As the original submitter I can confirm that the memory problems are no longer apparent in Intrepid - evince 2.23.5, libpoppler 0.8.4 (cairo). Large page-scanned documents open and page fine, as far as I can see, without eating memory to any noticeable extent.
As the original submitter I can confirm that the memory problems are no longer apparent in Intrepid - evince 2.23.5, libpoppler 0.8.4 (cairo). Large page-scanned documents open and page fine, as far as I can see, without eating memory to any noticeable extent.
Thanks everyone for getting this fixed!