Thanks for the feedback. From what I see on the provided, screenshots, this is an expected behavior. Using a fixed resampling ratio, corresponding to a quite poor resolution was at that time a remedy for minimizing the consequences of a memory leak in python-poppler. As it has been more than two years since, I suppose most linux systems should now include a fixed version of python-poppler, so that this restriction can be removed in the next version of pdfshuffler. However I am not sure when this next version will be ready for release.
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could you upload the pdf file you are trying to view and a screenshot of the blury representation?
I have the problem with every pdf!
I looked into the code and deleted these two lines in PDF_Renderer.run
<pre>
if self.resample != 1.:
cr.scale(1./self.resample, 1./self.resample)
</pre>
Now I'm able to read text in pdf again
It seems I don't have the ability to upload any files
I have the problem with every pdf. Regardless if I created them or I got them from different people
I encounter the same bug with Xubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and pdfshuffler 0.6.0
Here is my configuration:
$ uname -a
Linux draco-ultrabook 3.16.0-53-generic #72~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:17:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ apt-cache policy pdfshuffler
pdfshuffler:
Installed: 0.6.0-5
Candidate: 0.6.0-5
Version table:
*** 0.6.0-5 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Please provide a fix for this bug if the above modification in PDF_Renderer.run is the clue.
See screenshot for comparison of zoom with PDFShuffler and default PDF viewer.
same Kubuntu 15.10 shuffler 0.6.0
Thanks for the feedback. From what I see on the provided, screenshots, this is an expected behavior. Using a fixed resampling ratio, corresponding to a quite poor resolution was at that time a remedy for minimizing the consequences of a memory leak in python-poppler. As it has been more than two years since, I suppose most linux systems should now include a fixed version of python-poppler, so that this restriction can be removed in the next version of pdfshuffler. However I am not sure when this next version will be ready for release.
Any news on this?
This bug renders pdfshuffler unusable for me.
I have changed the resampling factor:
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/pdfshuffler?view=revision&revision=108
this should give some reasonable fixed resolution.