From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quality of PDF display in Doc-View Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:20:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87vampys5a.fsf@jane> References: <87o9shjjf2.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87tw2986jh.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500438098 10912 195.159.176.226 (19 Jul 2017 04:21:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 04:21:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Danny YUE Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 06:21:32 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dXgUJ-00027a-7u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:21:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59755 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXgUL-0000MY-Mm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:21:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34973) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXgTi-0000L6-GO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXgTe-0001JJ-Fr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:53345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXgTe-00018W-9e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CCCE6767; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:20:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sVIBfH5S1oyN; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:20:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A6EEE66A4; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:20:28 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87tw2986jh.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113786 Archived-At: On 2017-07-19, at 05:11, Danny YUE wrote: > On 2017-07-19 01:37, Robert Thorpe 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