[lug] gv questions

[D. Stimits]

Gary Hodges wrote:
> For the past two years I've used gv under SuSE with great success.  
> Recently I installed Kubuntu and gv is not operating as I expected.  
> Note that I have also discovered it doesn't run the way I expect under 
> Sarge either.
> The problem...  The postscript files I produce have a title on each page 
> that includes information I need to see while viewing the files.  gv is 
> now leaving this part off.  When I view the file it seems the upper 
> portion of the page has been cropped.  When I open the files with gs the 
> title is there.  It is also there with ggv.  gs and gv don't work well 
> for my needs though, so I'd like to figure out what the issue is with gv.
> 
> Also, gv is noticeably slower under Kubuntu than SuSE (same hardware).  
> I'm viewing some postscript files with 500 or pages.  I used to be able 
> to rapidly page through with <ENTER> or <BACKSPACE>, but now I have to 
> wait until an image is rendered before moving to the next (or previous) 
> page.  Is this an xfree86 vs xorg issue?  Would a faster video card 
> "fix" this?

This may not be an ideal answer, but you might want to try ps2pdf and 
then use a pdf app like kpdf or xpdf.

The gs command itself has a lot of cryptic options you might want to 
experiment with...I can't say in particular if any will help. Pay 
particular attention to fonts though, I'll guess that if its taking that 
long on one machine in comparison to another maybe it's trying to make 
substitutions. See if the fonts look exactly the same on both a faster 
machine and a slower machine (magnify a few characters by a very large 
amount).

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net