Re: Improving DocView quality for PDFs?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Hi, I like viewing PDFs inside Emacs using DocView, but the quality is
> noticeable lower than in Evince. It looks blocky, like it needs aliasing or
> something. Could I improve this with some setting changes?

It's not completely clear how to control this.  It's largely a result of
the PDF renderer used and I don't think the renderer used in Evince can
be used for DocView.  But you may want to try and install `mupdf-tools`
(variously also called Pdfdraw, Mudraw, or Mutool`) which is a different
PDF renderer than Ghostscript, which DocView can also use.

IIRC it's sometimes better, but not always.

And of course, someone else already mentioned `pdf-tools` (available
from a NonGNU ELPA archive near you).


        Stefan