-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 05:30:22AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 21 September 2018 03:05:46 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > What's wrong with gv? [...]
> 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 [...] This sounds interesting in itself. Care to share a link? > 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. Yes, but that'd be the Right Unix Way (TM), not every app bringing along its little world and trampling on other's front gardens >;-) > 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. I'll do some research on gv if nobody bears me to it. Gv builds on ghostscript and /should/ do color (famous last words) cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlukwPQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaohwCfcNF0dqqYcNLe6nudK9mRPCGY 4BQAn0cnkoIikoSM1xWdzxOjuXsJ1G4a =RR44 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
