On Friday 21 September 2018 03:05:46 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:15:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Considering the src, and licenseing, thats not surprising. > > ghostscript was written to get away from that, was gpl'd but no > > support from Artifex, but has since been relegated to print only > > functions, stripping out what was an excellent at the time 20 years > > back, a truely excellent screen renderer and a page file at a time > > printer driver [...] > > What's wrong with gv? That's ghostview's younger sister, and (as > ghostview) a GUI around ghostscript's X backend. Displays pdf and > postscript fine around here. > Probably a good question Tomas, but I've no recent experience with it. Installed now, and looking for a pdf to look at, I found the phd thesis of Sonja MacFarland, dated in 2001, that probably covers some of the math in the LinuxCNC trajectory planner, which was last updated about a year ago.
Very interesting reading about properly driving a robot for both smooth motions and minimum wasted time. Several hundred pages of method and math that exceeds my math abilities. I see it has "print all", and "print-marked" options that use lpr, so one would have to setup some defaults to make it use the correct printer, and printer profile in a more than one printer environment. Getting that /right/ might take some experimentation. It properly handled the graphics symbols commonly used in math, but of what I looked at, no color graphics, so let me look at something I am quite familiar with. But I wasn't able to navigate its broken directory reader in its open selector to gain access to those docs. Thats a showstopper. The slider that should allow one to scan a directory tree alternates between a small marker one can drag with a mouse, but on a second drag attempt it jumps to full height of the buttons space, and allows no more scanning of the /usr/share/doc directory while still in the a's. Total show stopper here if it's incapable of navigating a directory with thousands of entries. > Cheers > -- t Take care Tomas. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
