Both Evince and qpdfview (the previous default PDF reader) get the first page of a PDF up in less that half a second however big the PDF is. LibreOffice draw takes 2 or 3 seconds for even a small PDF. The one I happened to open to read the Evince 'About' window was 10Mb of raster pages and took over 30 seconds in Draw. Horses for courses - things quick and simple have their place.LibreOffice Draw can also open PDF files on a standard Desktop install
And I am (now) using the Pi tweaked version of LibreOffice, not the one you get from apt install libreoffice
Statistics: Posted by PDM1950 — Sun Jan 04, 2026 8:55 pm