Jeep & ivan,
I agree, hindsight is always 20/20 right? Look, I upgraded to 1.4.0 for several reasons, the big one was that printing in the older versions would fail in about 50-75% of the cases...literally, a single page would print then I'd get a postscript error on the 2nd page. Besides that, as poppler library was changing I thought it made more sense to keep things in sync with the other apps which were using it.
Anyways, given the hard-disk speed improvements I've found with my move to a SSD (Samsung Evo850, even though I'm still stuck on SATAII due to my old hardware) I am happy to report that QPDFView works quite fine here. No slower then openning up the native Lucide browser...who knows...maybe one day I'll actually move to the CUPS printing system too???