pdf-tools VS patchelf

Also https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/706

;; Fix blurry PDFs on MacOS. ;; From https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/51 (setq pdf-view-use-scaling t)

First things first, install pdf-tools, a great Emacs package for viewing pdfs. The default pdf viewer Docview is very limited so you should definitely get this package.

nov.el is pretty nice, although pdf-tools makes PDFs tolerable.

It looks enjoy pdf-tools got a new maintainer and he already changed the the melpa ⠀recipe, so you can get it via the package manager. I think this is a good development. My impression is, that he is new as an Emacs package maintainer, so please be kind and supportive, so he will stay on it for a while. :)

I have been using emacs pdf-tools lately and really enjoying it https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools

View, annotate PDFs and more with Emac's pdf-tools. There is also the built-in doc-view.

[pdf-tools](https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools) will let you do that.

I tried setting (add-hook 'pdf-view-mode-hook (lambda() (linum-mode -1))), which I found here. But it doesn't seem to do anything.

doc-view.el aside, there's https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools which may have its own set of issues.

I mean, we don't have to hack the elf loader if we just rewrite every elf binary using patchelf: https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf

The parent commenter is already suggesting "just run a regex", so it seems like a trivial extension to their simple solution to "just run patchelf on every binary on your system"

Patching paths in text files typically used substituteInPlace (including in cowsay). For dynamic libraries, patchelf is typically used.

Install patchelf.

Thank you! I followed the instruction here, but it looks like I didn't actually install it, because my pacman -Q patchelf did not find anything. Maybe I was missing a dependency. Also, it was late so I didn't pay attention to warnings at the time.

How does an article on NixOS talk about the `rpath` issue without also mentioning the `patchelf` utility that NixOS developers created to solve this issue? It's a small tool that lets you modify ELF executables and binaries. It's also the recommended way for NixOS users to modify binaries to work properly.

https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf

So install it? https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf

NixOS doesn't have stable paths to shared libraries like macOS or other linux distributions (and this is the core feature) and always need to patch elf for current paths ( https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf ).