Re: ANN: ViewIt 0.5

[stefan]

Hi,

>> Please let me know if this application is usefull to you or if you
>> have any suggestions. I would appriciate any feedback..

>
> Well, great work ! I really live the UI, it's nice and clean.
> but... I have a problem reading pdf !
nice to hear :-)

> it seems that gs crash, then the NSPipe is closed and then
> ViewIt crash too...
not so nice

>
> --> GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1#
I'am using Ghoscript Version 7.05, maybe you can send me copy of
your pdf so that i can test too? What version of GNUstep are
you using?

> but if I simply call gs on the pdf, it works ...
> what are the parameters you pass to gs ? it's perhaps the
> problem here..
The options are the following
-dNOPAUSE
-sOutputFile=somewhere-on-your-hd
-r144x144 where 144 is replaces with the current resolution
-sDEVICE=tiff24nc
-dTextAlphaBits=4
-dQUIET
-dSAFER

These options are set in the Ghostscript class which is located under
pdfps/objc/Ghostscript.m. Look at the method startGsIfNeeded, there
you will find the options. Maybe i should make the configurable via
the Preferences dialog... You can tweak them by modifying this method if
you want. But remember that the stuff in pdfps is build into a separate
library. So you either have to include <ViewIt>/pdfps/obj in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH or reinstall the library (type make install in pdfps) to
let changes take effect.

ciao
Stefan Kleine Stegemann