Re: ghostscript woes
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:17:34PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Since more than a week now, gv doesn't anti-alias my postscript files as
> beautifully as before: it uses less grays and more black. If I view my
> LaTeX generated dvi files they look just as beautiful as they ever did.
View the dvi files in what? converted to ps first, or via advi/kdvi?
If you look in 'ghostscript' options in gv, what do you find for the
antialias device? I presume that under gv options, anti alias is still
selected. Here's what my three ps programs give me:
gv -dNOPLATFONTS -sDEVICE=x11alpha
ggv -dNOPLATFONTS -sDEVICE=x11alpha
kghostview -sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=2 \
-dMaxBitmap=10000000
-sDEVICE is still a legal option; x11 and x11alpha are both listed as
available devices with --help... here are my package versions:
ii gs-gpl 8.01-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript...
ii gv 3.5.8-31 A PostScript and PDF viewer for X...
ii gnome-gv 2.4.1-2 GNOME PostScript viewer...
ii kghostview 3.2.2-1 PostScript viewer for KDE...
> This is irritating, since I use gv a lot. Since ggv also suffers from
> this problem, I think it is actually ghostscript which causes it.
Most likely.
> Furthermore, ps2epsi no longer resizes the bounding box of my graphics,
> while eps2eps somehow turns my scalable LaTeX fonts in bitmaps. Why?
No clue here...
> gv doesn't seem to be able to render a lot of pdfs from the net
> correctly these days. Since I never required acrobat before this all
> started, I'm suspecting something is broken here as well.
In what way does it fail?
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Jon Dowland
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