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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
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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

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de