[kubuntu-devel] Re: Seed comments

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:56PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Mario Fux">
> 
> > > > Probably safer, yeah. ;-)
> > >
> > > And KGhostView as well? I'm not really sure where the differences
> > > between the three are and which uses what engine to render PDFs, so
> > > having three might well be redundant.
> > 
> > kpdf in KDE 3.4 uses xpdf 3.0 as the rendering engine. That's why I think
> > we/you don't need xpdf 3.0 beneath kpdf.
> 
> Mmm, gpdf uses xpdf 3 code too, but has a different rendering path that
> causes some (mostly font related) problems. Might want to double-check that
> kpdf doesn't have problems like this.

In KDE 3.3 kpdf has a lot of problems (no idea if they're the same
ones as gpdf or not).  In KDE 3.4 it's excellent.  Since the target is
for KDE 3.4 sooner rather than later I think keeping kpdf and
scrapping xpdf is the way to go.

Jonathan Riddell