Question about developing a new XFCE app

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 09:15 -0400, Matt Connell wrote:
> I like atril personally

Hi,

depending on the task that the PDF viewer is supposed to perform, I
agree that Atril is good, sometimes I also find the lightweight and fast
MuPDF excellent. However, both are not suitable for viewing artistic
desktop publishing work, as they create artifacts, e.g. slanted smooth
frame lines quickly become lines that do have small saw tooth.

I made a screenshot of Atril and MuPDF. The name of the screenshot file
says it all,

ghostscript_ebook_150dpi_pdf_scaled_with_atril_and_mupdf.png [1],

on the left is Atril, on the right MuPDF.  Atril's quality is better,
but still poor. In addition to the question of quality, there is also
the question of expectations. Should you be able to use the viewer to
quickly fill out the PDF of an authority?

As a viewer for invoices and the like, Atril and MuPDF are excellent,
and with MuPDF there is no question of GTK vs Qt theme. But for
displaying ebooks, comics etc. I would use something else.

Regards,
Ralf

[1] https://i.imgur.com/1Dvj095.png