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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:04:10
Message-Id: 20090101110350.462f55a8@krikkit
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents. by Philip Webb
1 On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:41:11 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > > Worked OK here with kpdf-3.5.10, but I didn't try every page.
4 > > Can you confirm which page causes the crash?
5 >
6 > See the rest of the thread ! -- try page 10 ...
7
8 I think I did, I've scrolled as far as page 52 now with no problems.
9
10 > > Why are you downloading from a site like this
11 > > when the first result from a Google search
12 > > for "motorola razr v3i user manual" is to a PDF on motorola.com?
13 >
14 > That seems to render ok upto c page 32 .
15
16 Got to page 50 on this one too, still no problems. Could it be version
17 or USE flag dependent?
18
19 % emerge -pv kpdf
20
21 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
22
23 Calculating dependencies... done!
24 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kpdf-3.5.10 USE="-debug" 0 kB
25
26 OK, that rules out USE flags, but it may be worth trying it
27 with debug enabled.
28
29 > However, it doesn't alter the fact that there is a bug in Kpdf,
30 > which should never crash whatever file it's given: at least,
31 > there sb an appropriate error message with 'ok' to close cleanly.
32
33 Agreed.
34
35
36 --
37 Neil Bothwick
38
39 Any program which runs right is obsolete.

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