pdf viewer wont zoom in enough

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 00:11:04 UTC 2009


On 11/2/09, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 11/03/2009 01:42 AM, Andras Simon wrote:
>> On 11/2/09, David Timms<dtimms at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>>> Wondering if anyone is having trouble reading pdf files. Document
>>> Viewer. Using poppler 0.10.7 (cairo), opens the pdf OK, but even at the
>>> largest zoom (400%), the page is shown at less than the full height of
>>> the screen, making it real hard to read it.
>>>
>>> What's with that ?
>>
>> Can't the pdf file itself be the culprit?
> Possibly, I don't know enough about it.
>
>> Did you try other pdf-viewers?
> Yes, xpdf can zoom in appropriately to be able to read the pages.
>
> I was guessing that somehow a setting of dots per inch on my screen is
> out of kilter, or trouble with fonts, or ?
>
> Conversely, all existing pdfs that are on my machine have this problem
> (with Doc Viewer).

In this case, it's probably best to file a bug report on bugzilla.

Andras




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