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| DevHC | i'm comparing Poppler and MuPdf (in Zathura) | 00:11.03 |
| | i can't measure a noticable performance difference (although Poppler seems a bit faster) | 00:11.29 |
| | the one and only reason i like the Poppler backend better is because the fonts seem to be rendered with increased boldness | 00:12.12 |
| | ie., text is actually black, not grey, as is apparently the case with MuPDF | 00:12.40 |
| | on top of that, there's surely a BUG in MuPDF when it comes to drawing horizontal lines (eg., \bar{X}) | 00:13.36 |
| malc_ | DevHC: can you point at the pdf where "blackness" is an issue? | 00:14.29 |
| DevHC | "greyness" | 00:15.03 |
| | is the issue, "blackness" is what i want | 00:15.12 |
| | this occurs in all PDFs | 00:15.21 |
| | at ultra-high resolutions, one can't see much of a difference, because characters will then have multi-pixel-width lines | 00:16.11 |
| | but in case of intermediate resolutions, MuPDF is obviously drawing thinner lines than Poppler | 00:16.37 |
| | furthermore, when a page is viewed from a distance (very low resolution), the whole picture appears lighter in case of MuPDF | 00:17.15 |
| | i don't know which one is "more correct" based on any specification, but i prefer the case where text appears black (sufficiently thick), not grey | 00:18.05 |
| | for the sake of example, i'm looking at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0375v3 (but really, *ANY* text/math PDF file can be used) | 00:18.47 |
| | and now, for the BUG: | 00:18.54 |
| | see the PDF at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0375v3 | 00:19.09 |
| | on page 2, there's a bar over an E | 00:19.44 |
| | display the page from a distance with MuPDF (zoom out) | 00:19.58 |
| | the result is that the bar remains ultra thick in comparison to other characters | 00:20.26 |
| malc_ | it does indeed | 00:22.33 |
| DevHC | this has been annoying me in all mathematical papers | 00:23.15 |
| malc_ | DevHC: fill a bug report | 00:23.38 |
| DevHC | u do that | 00:23.45 |
| malc_ | erm. why? i have nothing to do with mupdf other than using it in my own application | 00:24.06 |
| DevHC | MAY I ASK A DEVELOPER (WHOSE JOB IS TO WORK ON MUPDF) TO FILE A BUG REPORT? | 00:24.47 |
| | MuPDF: http://postimg.org/image/c81ri6jsr/ ; Poppler: http://postimg.org/image/hpiyi64k9/341a9f46/ | 00:42.38 |
| | noticable differences: MuPDF line thickness is bugged, MuPDF is lighter in color, MuPDF has a slightly larger page size, MuPDF uses a different font to render the rotated text on the "top-left", MuPDF doesn't support links (or something like that) | 00:46.23 |
| toothrot | DevHC, why can't you file it ? | 01:52.35 |
| DevHC | CBA | 01:54.30 |
| toothrot | don't be surprised if nobody else can be either | 02:01.59 |
| DevHC | life sux | 02:09.20 |
| | for the MuPDF users, that is, which means: not for me, anymore ! | 02:09.37 |
| Robin_Watts | DevHC: (For the logs) That's almost certainly a filled clippath. | 10:01.23 |
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