* Doc-view fonts @ 2010-11-17 17:31 Haines Brown [not found] ` <87eiajrfd2.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Haines Brown @ 2010-11-17 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english I upgraded to squeeze and thus emacs 23.2. Emacs 23 aquired the Doc-view mode for viewing PDF files. This works, but the antialiased fonts used to display the PDF are ugly (more accurately, the cover page for a PDF article is very clear, but the content pages following it are almost illegible). I suspect the reason is that I need to install gs fonts or something. What do I need to install or configure to make the Doc-view documents legible? The emacs (23) package does not recommend any such installation. [I apologize for how my name appears in the header "--> gnu.emacs.gnus". Apparently there's a name clash somewhere that I have not been able to pin down] Haines Brown ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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* Re: Doc-view fonts [not found] ` <87eiajrfd2.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> @ 2010-11-17 18:42 ` Haines Brown 2010-11-18 7:39 ` Eric S Fraga 2010-12-10 7:12 ` Tassilo Horn 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Haines Brown @ 2010-11-17 18:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:31:02 -0500, Haines wrote: > >> What do I need to install or configure to make the Doc-view documents >> legible? The emacs (23) package does not recommend any such >> installation. > > I think this isn't quite a Gnus question? I suspect it is a GNUS question in the sense that I can display the PDF article just fine with xpdf, but in emacs only the cover page is legible and all subsequent pages are only marginally legible. It seems either a different (non-aliased?) font is being used by emacs or it can't find the font it wants. That is, the issue seems to be emacs' access to fonts, not that I can't properly display PDF files on my system. >> [I apologize for how my name appears in the header "--> >> gnu.emacs.gnus". Apparently there's a name clash somewhere that I have >> not been able to pin down] > > It is a feature of Gnus - your own articles don't show your name but to > where they were sent instead when displayed in the Summary. It is a feature to hide my name in the summary? Everyone else has their name shown in the line presented in gnus summary indicating who the the message is from. > ,----[ C-h v gnus-ignored-from-addresses RET ] > | gnus-ignored-from-addresses is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'. > | Its value is > | "\\(asjo\\|adam\\)@\\(koldfront.dk\\|asjo.org\\)" > | Original value was > | "asjo@koldfront\\.dk" > | > | Documentation: > | *From headers that may be suppressed in favor of To headers. > | This can be a regexp or a list of regexps. > | > | You can customize this variable. > | > | This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in > | version 21.1 of Emacs. > `---- I'm afraid you've lost me on this. It seems to say that From headers are suppressed and in their place is the To header line. I the first, for anyone visiting the news group already knows to what group the messages are being sent, but not whom they are from. I want my real name and address just like all other messages in the summary. What code can I put in ~/.gnus to get that that? > When I read your article, your name was displayed just fine. > > :-), And now I'm completely confused. When I look at messges in gnus newsgroups, my message line appears like "--> gnu.emacs". You are saying that it does not appear that way for you? I want to see something like "haines@histomat.net <Haines Brown>" in the newsgroup summary lines. Are you saying that is what you see there? Haines ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Doc-view fonts 2010-11-17 18:42 ` Haines Brown @ 2010-11-18 7:39 ` Eric S Fraga 2010-12-10 7:12 ` Tassilo Horn 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Eric S Fraga @ 2010-11-18 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> writes: [...] >> ,----[ C-h v gnus-ignored-from-addresses RET ] >> | gnus-ignored-from-addresses is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'. >> | Its value is >> | "\\(asjo\\|adam\\)@\\(koldfront.dk\\|asjo.org\\)" >> | Original value was >> | "asjo@koldfront\\.dk" >> | >> | Documentation: >> | *From headers that may be suppressed in favor of To headers. >> | This can be a regexp or a list of regexps. >> | >> | You can customize this variable. >> | >> | This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in >> | version 21.1 of Emacs. >> `---- > > I'm afraid you've lost me on this. It seems to say that From headers are > suppressed and in their place is the To header line. I the first, for > anyone visiting the news group already knows to what group the messages > are being sent, but not whom they are from. I want my real name and > address just like all other messages in the summary. What code can I put > in ~/.gnus to get that that? Set the above variable to something which doesn't match your name... -- Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Doc-view fonts 2010-11-17 18:42 ` Haines Brown 2010-11-18 7:39 ` Eric S Fraga @ 2010-12-10 7:12 ` Tassilo Horn 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Tassilo Horn @ 2010-12-10 7:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> writes: Hi Haines, >>> What do I need to install or configure to make the Doc-view >>> documents legible? The emacs (23) package does not recommend any >>> such installation. >> >> I think this isn't quite a Gnus question? > > I suspect it is a GNUS question in the sense that I can display the > PDF article just fine with xpdf, but in emacs only the cover page is > legible and all subsequent pages are only marginally legible. Gnus is a mail and newsreader and has nothing to do with DocView, except that both programs run on the emacs platform. :-) Concerning your issue: DocView converts the PDF to PNG images, one for each page, and then displays these images. For the conversion, it uses the `gs' (GhostScript) tool. So if some fonts look bad, then it's a problem with GhostScript, not with emacs, Gnus, or DocView. Maybe the PDF contains embedded fonts that GhostScript cannot interpret correctly, and xpdf simply decides to fall back to some default font? In any case, if you found a solution, please let me know. Bye, Tassilo ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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