Re: Non free software in dired-x.el

[Charles Sebold]

On 8 Teveth 5761, Dave Love wrote:

>>>>>> "CS" == Charles Sebold <csebold@ezl.com> writes:
> 
>  CS> Of course, Ghostscript and viewers that use gs are quite good
>  CS> these days, too, although not quite up to the level of the
>  CS> PDF-specific viewers.
> 
> Probably not a big deal, but in my experience it produces better
> results.  xpdf often produces bad-looking output for me (particularly
> poor letter-spacing), apparently due to synthesizing or substituting
> fonts poorly in some cases; I've never tried to figure out why.

I've had good luck with 0.92 (with all the other libraries they
recommend compiling with), but I'm sure it varies depending on the PDF's
you're looking at, sure.
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Charles Sebold
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9th of Teveth, 5761
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