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I`ve just noticed that evince from Salix renders some PDF very badly:



The same file in evince under Ubuntu:



Could anybody give ma an advice how to change evince behaviour under Salix?

By the way: It looks that after fresh Salix install PDF files are handled by GIMP (not Evince) which is not very usefull, I guess. Maybe in future releases (fixed) evince will be default for PDF?

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.
I guess either the resize algorithms used by evince on Ubuntu are different or there's some sort of anti-aliasing at a higher (graphics) level.

Is it the same with epdfview? What about xpdf?

It can happen that some PDF are made with a font that is not include in the PDF itself and not well documented too, so, the PDF viewer have try to look for that font in the system, if it isn't installed, it have to use a different one.

That can happen with some proprietary fonts, like some MS fonts.

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gapan wrote:Is it the same with epdfview? What about xpdf?

I had the same difficult problem with some pdf files and epdfview, but it is more difficult that those documents looked fine with evince, although both evince and epdfview use poppler.

@gapan:
Didn`t test xpdf and epdfview but both okular and Adobe Acrobat looks fine.

@fredg:
This is not font issue, I guess as these documents are mainly graphics.

Anyway, this evince issue made me angry as one of the main usage of the computers I`ve just set up with Salix is to browse such PDFs. Luckily okular and acrobat saved the day. Gimp assigned as default viewer for PDF is also a bit irritating - again acrobat took over PDFs when it was installed so I wasn`t forced to define PDF browser for 20 users

witek wrote:Gimp assigned as default viewer for PDF is also a bit irritating.

huh?

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

gapan wrote:

witek wrote:Gimp assigned as default viewer for PDF is also a bit irritating.

huh?

I can confirm that
after a fresh install the default app to view pdfs is set to be the gimp
and that has happened in every salix install I've done

Shador wrote: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?