Re: xpdf

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

David Fokkema <fokkema@nat.vu.nl> writes:

> Is Acrobat Reader _free_? Or can you download it free of charge. To me,
> that is a bit of a difference. Call me anything you like, but I like
> _free_ software.

It's free-to-download, which is much different from DFSG-free.

> But, since I'm not afraid of compiling things (I got solaris useable with
> a _lot_ of GNU tools at work): is the latest version of xpdf able to
> anti-aliase eps figures? That was the whole point.

The sample config file in /usr/share/doc/xpdf/sample-xpdfrc.gz (on
unstable, with xpdf_2.01-3) gives some hints: it uses t1lib and/or
freetype to do antialiasing, but I think these only do antialiasing of
text (and then maybe only with TrueType fonts, but maybe not).

Looking at some things I have around, I get antialiased text both from
normal TeX fonts (Computer Modern) and normal PostScript fonts
(Palatino, etc.)  I get no antialiasing on normal line drawings (in
PostScript, moveto...lineto...stroke commands); I *do* get
antialiasing on line drawings that I've written inside LaTeX, since
those get rendered using TeX fonts and so a font engine gets at it.

Obvious poking around doesn't suggest a way for gv or ghostview to do
full-screen mode.  You might be able to put something together quickly
that embeds gs; if it were me and I cared quite enough, I'd spend an
hour or so trying to figure out if a quick hack was possible.  Good
luck...

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