From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xiongtk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Better image quality for doc view? Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:03:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <878tyqxvl7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464703477 15839 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2016 14:04:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:04:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 16:04:28 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7kHS-0007Gr-ML for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:04:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7kHR-000621-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 10:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7kGq-000600-W6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 10:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7kGm-0008KK-RP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 10:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7kGm-0008KC-Ju for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 10:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7kGf-0006m5-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:03:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 2015xiongt4.via.ecp.fr ([138.195.144.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from xiongtk by 2015xiongt4.via.ecp.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:03:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2015xiongt4.via.ecp.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TSNRr2tunlgKXbt1sKmVZX/8pYU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:110146 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> Should I change the program that converts PDF files to PNG? >> >> Sounds like it, yes, > > Doc-view uses GhostScript which is basically installed anywhere but if > mupdf is installed on your system, too, it'll instead use that (no need > to tweak some option). I'm not sure if that gives better quality but > for sure it is way faster. > > You can see what it currently uses by checking the value of > `doc-view-pdf->png-converter-function'. > > Bye, > Tassilo I've just tried that. But before that I have started using pdf-tools. To me these two have little difference in quality. And each of them show me certain lack of fidelity with different files. Your solution is a bit better to me as the initiation time is faster.