Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-10-01 Thread crusius
In reply to Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/psv >> to view PS. I'll dowload that ASAP ... > >O.K. - did that. A few comments: > >1. ggi_visual_t *visual is wrong. It should be ggi_visual_t visual . > I am getting type-conversion warnings. ggi_visual_t i

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-10-01 Thread Andreas Beck
Hi, > yes, but i think you didn't get my point. as far as i know gs needs to > be compiled with the driver itself, that is, drivers are not > dinamically loadable --- which for me means that gs is not > `sufficiently modular.' this means that either you reinstall gs by > yourself (which only solv

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-10-01 Thread Andreas Beck
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/psv > to view PS. I'll dowload that ASAP ... O.K. - did that. A few comments: 1. ggi_visual_t *visual is wrong. It should be ggi_visual_t visual . I am getting type-conversion warnings. ggi_visual_t is already a pointer - no need to double it. This is

Re: Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-10-01 Thread Andreas Beck
> hours and two cold reboots (ggi is quite nasty if something goes wrong > in the console). That shouldn't be. What driver are you using ? fbcon ? In that case, make sure you have MagicSysRq compiled in the kernel, that it is enabled (/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq) and you know how to use it (/usr/src/

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-30 Thread crusius
In reply to Stefan Seefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> that would be the ideal situation, but would require modifying gs >> itself. i don't have time for that, but it's a more than worthwile >> goal. > >not gs, but a gs driver. That's the main idea behind every modular >

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-30 Thread Stefan Seefeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In reply to Stefan Seefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> with psv i have to (a) dump the page contents to ghostscript, which > >> is reasonably fast, (b) wait for ghostscript to process the page, > >> and (c) get the page back. step (c) kills everything - as you can > >> s

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-30 Thread crusius
In reply to Stefan Seefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> with psv i have to (a) dump the page contents to ghostscript, which >> is reasonably fast, (b) wait for ghostscript to process the page, >> and (c) get the page back. step (c) kills everything - as you can >> see - because loading the big page desc

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-30 Thread Stefan Seefeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > version 1.2 has anti-aliasing implemented already via ghostscript. > it consists of (simplifying a *lot*) rendering the page at a higher > resolution and averaging the values for the lower resolution. > > regarding speed, xdvi is a completely different beast, being at

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-30 Thread crusius
In reply to "Lee Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> i just released a postscript/pdf viewer for ggi, i use it primarily to >> view files under the console. the name is `psv', and it is at >> sourceforge >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/psv > >I got your program. I like it a lot. Andreas Beck

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-30 Thread Lee Brown
> i just released a postscript/pdf viewer for ggi, i use it primarily to > view files under the console. the name is `psv', and it is at > sourceforge > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/psv I got your program. I like it a lot. Andreas Beck mentioned the anti aliasing. I am curious as to ho

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Cesar Crusius wrote: > >> a few months ago i posted an email asking for a dvi viewer, a ps > >> viewer, and a web browser for ggi. i wrote two of them. isn't > >> somebody going to write a web browser :) ? i'm sure i'll not... > > > >But well: A Webbrowser for LibGGI would really rock. Netscape j

Re: Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-25 Thread Cesar Crusius
In reply to Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> otherwise new versions will be posted as i add features i actually >> need. > >How can I convince you, that you need anti aliasing ? What >interesting document could I send to you, written in a tiny font, >that's readable only with antialiasing ? ;-

Re: announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-25 Thread Andreas Beck
> i just released a postscript/pdf viewer for ggi, i use it primarily to > view files under the console. the name is `psv', and it is at > sourceforge > http://sourceforge.net/projects/psv > it does the trick, but right now only displays black and white. Oh ... no antialiasing ? Totally useless

announce: postscript/pdf viewer

2000-09-25 Thread Cesar Crusius
i just released a postscript/pdf viewer for ggi, i use it primarily to view files under the console. the name is `psv', and it is at sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/psv it does the trick, but right now only displays black and white. for me it is sufficient, and i consider the versio