Re: Pdf files shown at postage-stamp size

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On Apr  8, 2008, at  1:53 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Dear Evince People:
>
> I'm just a happy Evince user, new to the list--great app!
>
> Well, OK, I was happy, until I upgraded an F8 box to F9-beta/rawhide a  
> day
> or two ago.  Now evince shows every pdf doc at postage-stamp size, even  
> at
> 400%.  The page is smaller than the thumbnail in the left pane, and about
> the same size as the Nautilus thumbnail.
>
> Current evince is 2.22.1, but downgrading to 2.20 (also poppler) didn't
> fix it.  I haven't found issues with any other apps.  Is this some  
> obscure
> system setting?

Following up on my own post: evince uses gdk_screen_get_{width,height}_mm  
in calculating the display's dpi, and the Gnome docs note that "on some X  
servers this value will not be correct".  They're right!  For my generic  
lcd, they return 40959x6552 mm.  That's what--the size of a tennis court?

Replacing the "intel" driver by "vesa" fixes it.  The joys of experimental  
drivers :)

Peter

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