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When I view the same file in adobe and pdf-xchange, the one in adobe is sharper, darker, easier to read, while little bit blurry and greyish in pdf-xchange.
The difference is not big, but enough to make longer reading less exhaustive in adobe.

Can you see the difference?
Would it be possible to set a different level of "smoothing text" or maybe making a text darker?
It's not a big deal, maybe it's not worth bothering.
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Post by Ivan - Tracker Software »

There is such option but it is not available via UI interface. You can try to change it via the registry. Under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tracker Software\PDFViewer\PageDisplay

please make DWORD value TextGamma with value in range from 250 to 8000 (default value 1000).
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Post by quant »

thanks, works great (I found 850 to be just right)
Last edited by quant on Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Pleased all is well :)
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Post by drewkeller »

Does this still work?

I don't have a /PageDisplay key in the above registry location. If I add one (and the TextGamma item), the key gets deleted when I close the PDF viewer. I'm using PDF Xchange Viewer version 2.0 build 0036.
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why not adding this option directly in ui interface?
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Post by quant »

drewkeller wrote:Does this still work?
yes, it does (I'm also using the latest build 36)
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Where can I change the setting in the portable version?
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The portable version doesn't write any settings to the Windows registry for you to change — as I understand it, that's why it is portable.
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I know what portable means. Maybe it could be possible to change something in the settings file (settings.dat ?).
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For now there are no way to make dirrect editing settings stored into settings.dat file.
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