On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:27PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > 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?
Thanks, Jon, for your reply. Indeed, it was ghostscript. Also, your post tells me to be more precise. I'll do my best next time! David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
