pdfviewer - scaling the output

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Cogitor
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pdfviewer - scaling the output

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Just wanted to point out some comments on the way the pdf output is zoomed on the screen. The method seems to be scaling os the pixels, so that one can see quick degradation of rendering quality when zooming in or zooming out from the specified resolution (by default, 100 dpi).
I would like to suggest an alternative method, which could be implemented in the lsplugin.ini file as an additional parameter. This method could be the redrawing of the output at a different resolution, so that, if you start viewing a pdf page at 100 dpi and wanted to magnify the area, you could change to 144, 200 dpi, and so on, decreasing the resolution when zooming out. Might be this comes at the price of extra processing, but the computer speed is not a problem nowadays :)
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