Evince extremely slow to render this PDF file
Submitted by S.
Link to original bug (#752036)
Description
Hello,
Certain PDFs opened in Evince using the Poppler backend are extremely slow to render, to the point of being unusable. This is on a very fast Thinkpad laptop with a quad-core processor and an SSD. The same PDFs render instantly using a Windows PDF reader (http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer) (running under Wine!!).
This file is only about 2MB, but it takes many seconds to render each page: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/26/items/kindergartencatho11albe/kindergartencatho11albe.pdf
On the other hand, some long, complex PDFs with images render quickly with Poppler, like this one: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/paying-taxes/pdf/pwc-paying-taxes-2015-high-resolution.pdf
A Poppler developer claims that this particular bug is not Poppler's fault: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91249
I'm using Evince 3.14.2 on Ubuntu 15.04.
Thanks for looking into this.
Version: 3.14.x