PS: a final appendum to my point 2b Perhaps a detail:
I just noticed that if you have View set to Automatically Resize and you
open a PDF file, then it first renders as in "Larger". If you then
"jiggle" the window size, ever so slightly, it immediately switches to a
rendering as in "Smaller". In other words, its first rendering is still as
in the case where the window is larger than the displayed PDF.
Please let me know if my screen shots are good enough to appreciate these
things. I took a shot of the window, rather than a box or the screen.
Perhaps I should have taken the entire screen to keep the shot the same
size when I changed the window size.
-Ivan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Ivan Werning <iwern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Follow the Hidden Preferences link, then go to Image Smoothing
>> (SKImageInterpolation).
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>
> I poked around. I have two things to report.
>
> 1. Playing around with that hidden option did not improve things. I tried
> options 0 1 2 3 and noticed no improvement: it always rendered sub
> optimally.
>
> 2. I have noticed something interesting. The rendering depends crucially
> not just on the zoom level, but also, for a given zoom level, on whether
> the window is sized large enough to get the background color in the window,
> outside the PDF page I mean. that is, the grey region in Skim. In
> particular,
>
> a. for a given zoom level if I resize my window the rendering suddenly
> shifts when I go to a width that is larger than the page to one that is
> smaller.
> Larger:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5458jwhwtn1ngu/Screenshot%202014-10-21%2010.57.39.png?dl=0
> Smaller:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8hsk3xpohdx5iqi/Screenshot%202014-10-21%2010.58.07.png?dl=0
> as you can see all I did was use my cursor to reduce the width from the
> right side of the window. The PDF displayed page did not move nor was it
> resized. But the rendering did change significantly.
>
> To be honest, both seem off to me, but the one where the window is smaller
> than the page looks better---perhaps even how it should/used to be, I am
> not sure really (still different than Preview). But the one where the
> window is larger than the PDF looks really blurry (as in low contrast) and
> blocky. Regardless, there is definitely a discrete change in the way things
> are rendering as one moves the window size as described.
>
> b. The same change happens if I click on "Automatically Resize". If I know
> change the size of the window I always get a rendering that I believe is
> identical (or at least very similar) to the "Smaller" above.
>
> I hope this clue might help find where the issue is.
>
> -Ivan
>
>
>
>
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