Comment 13 for bug 1339308

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Siep Kroonenberg (siepo) wrote : Re: [Bug 1339308] Re: View with cropped margins

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:52:01PM -0000, Adam Reichold wrote:
> Am 21.08.2014 um 22:05 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 07:42:26PM -0000, Adam Reichold wrote:
> >> Hello again,
> >>
> >> Am 20.08.2014 um 11:02 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:25:58PM -0000, Adam Reichold wrote:
> >>>> Hello again,
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 18.08.2014 um 21:37 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
> >>>>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 05:28:38PM -0000, Adam Reichold
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello again,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Am 18.08.2014 um 11:56 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
> >>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 03:44:52PM -0000, Adam Reichold
> >>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>
> >>> ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-
> >>> products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_optiplex_desktop/optiplex-3010_Owner%27s
> >>>
> >>>
> %20Manual3_en-us.pdf
> >>
> >> Can you be specific on the view and graphics settings which
> >> trigger the continuous rendering? (scale mode, tiling, obsolete
> >> pixmaps, etc.) I tried but could not reproduce it...
> >
> > Continuous view. Screenshots of Behaviour-and Graphics settings
> > tabs:
> >
> > Screenshot of graphics settings at
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/3b36vs2e01bz9me/qpdfview_settings.tgz
> >
> > With the settings from the screenshot, page 14 gave trouble. I
> > have experimented with options 'Keep obsolete pixmaps', cache size
> > and widening and narrowing the document window. The upshot is
> > simply that different pages give trouble when I vary these.
>
> Hhhmmm, this bad. I used your graphics settings (and tried lower cache
> sizes and various view mode) and the worst I could get using revision
> 1660 was rendering the page twice using fit-to-width (which is
> expected since rendering once is need to trim the margins and the
> second time is to render fitted after trimmed).
>
> I am sorry that this is so much more tricky than anticipated. Can you
> describe what you see, is it rendering on and on or does is flicker
> twice? Have you tried rebuilding the branch from scratch? (Sorry, I am
> just out of ideas on how to reproduce this...) (I also tried Qt4
> versus Qt5 without a difference.)

As to what I saw:

The problem page is entirely blank, even without a wait symbol, and
the page separator oscillates up and down.

However,I just did a fresh checkout and build and now I cannot
reproduce the problem either with this document.

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Siep Kroonenberg