Sunday, November 11, 2012
Okular tiled rendering merged to master
Okular tiled rendering (more info) has been merged into master and is scheduled to be released with 4.10 KDE Applications release. There are a few open issues that Mailson and Fabio are working like crazy to get fixed for the upcoming Beta 1 release this thursday. It would be great if you can give it a try anyway and report any issue you might find.
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Marvellous job!
That page linked to (from the previous blog entry) is some of the best code documentation I've ever read. But it didn't tell me whether it's able to do multithreaded rendering. I assume so because I assume that was half the point - right?
We have been doing multithreaded rendering forever, so yes :-)
Dear Albert,
Thank you so much for this feature!
I would like to try it without installing Okular, in order not to break my current configuration.
So, I compile Okular with
md build
cd build
cmake ..
make
and try to run it with
cd shell
./okular
But I get this error: "Unable to find the Okular component."
Can you please help me with this?
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Go to the end of http://okular.kde.org/download.php
In short, you need to install it somewhere and you need to define KDEDIRS to that somewhere
Thanks for your answer.
It is unclear to me whether this can break or not my current installation.
So, I have to replace
/path/to/your/kde4/install/dir
with
/path/where/I/want/Okular
right?
Ok, it is working!
What I did was:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/peter/test/ ..
make
make install
cd /home/peter/test/bin
KDEDIRS=/home/peter/test:$(kde4-config --prefix) ./okular
Thank you for your excellent work!
The rendering speed is good on my 1.73 GHz Pentium M (2005) with a "normal" document, generated with LaTeX. It is very pleasant to use, especially with the zoom tool.
When using this zoom tool, it sometimes happen that another part of the document is displayed for a brief moment just before the requested part is displayed...
Also, it should be possible to zoom more than 1600%: it is still hard to read, for example in http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/img/mammalST_A4.pdf ; the rendering is much slower with this document (~2 seconds to see the tile appear), but still acceptable given the size of the document.
Thanks again for your work!
Peter, can you please open a bug about that "another part of the document is displayed for a brief moment"? If you could include a video that'd be amazing to try to understand what's going on.
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