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.
