Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:39:14 -0400 From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghostscript; visual quality of text Message-ID: <19970723183914.43842@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <19970723180658.52171@ct.picker.com>; from Randall Hopper on Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 06:06:58PM -0400 References: <19970723131734.14706@panix.com> <19970723180658.52171@ct.picker.com>
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Good question! Here's the output. Yup, butt ugly. lsmarso@lsmarso>gs *ps Initializing... done. Ghostscript 2.6.2 (4/19/95) Copyright (C) 1990-1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading Helvetica-Bold font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/phvb.gsf... 259192 239118 0 done. Loading Helvetica font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/phvr.gsf... 299192 281904 0 done. Loading Times-Italic font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ptmri.gsf... 339192 331407 0 done. Loading Courier font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ncrr.gsf... 399192 390719 0 done. Loading Symbol font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/psyr.gsf... 439192 429892 0 done. Loading Times-Roman font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ptmr.gsf... 479192 474082 0 done. Loading Times-Bold font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ptmb.gsf... 539192 528445 0 done. >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 06:06:58PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote: > Larry S. Marso: > |I notice that ghostscript produces a pretty lousy image (in terms of > |resolution) when I use it to display *.ps files of articles and manuals. > |It is *much* worse than a similarly configured Linux box I had a year ago. > | > |However, I note that xdvi displays much higher quality images, even of the > |postscript fonts (while it can't display embedded postscript images, which > |is why I'm trying to use ghostscript). > > Hmm, just one. When you run ghostscript from the command line, e.g. > > gs whatever.ps > > does it look like it's loading all the fonts OK? Or does it say something > like "can't find font X...using 'ugly' font". > > If not, run ktrace on gs and see where it's trying to pick the fonts up > from. Can't speak for all versions but for 4.03, they're in > /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts. > > Randall Hopper
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