[poppler] poppler vs foxit

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sat Dec 18 05:17:29 PST 2010


A Dissabte, 18 de desembre de 2010, dE . va escriure:
> Hi.
> 
> I've seen that this 'foxit reader' application has been discussed quiet a
> lot in this mailing list, so I hope the poppler team has laid it's hands on
> it.
> 
> Foxit reader appears to be the fastest PDF reader in the industry, it seems
> to be faster by many times than any other application available. The
> scenario is such that at least I have to use Foxit simply cause it's a
> necessity since applications which run on poppler take minutes to render
> the same PDF what foxit does in a few seconds.
> 
> So I was wondering if the poppler team is aware of this, although foxit is
> avilable for Linux, but it'll be great if you could revile of secrets of
> foxit.
> 
> You could also use opencl to optimize stuff.

Patches to make stuff faster are always welcome.

Albert


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