http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3513
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-07 19:23 ------- Please close this bug, it is no more valid. ggv is actually removing pdf support; it is giving way to gpdf. Please use gpdf in the future. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: Viewing large pdfs in ggv is very slow to startup, because ggv is having ghostscript convert the entire pdf over to ps to view the thing. This causes ggv to seem as if it hasn't been started or has stalled when opening large pdfs. It also eats a lot of disk space. Example, opening one of Intels Instruction Set Reference manuals takes minutes. The alternative is to change a setting in ggv to have it convert each page as needed. There is no documentation for this in ghostscript except in "/usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib/pdf2dsc.ps" -- thats right, just open it with a text editor. The following setting in ggv "Edit->Preferences->GGV Preferences->Ghostscript->Convert PDF to PS" should be changed to "/usr/bin/gs -dNODISPLAY -dQUIET -sDSCname=%s -sPDFname=%s pdf2dsc.ps -c quit" This way opening large pdfs is much faster(a second or two, not minutes) and doesn't use potentially 50MB or so to view the pdf.
