Re: full color ghostview ?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Arno wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:52:02AM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> > > This sounds like a font problem. Do you have the font packages
> > > installed for ghostscript?
> >
> > No, this is not the font problem, fonts look ok (please, look at my
> > original post).
> > The problem is that gv (and the family) produce horrible dithered images
> > and do it very slowly. It seems that ghostscript's x11 device is to blame.
> > So I was wondering if there is alternative pastscript viewer with a
> > similar capabilities, which does not suffer from the dithering.
> > Xv looks good, but it does not support multiple pages.
> > If you've seen GSview for windows - this is how it should look like.
>
> >From what I've read, you want anti-aliasing. With gs use the command
> line switch -sDEVICE=x11alpha instead of the normal (implicit)
> -sDEVICE=x11. In gv you can enable anti-aliasing through a menu option
> (State -> Antialiasing). AFAIK, ghostview has no support for enabling
> anti-aliasing.
Tried that. No difference. It only has effect on things like lines, fonts,
but on the representation of color. What would have worked, if a
postscript viewer created a bitmap (with appropriate ghostscript device)
and then displayed it. I guess that how GSview works. Does such thing
exist for Linux ?
Sergey.
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