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by 3rd3 4567 days ago
I wished they would improve the PDF viewer.
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I find that it

1. is really slow, especially for long documents or ones containing large images (so, e.g., for lengthy scanned documents it's frequently just unusable);

2. renders less nicely, scanned text again being particularly awful;

3. on at least one machine I have, prints documents very badly (text comes out all fuzzy, as if the anti-aliasing is messed up somehow);

4. it has no facing-pages view.

I keep using it because (a) it's the default and I'm lazy and (b) in principle I like the idea of supporting a completely free PDF viewer. But compared even with Adobe Reader (still more something like Sumatra or Foxit) the experience is grossly inferior far too often.

How would you like it improved? I rather like it as it is--I've completely stopped using Adobe Reader, in fact--but I'm curious to know what you think is missing.
It never renders anything as well as external viewers for me. Often missing things, more aliasing, etc
Speed mainly: it's unbearable on my machines. But maybe I'm a niche market: cheapskates with 5 year old laptops.
I have a brand new beefy machine with lots of cores a big GPU and plenty of RAM, it is also dog slow on PDF documents of any appreciable length.

Then again I tend to load multi-hundred page PDFs.