Rendering failed (page x) on high resolution monitors

[sebastinas]

On GitLab by @nymann on May 28, 2022, 06:31

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When opening any pdf document on a screen with a resolution of 5120x1440 it results in a blank page (which I can then press the a or s shortcut and it will then display correctly)

$ zathura report.pdf
error: Rendering failed (page x)

When lowering my resolution to 3840x1080 and opening the same document it works out of the box.

Version

 $ zathura --version
zathura 0.4.9
girara 0.3.7 (runtime: 0.3.7)
(plugin) pdf-mupdf (0.3.8) (/usr/lib/zathura/libpdf-mupdf.so)

Config

~/.config/zathura/zathurarc

set selection-clipboard clipboard

You might say that having to press the a or s key is no big deal, and it's not for when I'm manually opening documents, but when auto compiling LaTeX using Vimtex it's super annoying since I have to constantly switch window focus and manually press the hotkey. 😅

With that being said, thank you for an otherwise awesome program 👍

[sebastinas]

On GitLab by @nymann on May 28, 2022, 06:40

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Could possibly be linked to #159

[sebastinas]

On GitLab by @nymann on May 28, 2022, 06:41

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On Reddit there seems to be someone experiencing the same issue as I have described: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/e4zk22/zathura_rendering_failed/

I switched to a 5120x1440 monitor just a few days ago, which is when I first started having these issues. Additionally, Zathura works just fine if I set my resolution to anything less than 5120x1440 (even 3840x1080, another 32:9 aspect ratio). I'm not sure why this is an issue, but I'll continue looking into it an keep this updated.

[sebastinas]

On GitLab by @ailrst on Aug 21, 2023, 03:03

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Apologies for coming back to an old issue,

I've come across this issue as well, it also appears on
low-resoultion monitors (720p) when zooming a long way into
a very large document (14800 x 220), but from debugging it appears
to be failing in zathura not the plugin, at this return:
https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura/-/blob/develop/zathura/render.c#L840.

Its creating a raster surface for the whole page multipled by the
screen pixel density, so my guess is its trying to create an image
larger than Cairo supports, or the available RAM or graphics memory.

zathura 0.5.2
girara 0.4.0 (runtime: 0.4.0)
(plugin) pdf-mupdf (0.4.0) (/usr/local/lib64/zathura/libpdf-mupdf.so)

[sebastinas]

This is a limitation of the way non-cairo-rendering plugins are handled.