Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:48:45 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> Cc: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ghostscript; visual quality of text Message-ID: <19970724084845.00240@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <19970723183914.43842@panix.com>; from "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> on Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 06:39:14PM -0400 References: <19970723131734.14706@panix.com> <19970723180658.52171@ct.picker.com> <19970723183914.43842@panix.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Larry, I'd suggest, that you post a sample .ps file and a xmag xwd.gz file (X-Windows window dump), and explain, what you find ugly about it. I myself often see certain font types appear 'ugly' when scaled due to rounding errors (?) (or integer truncation) and I saw this often also in Web documents in netscape. Have you tried ghostview - a 'wrapper' around gs. (it allows you to magnify the picture for better readability). [ gs 2.62 output deleted] > > On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 06:06:58PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote: > > 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 -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19970724084845.00240>