On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 12:09:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 05/12/2023 18:30, Tom Browder wrote: > > When I manually print via Evince It seems to sometimes change important > > settings like page scaling and orientation. > > I had an impression that GUI print dialog may remember some settings from > its previous invocation. Unsure if it is relevant to evince. > > I believed that CUPS stack is based on PDF while earlier PostScript was > used. Filters used to get output specific to particular printers use poppler > library. (I do not see direct dependency on poppler in evince despite I > expected it). Poppler was forked from xpdf. Current upstream xpdf-4 version > is a qt application while v3 in Debian has Xt GUI and some issues with > non-latin scripts. Xpdf-3 is fast for text documents, but may be slow in the > case of large JPEG images.
I've used Xpdf from Arch, and it's an entirely different program. My understanding was that the Arch version depended on poppler. I can only imagine that the version in Debian is different because there is a licensing issue with the poppler code. Just a guess. -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
