Evince - poor quality

[Duncan_Idaho]

I've seen this too in the past. I could fix this by zooming in, so the graphic doesn't need to be resized anymore.

Can anybody confirm this?

for me it works sometimes, and for the ones it doesn't it's most likely because the image/graph was too small to begin

[gapan]

It looks that after fresh Salix 13.1.2 install PDF files are handled by GIMP.

I'll take a look but I don't think I've ever seen this with a fresh install.

[Akuna]

It looks that after fresh Salix 13.1.2 install PDF files are handled by GIMP.

I'll take a look but I don't think I've ever seen this with a fresh install.

I confirm that it is handled by GIMP on a fresh install.

[witek]

Similiar situation with Postscript files (.ps). They belong to GIMP, too - evince would be better choice here again.

[gapan]

OK, got it. I know how to fix this, but to fix this, new xfce iso releases are required and are not actually planned until 13.2.

To fix it for your user, just right click on a pdf/ps file, select properties and change the "Open with" application.

[gapan]

Oh, if you want to fix it for all users, you can create a /usr/share/applications/defaults.list file with the following in it:

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[Default Applications] 
application/pdf=evince.desktop
application/postscript=evince.desktop

that should work, unless it is overridden by user preferences.

[witek]

thanks gapan, this works. I also noticed another problem with files association but I will make another thread about it.