From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 15:09:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18334 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA18311 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:09:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12942; Wed, 23 Jul 97 18:09:11 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA17695; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:06:59 -0400 Message-Id: <19970723180658.52171@ct.picker.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:06:58 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: "Larry S. Marso" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ghostscript; visual quality of text References: <19970723131734.14706@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <19970723131734.14706@panix.com>; from Larry S. Marso on Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 01:17:34PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Larry S. Marso: |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). Hmm, just one. When you run ghostscript from the command line, e.g. gs whatever.ps does it look like it's loading all the fonts OK? Or does it say something like "can't find font X...using 'ugly' font". If not, run ktrace on gs and see where it's trying to pick the fonts up from. Can't speak for all versions but for 4.03, they're in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts. Randall Hopper