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

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: 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 solves

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 is already a

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 how AA

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 the

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 description

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 see - because

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 system. yes,

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 just sucks.

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

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,

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 ? ;-). you