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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: problem with a simple pdf
From:       ian reinhart geiser <geiseri () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-10-25 15:33:30
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On Thursday 25 October 2001 11:21 am, Wilco Greven wrote:
> Crap, GV and KGhostView are both Ghostscript frontends. So if one shows
> a file fine, the other does as well, and vice versa.
>
Try generating a pdf on a mandrake box with Freetye2 and AA fonts installed 
from KWord.  The file created be unreadable completely in kghostview but will 
show some pages with gv.  Yes they are both front ends but kghostview seems 
to be an all or nothing deal, whereas gv will render what it can and then 
move on.

> I haven't seen a PDF file yet which KGhostView couldn't show, while
> Acrobat could. Of course Acrobat is a lot easier to use for navigating
> large files using with links and a document outline. But KGhostView will
> get those features too, eventually.
I do a fair amount with Macintosh and Windows systems.  I also generate a few 
100-500 page documents with a fair amount of picture content.  Most of these 
are from Doxygen though.  I have to generate the ps files and then convert 
them with distiller.  It seems that the ps2pdf pdf files are not as portable 
as they should be.  But as I said this is not a KDE problem, it is a lacking 
feature of Ghostscript.

- -ian reinhart geiser

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