From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 14:50:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17164 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsmarso.dialup.access.net (lsmarso.dialup.access.net [166.84.254.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17158 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lsmarso@localhost) by lsmarso.dialup.access.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA09824; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:48:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970723174808.51946@panix.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:48:08 -0400 From: "Larry S. Marso" To: jbrinkley@crosslogic.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghostscript; visual quality of text References: <852564DD.0062D32C.00@love.crosslogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <852564DD.0062D32C.00@love.crosslogic.com>; from jbrinkley@crosslogic.com on Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 02:02:35PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Uh, that'd be FreeBSD. Ghostscript included with the OS, not any of the alternatives in the ports. Would you recommend one? -- Larry S. Marso lsmarso@panix.com On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 02:02:35PM -0400, jbrinkley@crosslogic.com wrote: > > Which version of Ghostscript are you using, and with what OS? > > silverwing > > > > > > > "Larry S. Marso" on 07/23/97 01:17:34 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > cc: > Subject: ghostscript; visual quality of text > > I notice that ghostscript produces a pretty lousy image (in terms of > resolution) when I use it to display *.ps files of articles and manuals. > It is *much* worse than a similarly configured Linux box I had a year ago. > However, I note that xdvi displays much higher quality images, even of the > postscript fonts (while it can't display embedded postscript images, which > is why I'm trying to use ghostscript). > Any ideas? > -- > Larry S. Marso > lsmarso@panix.com > > > > >