[lug] gv questions

[Gary Hodges]

Hi David (All),

David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Gary Hodges wrote:
> [...]
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Paper size maybe?  Sounds like a default that's been changed on you. 
> You could compare the versions between SuSE and Kubuntu and perhaps 
> look at the source packages for different configure settings.


OK, that was a good suggestion.  When I run it with --media=letter I see 
my title.  I no longer have SuSE installed so I can't easily compare the two


>> 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?
>
>
> I doubt a faster card would help.  I doubt it's xfree86 vs. xorg.  Do 
> you have the same amount of free memory under both?  Were you using 
> KDE on SuSE?  If something else is using all your memory now that 
> would slow down big documents.


Yes, I was using KDE with SuSE.  No idea about free memory.  For what 
its worth I just ran the same thing on two other machines:

Opteron 244 SMP w/4GB RAM Sarge 64 install
Athlon MP 2000+ SMP w/2GB RAM Sarge install

My Machine is a single Athlon XP 2600+ w/512 MB RAM Kubuntu 5.10 install

My machine and the Athlon the speed is the same.  The Opteron seems to 
render each page at least twice as fast.

> For both of these I'd google them (that will pick up Ubuntu forums as 
> well as the Debian and gv mailing lists).  You might check the Debian 
> bug tracker too (and the Kubuntu one, if they have a separate one).  
> Or ask on the gv lists.


I have posted on the Ubuntu mailing list about this and one person has 
replied with similar speed questions, though with different 
applications.  I'll try the gv mailing list if it is available to me.  
Funny thing is as I page through my ps doc I'm wondering if I really am 
remembering how quickly SuSE and gv used to render each page.  I feel 
almost certain it was much faster, but at the same time I don't _trust_ 
my memory as much as I used to, though I think it is as _good_ as ever.

Gary