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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net> writes: |
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> For quite a while I've been frustrated with what I assume is some |
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> kind of kioslaves problem. Print-preview does not work - I just |
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> get a ghostscript output window and a few lines of what seems like |
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> meaningless detail: |
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> %%BoundingBox: 35 31 576 767 |
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> %%HiResBoundingBox: 35.549999 31.550554 575.027982 766.079977 |
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This is not meaningless, but it seems that your previewer calls gs |
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with wrong arguments. |
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Try: |
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gs -q -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE somefile.ps |
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The bbox device calculates the bounding box of the content of the |
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page and for some reason nobody knows sends it output to STDERR. |
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It is supposed to be used by programs which convert ps to eps. |
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Previewers should use -sDEVICE=x11 or -sDEVICE=x11alpha instead. |
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The latter performs antialiasing. |
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To find out how your previewer calls ghostscript you can try this: |
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* temporarily replace /usr/bin/gs by a little shell script: |
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#!/bin/sh |
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echo $0 "$@" |
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* start the previewer in an xterm so that the output of the script |
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will appear in the terminal. |
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You'll hopefully see with which arguments gs is called by the |
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previewer. I don't have KDE installed but the script works with gv. |
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BTW, gv allows you to configure this in the resources, see |
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/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/ . I suppose that the KDE previewer works |
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similar as gv, so gv's texinfo manual provides some information about |
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the arguments. Try: |
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info gv |
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On the other hand, if they want to port KDE to Windows, I suppose that |
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they don't put their config files into X11 directories but I'm sure |
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you know that much better than me. |
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> Printing itself works fine. |
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Yes, the printing system is a different thing and has it's own config |
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files. |
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> Likewise, I cannot view ps/pdf files in knoqueror, but pdf files |
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> work just fine with kpdf (same sorts of pop-up messages). |
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> kghostview doesn't work (generates messages like the above). |
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> Re-emerging kghostview doesn't seem to help. |
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kpdf is derived from xpdf and doesn't use ghostscript. Newer versions |
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might be based on poppler, but this doesn't matter in this context. |
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It seems that kghostview and konqueror share some code and/or probably |
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config files. This makes a lot of sense. |
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Regards, |
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Reinhard |
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