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From: Eric Brown <brown@fastmail.com>
To: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quality of PDF display in Doc-View
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:56:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m260eomklo.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9shjjf2.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (Robert Thorpe's message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2017 02:37:53 +0100")

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




      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-19 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]

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