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Bug 106131 - Antialiasing does not work with PDF files
Antialiasing does not work with PDF files
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GGV
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
1.99.x
Other FreeBSD
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Jaka Mocnik
Jaka Mocnik
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-14 23:45 UTC by Mike Irwin
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
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Description Mike Irwin 2003-02-14 23:45:48 UTC 
GGV 1.99.98 antialiasing does not work correctly with PDF files. 
Ghostscript version is 7.05.

I've tried using the following antialiasing options:

-sDEVICE=x11alpha
-dNOPLATFONTS -sDEVICE=x11alpha
-sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4
-dNOPLATFONTS -sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4

I'm able to view the same PDF files with correct antialiasing using gv
3.5.8, though.

I've put up a couple of screenshots at <http://ampa.pair.com/~mikeirw/ggv/>.
Comment 1 Jaka Mocnik 2003-02-15 17:29:50 UTC 
GGV's PDF support is currently not very good (since ggv first converts
PS to PostScript and then renders it - the bad quality you see is due
to GhostScript's bad conversion) - I am aware of these problems, but
will probably never fix them: they way things are going right now, I
will probably drop PDF support from GGV completely since gpdf will be
used for PDF viewing in the next gnome release (2.4). gpdf and ggv
will probably even share the same user interface. gpdf renders PDFs
natively (using xpdf codebase) and does a much better job of it!

I suggest you use gpdf for viewing pdfs.