On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 02:18:08PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Syed" == Syed Khader Vali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >>>>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:32:13 +0530 (IST), rajput g v be comp 56
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> rajput> hi, i got one file downloaded file.ps.Z , by using tar i
> rajput> removed the Z extension, so now it's file.ps, so what do i
> rajput> do know?
>
> Syed> use ps2pdf to convert it to pdf and then use acroread to view it.
>
> Tut, tut, Advocating a non-free solution, and a flakey one at
> that, rather than using rock solid Ghostview+gs? Fir the record,
> acroread often fails on my machines, erroring out, and otherwise
> failing to display correctly. For displaying ps, I have yet to see
> anything beat gv or ghostscript on a Linux box.
While I don't suggest doing ps2pdf and viewing it in acrobat, I find that
acrobat does a much nicer job of rendering the text in a readable manner
compared to gv + anti-aliased fonts + magnification.
Also, acrobat has a flaky scrolling behavior (try holding your down arrow
key for a few seconds and see acrobat take 15 mins to process your keystrokes
and refresh the screen). It also has a high startup time.
PDF is also very ubiquitous - all kinds of manuals and government forms
are published in PDF and I'm yet to see anyone beat Acrobat at that.
Also, if you're using latex, try pdflatex.
-Arun
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