteur PDF de #Zotero. La seule chose qu'il lui manque (je trouve) c'est la prévisualisation des liens quand on passe la souris dessus comme dans #evince.