GNU bug report logs - #13887
24.3; doc-view will render blurry images when image-magick is available

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: E Sabof <esabof <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 03:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 13887 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: E Sabof <esabof <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13887 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13887: 24.3;
	doc-view will render blurry images when image-magick is available
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:05:59 +0100

E Sabof <esabof <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It tries to up-scale the available bitmap - leading to a loss of
> quality, instead of re-rendering the page from vector data.

You mean, it up-scales when you hit +?  That's a feature, because
up-scaling is much faster than reconverting.  To make use of the
feature, you should set `doc-view-resolution' to some reasonably high
value.  I use this

  (setq doc-view-resolution 200)

and it works very well.

Bye,
Tassilo
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