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* Quality of PDF display in Doc-View
@ 2017-07-19  1:37 Robert Thorpe
  2017-07-19  3:11 ` Danny YUE
  2017-07-19 16:56 ` Eric Brown
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Robert Thorpe @ 2017-07-19  1:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Recently the quality of display of PDF in doc-view has gotten worse.  I
haven't changed Emacs, so it can't be a problem with Emacs.

I expect that something on the Ghostscript side has changed.  Has
anyone heard anything about a regression in Ghostscript?

BR,
Robert Thorpe




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* Re: Quality of PDF display in Doc-View
  2017-07-19  1:37 Quality of PDF display in Doc-View Robert Thorpe
@ 2017-07-19  3:11 ` Danny YUE
  2017-07-19  4:20   ` Marcin Borkowski
  2017-07-19 16:56 ` Eric Brown
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Danny YUE @ 2017-07-19  3:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs


On 2017-07-19 01:37, Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
> Recently the quality of display of PDF in doc-view has gotten worse.  I
> haven't changed Emacs, so it can't be a problem with Emacs.
>
> I expect that something on the Ghostscript side has changed.  Has
> anyone heard anything about a regression in Ghostscript?
>
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe

If you want to view PDF in Emacs, I strongly recommend pdf-tools.

It uses libpoppler to rander your PDF document and provides sufficient
functionality to view and manipulate PDF files, including zooming,
adding marks, annotations etc.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Install it from MELPA and start your unimaginative journey!

Hope that helps.

Danny



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* Re: Quality of PDF display in Doc-View
  2017-07-19  3:11 ` Danny YUE
@ 2017-07-19  4:20   ` Marcin Borkowski
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2017-07-19  4:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Danny YUE; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs


On 2017-07-19, at 05:11, Danny YUE <sheepduke@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2017-07-19 01:37, Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
>> Recently the quality of display of PDF in doc-view has gotten worse.  I
>> haven't changed Emacs, so it can't be a problem with Emacs.
>>
>> I expect that something on the Ghostscript side has changed.  Has
>> anyone heard anything about a regression in Ghostscript?
>>
>> BR,
>> Robert Thorpe
>
> If you want to view PDF in Emacs, I strongly recommend pdf-tools.

+1

> It uses libpoppler to rander your PDF document and provides sufficient
> functionality to view and manipulate PDF files, including zooming,
> adding marks, annotations etc.

Also, incremental search in pdfs.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski



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* Re: Quality of PDF display in Doc-View
  2017-07-19  1:37 Quality of PDF display in Doc-View Robert Thorpe
  2017-07-19  3:11 ` Danny YUE
@ 2017-07-19 16:56 ` Eric Brown
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric Brown @ 2017-07-19 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Thorpe; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:

> Recently the quality of display of PDF in doc-view has gotten worse.  I
> haven't changed Emacs, so it can't be a problem with Emacs.
>
> I expect that something on the Ghostscript side has changed.  Has
> anyone heard anything about a regression in Ghostscript?
>
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe


You may get better results by setting:

(setq doc-view-resolution 600)

in your initialization file and restarting emacs.

This increases the resolution of the rasterized version of the PDF, and
may help with reading e.g. math.

Best regards,
Eric




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