[vox-tech] default pdf viewer in gnome

[Kyle Ambroff]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:13 -0700, Carl Boettiger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use gnome with compiz, and I find that the evince document viewer
> uses a lot of my memory (>100MB!) and also doesn't display fonts
> clearly in some pdf articles.  For these and other reasons, I've
> started using kde4's okular, which works very well (also has nice new
> features).

This is a known issue with Evince, which has been fixed in trunk:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504913

When you upgrade to the next version of your distribution, Evince's
memory usage should be similar to oKular's.

Kyle
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