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: Mon, 30 May 2016 14:48:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8737p062oq.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464612565 10357 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2016 12:49:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 12:49:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 30 14:49:18 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 1b7MdA-0007uP-Jz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 14:49:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59761 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7Md9-0004av-Ry for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 08:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7Mcf-0004Zz-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 08:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7Mcb-0000Va-A9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 08:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7Mcb-0000VV-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 08:48:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7McU-0007fX-Lm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 14:48:34 +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 ; Mon, 30 May 2016 14:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from xiongtk by 2015xiongt4.via.ecp.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 May 2016 14:48:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 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:M29kxd9X6h9WGaJSP2HM1VR5Rfg= 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:110138 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > On 2016-05-29, at 20:12, xiongtk wrote: > >> The default doc view is not comparable in terms of quality of display >> to other professional pdf viewers. But I want to at least see the words >> clearly when I fit the document to half of my screen while I work on the >> other half. I would like to ask for advises on how to improve the >> display quality. >> >> I've tried to change 'doc-view-resolution, but it only make the default >> image larger in size. The quality looks the same when re-sized. Should I >> change the program that converts PDF files to PNG? >> >> Thanks in advance! > > Have you tried pdf-tools? > https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools > > Hth, I've just installed it. The quality is better, but some files are not correctly converted(certain sentences are missing). I found that it does not officially support OS X.