Low quality of PDF rendering

aechallu · Post by **aechallu** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:54 am

Hi, I'm now seeing the benefit of reading PDFs straight from BE and taking notes in it. Yet, I'm experiencing two problems: low quality and slowness. I particularly experience this issue with JSTOR articles (downloaded in high quality resolution). I think that JSTOR recently switched to a different type of encoding that is more compact but slower in OSX, and I wonder if that's part of the problem.

While this may seem an OSX problem, it is interesting to point out that the same PDF has better quality and scrolls more smoothly in Skim, which I believe also relies on the same OSX-wide PDF kit.

Is there any workaround to these two issues in the foreseeable future? Are other users experiencing similar problems?

Post by **Jon** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:14 pm

Bookends uses the Mac OS X pdfkit, so I'm not sure why the rendering should be different. Also, many (most?) JSTOR articles I've seen are scanned, so the quality is often poor. That said, you can send me an example you've download that looks different in Bookends and Skim and I'll take a look.

Jon
Sonny Software