Re: Kghostview might need gs
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:22:24AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote:
> With kghostview installed and no longer requiring gs, I removed gs from
> my system. I don't use pdf/ps all that often anyway. Today I notice a
> reproducible segfault trying to view pdf files. I filed a bug with bt
> to bugs.kde.org.
>
> Now I went lurking through the source for kghostview, and it most
> definitely has routines to call gs by name. Makes me think maybe
> kghostview cannot provide postscript-viewer, but instead should rely on
> gs or another viewer?
>
> Hope I'm wrong, like all the options debian gives, but I like to keep
> the number of packages installed to a minimum.
looks like it does need gs...
"This is Tim Theisen's Ghostview program ported to the K
Desktop Environment. Ghostview is used to view PostScript
documents on Unix X11 systems. It requires Alladin
Ghostcript to actually perform rendering. KGhostview also
uses the Qt toolkit."
Ivan
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