In message <[email protected]> Chris Gransden <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, > Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2. Why the switch from loading into GSView to Paint? > !PDF now does the conversion itself so GView is no longer required. True, there is much less of a reason to use GView now that !PDF can render pages in bitmap mode with embedded fonts and shading patterns. Still, there are probably files out there that GView/Ghostscript renders better than !PDF and vice versa, so that button would not be entirely useless now. That said, I have never been quite happy with the way this button worked. It sort of implied that the PDF file would be passed to GView, but that did not happen. What was passed to GView was !PDF's attempt at converting the page to PostScript, and in particular for files that !PDF did not render correctly that conversion often introduced errors, so this mechanism was not quite as useful as it could have been. Colin and I discussed a better mechanism for passing true PDF pages from !PDF to GView but we never completed this. >> 3. Is is not possible for PDF itself to display these documents >> correctly? > That's what i'm aiming to do. Displaying the page in !Paint is just a > stopgap until I get it working. There will be a choice to display the page > as bitmap or vector. That would be great. Then we would be finally back to the functionality of the discontinued PDFView (minus PDFView's annoying side effect of freezing my Iyonix each time I use it, unless I am very careful not to click in the wrong place). Martin -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Wuerthner MW Software [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ GCCSDK mailing list [email protected] Bugzilla: http://www.riscos.info/bugzilla/index.cgi List Info: http://www.riscos.info/mailman/listinfo/gcc Main Page: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK
